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* Welcome to mu!
With the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance of
e-mail messages in our daily work-flow, it is very important to be able to
quickly deal with all that - in particular, to instantly find that one
important e-mail you need right now.
For that, *mu* was created. *mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages
stored in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format, on Unix-like systems. *mu*'s main purpose is to
help you to find the messages you need, quickly; in addition, it allows you to
view messages, extract attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
cheatsheet]] for some examples. Mu's source code is available [[https://github.com/djcb/mu][in github]], and
there is the [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mu-discuss]] mailing list.
*mu* now comes with an emacs-based e-mail client (=mu4e=), a simple GUI
(=mug=) and bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language.
** Features
- fast indexing for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]], Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, subject, date-range,
size, priority, words in message, flags (signed, encrypted, new, replied,
has-attachment,...), message-id, maildir, tags, attachment (name,
mime-type, text) and more
- command-line tools for indexing, searching, viewing, adding/removing
messages, extracting attachments, exporting/searching address lists,
creating maildirs, ...
- accent/case normalization - so /angstrom/ matches /Ångström/
- can be integrated with other e-mail clients such as [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]] and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
- [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], an emacs-based e-mail client based on =mu= (see screenshot).
- [[file:mu-guile.html][mu-guile]]: [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][guile 2.0]] bindings that allow for scripting, advanced processing
of your data, and doing all kinds of statistics
- fully documented (man pages, info pages)
** News
- 2012-07-01: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.5.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.5]]; more fixes, improvements (see the link).
- 2012-05-08: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.4.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.4]] with even more improvements (the link has
all the details)
- 2012-04-06: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.3.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.3]], with many improvements, fixes. See the
link for details. *NOTE*: existing =mu= and =mu4e= users are recommended to
execute =mu index --rebuild= after installation.
- 2012-03-11: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name=mu-0.9.8.2.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.2]], with a number of fixes and improvements,
see the link for the details.
- 2012-02-17: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.1.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.1]], which has a number of improvements to the
0.9.8 release: add mark as read/unread, colorize cited message parts,
better handling of text-based message parts, documentation fixes,
documentation updates and a few fixes here and there
- 2012-02-09: moved the mu source code repository [[https://github.com/djcb/mu][to Github]].
- 2012-01-31: finally, [[http://mu0.googlecode.com/files/mu-0.9.8.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8]] is available. It comes with an emacs-based
e-mail client, [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], and much improved [[file:mu-guile.html][guile bindings]]. Furthermore, It adds
search for attachment mime type and search inside any text part of a
message, more tests, improvements in many parts of the code.
- 2011-09-03: mu 0.9.7 is now available; compared to the -pre version there
are a few small changes; the most important one is a fix specifically for
running mu on MacOS.
- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
** Development & download
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packagage for your distribution, or if you want the latest release, you can
[[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/list][download mu source packages]] from Google Code. In case you find a bug, or have
a feature requests, please use the [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list][issue tracker]].
If you'd like to work with the mu source code, you can find it [[https://github.com/djcb/mu][in Github]];
also, see the notes on [[https://github.com/djcb/mu/blob/master/HACKING][HACKING]] the mu source code.
There's also a [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mailing list]].
** License & Copyright
*mu* was designed and implemented by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema, and is Free
Software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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* Welcome to mu!
With the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance of
e-mail messages in our daily work-flow, it is very important to be able to
quickly deal with all that - in particular, to instantly find that one
important e-mail you need right now.
For that, *mu* was created. *mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages
stored in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format, on Unix-like systems. *mu*'s main purpose is to
help you to find the messages you need, quickly; in addition, it allows you to
view messages, extract attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
cheatsheet]] for some examples. Mu's source code is available [[https://github.com/djcb/mu][in github]], and
there is the [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mu-discuss]] mailing list.
*mu* now comes with an emacs-based e-mail client (=mu4e=), a simple GUI
(=mug=) and bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language.
** Features
- fast indexing for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]], Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, subject, date-range,
size, priority, words in message, flags (signed, encrypted, new, replied,
has-attachment,...), message-id, maildir, tags, attachment (name,
mime-type, text) and more
- command-line tools for indexing, searching, viewing, adding/removing
messages, extracting attachments, exporting/searching address lists,
creating maildirs, ...
- accent/case normalization - so /angstrom/ matches /Ångström/
- can be integrated with other e-mail clients such as [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]] and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
- [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], an emacs-based e-mail client based on =mu= (see screenshot).
- [[file:mu-guile.html][mu-guile]]: [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][guile 2.0]] bindings that allow for scripting, advanced processing
of your data, and doing all kinds of statistics
- fully documented (man pages, info pages)
** News
- 2012-07-01: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.5.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.5]]; more fixes, improvements (see the link).
- 2012-05-08: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.4.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.4]] with even more improvements (the link has
all the details)
- 2012-04-06: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.3.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.3]], with many improvements, fixes. See the
link for details. *NOTE*: existing =mu= and =mu4e= users are recommended to
execute =mu index --rebuild= after installation.
- 2012-03-11: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name=mu-0.9.8.2.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.2]], with a number of fixes and improvements,
see the link for the details.
- 2012-02-17: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.1.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.1]], which has a number of improvements to the
0.9.8 release: add mark as read/unread, colorize cited message parts,
better handling of text-based message parts, documentation fixes,
documentation updates and a few fixes here and there
- 2012-02-09: moved the mu source code repository [[https://github.com/djcb/mu][to Github]].
- 2012-01-31: finally, [[http://mu0.googlecode.com/files/mu-0.9.8.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8]] is available. It comes with an emacs-based
e-mail client, [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], and much improved [[file:mu-guile.html][guile bindings]]. Furthermore, It adds
search for attachment mime type and search inside any text part of a
message, more tests, improvements in many parts of the code.
- 2011-09-03: mu 0.9.7 is now available; compared to the -pre version there
are a few small changes; the most important one is a fix specifically for
running mu on MacOS.
- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
** Development & download
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