From 78d52305f62df6f6485f43e5d4f3d8e41be5f5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: djcb Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:55:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * update cheatsheet with some 0.9.8 tricks --- www/cheatsheet.org | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/cheatsheet.org b/www/cheatsheet.org index 23f35491..873f2bab 100644 --- a/www/cheatsheet.org +++ b/www/cheatsheet.org @@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ ** Indexing your mail #+html:
 $ mu index
- + If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly: #+html:
 $ mu index --maildir=~/MyMaildir
-*** 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 @@ -40,24 +40,33 @@ If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly: *** unread messages about things starting with 'soc' (soccer, society, socrates, ...) #+html:
  $ mu find 'subject:soc*' flag:unread
- - 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:
  $ mu find 'mime:image/*' 
+ (since mu version 0.9.8) + +*** finding messages with 'milk' in one of its text parts (such as text-based attachments): +#+html:
  $ mu find embed:milk 
+ (since mu version 0.9.8) + *** finding /all/ your messages #+html:
  $ mu find ""
(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:
 $ mu cfind john
=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: @@ -68,7 +77,7 @@ If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly: =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: @@ -94,20 +103,21 @@ If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly: non-empty. #+html:
 $ mu find --color capibara
- + (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:
 $ mu view ~/Maildir/inbox/cur/message24
- + You can also use =--color= to get colorized output, and =--summary= to get a summary of the message contents instead of the whole thing. @@ -123,7 +133,7 @@ If =mu= did not guess the right Maildir, you can set it explicitly: 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,