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MU
NAME
mu
- a set of tools to deal with Maildirs and message files, in particular to
index and search e-mail messages.
SYNOPSIS
mu
[COMMON-OPTIONS] /emacs/mu/src/commit/b08fe636f35f6d207e25ec3ba33b766dc57f56d0/man/COMMAND%5D%20%5BCOMMAND-OPTIONS
For information about the commmon options, see COMMON OPTIONS.
DESCRIPTION
mu
is the general command shows help about the specific commands:
add
: add specific messages to the database.cfind
: find contactsextract
: extract attachments and other MIME-partsfind
: find messages in the databasehelp
: get help for some commandindex
: (re)index the messages in a Maildirinfo
: show information about the mu databaseinit
: initialize the mu databasemkdir
: create a new Maildirremove
: remove specific messages from the databaseserver
: start a server process (formu4e
-internal use)view
: view a specific message
Each of the commands have their own manpage mu-<command~>
.
mu
is a set of tools for dealing with Maildirs and the e-mail messages
in them.
mu
's main purpose is to enable searching of e-mail messages. It
does so by periodically scanning a Maildir directory tree and
analyzing the e-mail messages found (this is called 'indexing'). The
results of this analysis are stored in a database, which can then be
queried.
In addition to indexing and searching, mu
also offers
functionality for viewing messages, extracting attachments and
creating maildirs, and searching and exporting contact information.
mu
can be used from the command line or can be integrated with various
e-mail clients.
This manpage gives a general overview of the available commands
(index
, find
, etc.); each mu
command has its own
man-page as well.
COLORS
Some mu
commands support colorized output, and do so by default. If you don't
want colors, you can use --nocolor
.
ENCODING
mu
's output is in the current locale, with the exceptions of the output
specifically meant for output to UTF8-encoded files. In practice, this means
that the output of commands index
, view
, extract
is always encoded according to
the current locale.
The same is true for find
and cfind
, with some exceptions, where
the output is always UTF-8, regardless of the locale:
- For
cfind
the exception is--format=bbdb
. This is hard-coded to UTF-8, and as such specified in the output-file, so emacs/bbdb can handle it correctly without guessing. - For
find
the output is encoded according the locale for--format=plain
(the default), and UTF-8 for all other formats.
DATABASE AND FILE
Commands mu index
and find
and cfind
work with the database, while the other
ones work on individual mail files. Hence, running view
, mkdir
and extract
does
not require the mu database.
SEE ALSO
mu-add(1)
, mu-cfind(1)
, mu-extract(1)
, mu-find(1)
, mu-help(1)
, mu-index(1)
,
mu-info(1)
, mu-init(1)
, mu-mkdir(1)
, mu-remove(1)
, mu-server(1)
, mu-view(1)
,
mu-query(7)
, mu-easy(1)