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* Welcome to mu!
Given the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance
of e-mail message in our work-flows, it's essential to quickly deal with all
that mail - in particular, to instantly find that one important e-mail you
need right now.
*mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format. *mu*'s main purpose is to help you to quickly find the
messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract
attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]] for some examples.
Searching works by first indexing your messages into a [[http://xapian.org/][Xapian]]-database, which
can then be queried using a custom query language.
** News
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 27775509-4d58-4d60-b0e9-651dce225f0c
:END:
- 2011-07-31: mu *0.9.7-pre* is now available with a number of interesting
new features and fixes, many based on user suggestions. =mu= now supports
/mail threading/ based on the [[http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html][JWZ-algorithm]]; output is now automatically
converted to the user-locale; =mu view= can output separators between
messages for easier processing, support for X-Label-tags, and last but not
least, =mu= now has bindings for the [[http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/][Guile]] (Scheme) programming language -
there is a new toy (=toys/muile=) that allows you to inspect messages and
do all kinds of statistics - see the [[https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README][README]] for more information.
Note, the repository name has changed, it's now at: https://gitorious.org/mu/mu.
- 2011-06-02: after quite a bit of testing, *0.9.6* has been promoted to be
the next release -- forget about the 'bèta'. Development continues for
the next release.
- 2011-05-28: *mu-0.9.6* (bèta). A lot of internal changes, but also quite
some new features, for example:
- wild-card searching for most fields: mu find 'car*'
- search for message with certain attachments with 'attach:/a:': mu find
'attach:resume*'
- color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view=
Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
cheatsheet]].
- 2011-04-25: *mu-0.9.5* a small, but important, bugfix in maildir-detection,
some small optimizations.
- 2011-04-12: *mu 0.9.4* released - adds the =cfind= command, to find
contacts (name + e-mail); add =flag:unread= which is a synonym for
=flag:new OR NOT flag:seen=. Updates to the documentation and some internal
updates. This is a *bèta-version*.
- 2011-02-13: *mu 0.9.3*; fixes a bunch of minor issues in 0.9.2; updated the
web page with pages for [[file:mug.org][mug]] (the experimental UI) and the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]].
- 2011-02-02: *mu 0.9.2* released, which adds support for matching on message
size, and various new output format. See [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/NEWS][NEWS]] for all the user-visible
changes, also from older releases.
- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
** Features
- fast indexing for Maildir, Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, message subject, size,
priority, words in the message body, attachments, date range, flags
(signed, encrypted, new, replied, unread, ...), message-id, maildir
- known to work on Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/GenToo), FreeBSD, MacOS,
Solaris, ...
- fully documented (man pages)
- can be integrated with e-mail clients; documentation has examples for [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]]
and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
- output in plain text, xml, json, s-expressions (experimental)
- extract message parts, attachments, open them using their default
application
In addition, there is a toy UI for *mu* called [[file:mug.org][mug]]; the plan is to slowly
evolve this into a full-featured UI.
** Development & download
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 19324381-696d-4c7e-aff2-528174780fd5
:END:
Some Linux-distributions already provide pre-built mu packages; if there's no
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 [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu][in Gitorious]];
also, see the notes on [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/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!
Given the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance
of e-mail message in our work-flows, it's essential to quickly deal with all
that mail - in particular, to instantly find that one important e-mail you
need right now.
*mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format. *mu*'s main purpose is to help you to quickly find the
messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract
attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]] for some examples.
Searching works by first indexing your messages into a [[http://xapian.org/][Xapian]]-database, which
can then be queried using a custom query language.
** News
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 27775509-4d58-4d60-b0e9-651dce225f0c
:END:
- 2011-07-31: mu *0.9.7-pre* is now available with a number of interesting
new features and fixes, many based on user suggestions. =mu= now supports
/mail threading/ based on the [[http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html][JWZ-algorithm]]; output is now automatically
converted to the user-locale; =mu view= can output separators between
messages for easier processing, support for X-Label-tags, and last but not
least, =mu= now has bindings for the [[http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/][Guile]] (Scheme) programming language -
there is a new toy (=toys/muile=) that allows you to inspect messages and
do all kinds of statistics - see the [[https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README][README]] for more information.
Note, the repository name has changed, it's now at: https://gitorious.org/mu/mu.
- 2011-06-02: after quite a bit of testing, *0.9.6* has been promoted to be
the next release -- forget about the 'bèta'. Development continues for
the next release.
- 2011-05-28: *mu-0.9.6* (bèta). A lot of internal changes, but also quite
some new features, for example:
- wild-card searching for most fields: mu find 'car*'
- search for message with certain attachments with 'attach:/a:': mu find
'attach:resume*'
- color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view=
Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
cheatsheet]].
- 2011-04-25: *mu-0.9.5* a small, but important, bugfix in maildir-detection,
some small optimizations.
- 2011-04-12: *mu 0.9.4* released - adds the =cfind= command, to find
contacts (name + e-mail); add =flag:unread= which is a synonym for
=flag:new OR NOT flag:seen=. Updates to the documentation and some internal
updates. This is a *bèta-version*.
- 2011-02-13: *mu 0.9.3*; fixes a bunch of minor issues in 0.9.2; updated the
web page with pages for [[file:mug.org][mug]] (the experimental UI) and the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]].
- 2011-02-02: *mu 0.9.2* released, which adds support for matching on message
size, and various new output format. See [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/NEWS][NEWS]] for all the user-visible
changes, also from older releases.
- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
** Features
- fast indexing for Maildir, Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, message subject, size,
priority, words in the message body, attachments, date range, flags
(signed, encrypted, new, replied, unread, ...), message-id, maildir
- known to work on Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/GenToo), FreeBSD, MacOS,
Solaris, ...
- fully documented (man pages)
- can be integrated with e-mail clients; documentation has examples for [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]]
and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
- output in plain text, xml, json, s-expressions (experimental)
- extract message parts, attachments, open them using their default
application
In addition, there is a toy UI for *mu* called [[file:mug.org][mug]]; the plan is to slowly
evolve this into a full-featured UI.
** Development & download
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 19324381-696d-4c7e-aff2-528174780fd5
:END:
Some Linux-distributions already provide pre-built mu packages; if there's no
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 [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu][in Gitorious]];
also, see the notes on [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/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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