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#+title: Mu
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* Welcome to mu!
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Given the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance
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of e-mail message in our work-flows, it's essential to quickly deal with all
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that mail - in particular, to instantly find that one important e-mail you
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need right now.
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*mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format. *mu*'s main purpose is to help you to quickly find the
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messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract
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attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]] for some examples.
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Searching works by first indexing your messages into a [[http://xapian.org/][Xapian]]-database, which
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can then be queried using a custom query language.
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** News
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:PROPERTIES:
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:ID: 27775509-4d58-4d60-b0e9-651dce225f0c
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:END:
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- 2011-07-31: mu *0.9.7-pre* is now available with a number of interesting
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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
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converted to the user-locale; =mu view= can output separators between
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messages for easier processing, support for X-Label-tags, and last but not
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least, =mu= now has bindings for the [[http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/][Guile]] (Scheme) programming language -
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there is a new toy (=toys/muile=) that allows you to inspect messages and
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do all kinds of statistics - see the [[https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README][README]] for more information.
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Note, the repository name has changed, it's now at: https://gitorious.org/mu/mu.
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- 2011-06-02: after quite a bit of testing, *0.9.6* has been promoted to be
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the next release -- forget about the 'bèta'. Development continues for
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the next release.
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- 2011-05-28: *mu-0.9.6* (bèta). A lot of internal changes, but also quite
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some new features, for example:
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- wild-card searching for most fields: mu find 'car*'
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- search for message with certain attachments with 'attach:/a:': mu find
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'attach:resume*'
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- color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view=
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Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
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cheatsheet]].
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- 2011-04-25: *mu-0.9.5* a small, but important, bugfix in maildir-detection,
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some small optimizations.
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- 2011-04-12: *mu 0.9.4* released - adds the =cfind= command, to find
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contacts (name + e-mail); add =flag:unread= which is a synonym for
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=flag:new OR NOT flag:seen=. Updates to the documentation and some internal
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updates. This is a *bèta-version*.
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- 2011-02-13: *mu 0.9.3*; fixes a bunch of minor issues in 0.9.2; updated the
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web page with pages for [[file:mug.org][mug]] (the experimental UI) and the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]].
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- 2011-02-02: *mu 0.9.2* released, which adds support for matching on message
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size, and various new output format. See [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/NEWS][NEWS]] for all the user-visible
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changes, also from older releases.
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- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
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** Features
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- fast indexing for Maildir, Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
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- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, message subject, size,
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priority, words in the message body, attachments, date range, flags
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(signed, encrypted, new, replied, unread, ...), message-id, maildir
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- known to work on Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/GenToo), FreeBSD, MacOS,
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Solaris, ...
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- fully documented (man pages)
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- can be integrated with e-mail clients; documentation has examples for [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]]
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and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
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- output in plain text, xml, json, s-expressions (experimental)
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- extract message parts, attachments, open them using their default
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application
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In addition, there is a toy UI for *mu* called [[file:mug.org][mug]]; the plan is to slowly
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evolve this into a full-featured UI.
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** Development & download
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:PROPERTIES:
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:ID: 19324381-696d-4c7e-aff2-528174780fd5
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:END:
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Some Linux-distributions already provide pre-built mu packages; if there's no
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packagage for your distribution, or if you want the latest release, you can
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[[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/list][download mu source packages]] from Google Code. In case you find a bug, or have
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a feature requests, please use the [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list][issue tracker]].
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If you'd like to work with the mu source code, you can find it [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu][in Gitorious]];
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also, see the notes on [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/HACKING][HACKING]] the mu source code.
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There's also a [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mailing list]].
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** License & Copyright
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*mu* was designed and implemented by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema, and is Free
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Software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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