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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 Maildir-format, on Unix-like systems. 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 mu cheatsheet for some examples.
Searching works by first indexing your messages into a Xapian-database, which can then be queried using a custom query language.
Features
- fast indexing for 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, extracting attachments, exporting address lists, creating maildirs, …
- accent/case normalization - so angstrom will match Ångström.
- can be integrated with other e-mail clients such as mutt and Wanderlust.
- mu4e, an emacs-based e-mail client based on
mu
- mu-guile: guile-bindings that allow for scripting, advanced processing of your data
- fully documented (man pages, info pages)
News
- 2012-01-07: mu-0.9.8-alpha-3 is available, with fixes for some
mu4e
configuration problems; also, the documentation now contains an example of how to set upmu4e
with Gmail. - 2012-01-06: mu-0.9.8-alpha-2 is available; updates for
mu4e
, much improved guile bindings + documentation. The work-in-progress documentation is available here: mu4e and mu-guile. - 2011-12-30 mu-0.9.8-alpha is available; it comes with a an emacs-based
email client (
mu4e
), updated guile bindings, 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.
- 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 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 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 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.
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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
andmu view
Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the 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); addflag:unread
which is a synonym forflag: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 mug (the experimental UI) and the mu cheatsheet.
- 2011-02-02: mu 0.9.2 released, which adds support for matching on message size, and various new output format. See NEWS for all the user-visible changes, also from older releases.
- Old news
Development & download
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 download mu source packages from Google Code. In case you find a bug, or have a feature requests, please use the issue tracker.
If you'd like to work with the mu source code, you can find it in Gitorious; also, see the notes on HACKING the mu source code.
There's also a 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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