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New version 1.12.5 - Rework message composition; split off parts into mu4e-draft.el This tries harder to maintain the current buffer as expected - This fixes e.g. emacs-report-bug handling - New hook mu4e-compose-post-hook for tweaking what mu4e does when we're done with a message (after sending, cancelling, ...). By default, it tries to close the frame if needed, and restore the window configuration. See its docstring. - Better handle forwarding of encoded messages - Don't remove non-mu4e completion in composer - Integrate iCalendar support with message-composition - Handle mu4e-sent-messages-behavior correctly when it's a function - Better support NetBSD - Support some file systems that don't put the file type in d_type - Improve documenation |
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README.org
[ Note: you are looking at the development branch, which is where new code is being developed and tested, and which may occasionally break. Distributions and non-adventurous users are instead recommended to use the 1.10 Release Branch or to pick up one of the 1.10 Releases. ]
Welcome to mu
!
Latest development news: /emacs/mu/src/tag/v1.12.5/NEWS.org.
With 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, and quickly file away message for later use.
mu
is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format. mu
's
purpose in life is to help you to quickly find the messages you need; in
addition, it allows you to view messages, extract attachments, create new
maildirs, and so on.
After indexing your messages into a Xapian-database, you can search them using a custom query language. You can use various message fields or words in the body text to find the right messages.
Built on top of mu
are some extensions (included in this package):
mu4e
: a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacsmu-guile
: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language (version 3.0 and later)
mu
is written in C++; mu4e
is written in elisp
and mu-guile
in a mix of C++ and
Scheme.
mu
is available in Linux distributions (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora) under the
name maildir-utils
; apparently because they don't like short names. All of the
code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
(or higher).
Installation
Note: building from source is an advanced subject, especially if something goes wrong. The below simple examples are a start, but all tools involved have many options; there are differences between systems, versions etc. So if this is all a bit daunting we recommend to wait for someone else to build it for you, such as a Linux distribution. Many have packages available.
Requirements
To be able to build mu
, ensure you have:
- a C++17 compiler (
gcc
orclang
are known to work) - development packages for Xapian and GMime and GLib (see
meson.build
for thex versions) - basic tools such as
make
,sed
,grep
meson
For mu4e
, you also need emacs
.
Note, support for Windows is very much experimental, that is, it works for some people, but we can't really support it due to lack of the specific expertise. Help is welcome!
Building
$ git clone git://github.com/djcb/mu.git $ cd mu
mu
uses meson
for building, so you can use that directly, and all the usual
commands apply. You can also use it indirectly through the provided Makefile
,
which provides a number of useful targets.
For instance, using the Makefile
, you could install mu
using:
$ ./autogen.sh && make $ sudo make install
Alternatively, you can run meson
directly (see the meson
documentation for
more details):
$ meson setup -C build $ meson compile -C build $ meson install -C build
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! See the Github issue list and /emacs/mu/src/tag/v1.12.5/IDEAS.org.