After building the database, it's easy to search for messages. For example:
- $ mu find bird bee -- if you want to find message with either one of those, you can do: -
- $ mu find 'bird OR bee' -- + get all mails about birds and bees (and similar words)
+ $ mu find bird bee+ if you want to find message with either one of those, you can do:
+ $ mu find 'bird OR bee'
- $ mu find from:smith subject:capybara -+ get all Smith's mails with 'capybara' in the subject line
+ $ mu find from:smith subject:capybara
- $ mu find maildir:/archive cc:mary -+ get the mails in the archive folder where Mary was Cc'd
+ $ mu find maildir:/archive cc:mary
+ $ mu find flag:attach date:2w..now+
+ $ mu find prio:high date:2010-03..2010-04+
Searches are case-insensitive as well as 'accent insensitive' (version 0.9 + and up); so angStroM will match Ångström. +
The way to express the searches may be a bit cryptic at first, but easy to learn (in the author's biased opinion); the mu manpages discuss syntax and -usage, and contain examples. +usage. There is also the mu-easy man-page which contains a lot of +simple examples to get you going.
NOTE: while searching from the command-line is sometimes useful, mu is most easily used when integrated with an e-mail program. The documentation includes @@ -113,8 +121,27 @@ Unix/Linux-based systems, and uses the maildirs +
The longer-term goal is to have a bit more complete graphical user-interface; +for the time being, mug seems to work fine. + +
If you have defined bookmarks, mug will show them in the toolbar on the left +side of the mug-window, as can be seen in the screenshot. +