* update cheatsheet with some 0.9.8 tricks

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djcb 2012-01-06 14:55:31 +02:00
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** Indexing your mail
#+html:<pre> $ mu index</pre>
If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly:
#+html:<pre> $ mu index --maildir=~/MyMaildir</pre>
*** Excluding directories from indexing
*** Excluding directories from indexing
If you want to exclude certain directories from being indexed (for example,
directories with spam-messages), put a file called =.noindex= in the directory
to exlude, and it will be ignored when indexing (including its children)
** Finding messages
After you have indexed your messages, you can search them. Here are some
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*** unread messages about things starting with 'soc' (soccer, society, socrates, ...)
#+html:<pre> $ mu find 'subject:soc*' flag:unread</pre>
Note, the '*' only works at the /end/ of a search term.
Note, the '*' only works at the /end/ of a search term, and you need to
quote it or the shell will interpret it before =mu= sees it.
(searching using the '*' wildcard is available since mu 0.9.6)
*** finding messages with images as attachment
#+html:<pre> $ mu find 'mime:image/*' </pre>
(since mu version 0.9.8)
*** finding messages with 'milk' in one of its text parts (such as text-based attachments):
#+html:<pre> $ mu find embed:milk </pre>
(since mu version 0.9.8)
*** finding /all/ your messages
#+html:<pre> $ mu find ""</pre>
(since mu version 0.9.7)
** Finding contacts
Contacts (names + email addresses) are cached separately, and can be
searched with =mu cfind= (after your messages have been indexed):
*** all contacts with 'john' in either name or e-mail address
*** all contacts with 'john' in either name or e-mail address
#+html:<pre> $ mu cfind john</pre>
=mu cfind= takes a regular expression for matching.
You can export the contact information to a number of formats for use in
e-mail clients. For example:
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=bbdb= and =csv= (comma-separated values).
** Retrieving attachments from messages
You can retrieve attachments from messages using =mu extract=, which takes a
message file as an argument. Without any other arguments, it displays the
MIME-parts of the message. You can then get specific attachments:
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non-empty.
#+html:<pre> $ mu find --color capibara</pre>
(since =mu= version 0.9.6)
** Integration with mail clients
The =mu-find= man page contains examples for =mutt= and =wanderlust=.
The =mu-find= man page contains examples for =mutt= and =wanderlust=. And
since version 0.9.8, =mu= includes its own e-mail client for =emacs=, =mu4e=.
** Viewing messages
** Viewing specific messages
You can view message contents with =mu view=; it does not use the database
and simply takes a message file as it's argument:
#+html:<pre> $ mu view ~/Maildir/inbox/cur/message24</pre>
You can also use =--color= to get colorized output, and =--summary= to get a
summary of the message contents instead of the whole thing.
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Note that we use ='l'=, so the returned message paths will be quoted. This is
useful if you have maildirs with spaces in their names.
For further processing, also the ~--format=(xml|sexp)~ can be useful. For
example,