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** Introduction
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Welcome to *mu mail* - an emacs client for the [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu][mu]] maildir indexing/searching
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tool. It turns mu into an e-mail-client.
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Mu Mail has things in common with programs such as 'notmuch' and 'md', but -
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in the opinion of its author - it offers some unique features as
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well. Basically, the mail handling (deleting, moving etc.) is inspired by *Wanderlust* (another emacs-based e-mail client) and *dired*, while it takes
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some cues from GMail with respect to being search-based. In practice this
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means that mu mail provides a 'traditional' folder-based e-mail client, on
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top of a search based back-end.
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** How does it work
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While not necessarily interesting for all users of mu mail, for some it may
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be interesting to know how mu mail does its job.
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Since version 0.9.8, mu has a special =server= command, which drops you into
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a command line where you can give certain commands to mu (see the =mu-server=
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man page). While it would certainly be possible to have specific commands to
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get lists of messages, move them, delete them etc., having a running instance
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around gets rid of the startup time of mu and especially the message
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database.
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So, when running mu mail inside emacs, it fires up an instance of 'mu
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server', and communicates with it as long as it runs.
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mu mail shows its results only after the mu server reports their
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completion. Still, the execution is asynchronous, so you do not need wait for
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anything. We found that, for example, deleting messages is fast enough to
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allow us to wait for the results. An alternative design would be to update
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the user-interface already; so far we are quite content with the performance.
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Regarding performance, showing large numbers (thousands) of message can still
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be a bit slower than is desirable. This is an area for improvement still.
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