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welcome to mu

+ +E-mail is the 'flow' in the work flow of many people. Consequently, one spends +a lot of time searching for old e-mails, to dig up some important +piece of information. With people having tens of thousands of e-mails (or +more), this is becoming harder and harder. How to find that one e-mail in an +evergrowing haystack? + +

Enter mu. 'mu' is a set of command-line tools for +Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking +for. + +

First there is mu index which fills a database with +information about all your e-mails; this may take a couple of minutes +the first time you do it, but after that it's a lot faster. + +

+  $ mu index
+
+It tries to pick reasonable defaults, but you can of course specify +your own options. You can run mu index periodically to keep +your database up-to-date. + +

After building the database, it's easy to search for messages. For example: +

+  # get all Smith's mails with 'capybara' in the subject line
+  $ mu find f:smith capybara
+
+  # get the mails in the archive folder where Mary was Cc'd 
+  $ mu find p:archive c:mary 
+
+ +The way to express the searches is a bit cryptic at first, but easy to +learn (in the author's humble opinion); the mu manpage discusses +syntax and usage, and contains examples. + +

mu is Free Software (GPLv3), runs on Unix/Linux-based +systems, and combines the power of the SQLite +database and the Xapian text indexing +engine. Important: for mu to work, your mails must be stored in a +set of maildirs + +

news

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  • [2010-01-26] mu version 0.6-beta. After some + hiatus in the release schedule, mu is back now! The new + version is a total overhaul of what was there before. It's smaller + and faster, and removes quite a bit of the (in the eyes of the + author) needless complexity. + + It adds some new features that users asked for, such as a way to + exclude directories from indexing (simply put a file called + .noindex in it. + + The queries are bit less featureful, the more useful parts will + slowly be added again in future versions. + + Note, this is version 0.6-beta, the 'real' 0.6 will follow in a few + weeks. + +
  • [2008-11-01] mu version 0.4 released. This version adds + extensions to the query language and the ability to get statistics about the + messages that match some queries. mu-index is substantially faster. + Also, mu-msginfo has been extended. Small optimizations have been + done, and some bugs have been fixed. Finally, some GTK+-widgets have been + added; they are to be considered 'experimental'. + +
  • [2008-09-25] mu version 0.3 released; this version adds + further signicant indexing speedups (esp. on ext3-file + systems). Added searching for relative dates ('3w' for 'three weeks ago'); + search for message properties such as has-attachment/signed/encrypted; + search for message priority; updated documentation; define bookmarks for + search queries; more unit-tests. + +
  • [2008-09-10] mu version 0.2 released; this version adds + supports for message-body searches (Xapian); indexing is much faster; added + Maildir++ support; sorting of results; added + mu-mkmdir/mu-msginfo. Improved documentation, unit tests. + +
  • [2008-08-25] mu version 0.1 released +
+ +

features

+mu find: +
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  • search for sender and recipient; subject,message body text +
  • output to stdout, or as maildirs with links to the original messages +
+mu index: +
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  • scan messages in recursive Maildirs, Maildir++ or separate files; +
  • only changed messages are considered when re-indexing; +
+ +

download and license

+ +You can download mu releases from their download page (Google +Code). mu is released under the terms of the GNU General Public +License (GPL), version 3 or later. +

+ + +

+ +The mu source code is available in Gitorious; get it from there: +
+  git clone git://gitorious.org/mu/mu-ng.git
+
+ +This is the source code for the new versions of mu (0.6 beta and +beyond). Unless you want to track development, it's better to track +the released versions. + + + +

building and dependencies

+ +mu uses GMime +2.4 and Xapian; you'll need to +have those installed to build mu. On Debian/Ubuntu, the +following should get you all you need: + +
 # apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev
+(obviously, you also need the normal build tools; +gcc/g++, make and friends). + +

mu uses autotools, so building follows the normal +configure/make pattern. + +

This should work without any problems at least on recent Debian/Ubuntu, for +both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. If it does not work for your +distribution, please file +a bug with all the error messages, relevant information about your system +etc. that you got. + +

contact

If you +think you have found a bug, or you have a good idea for a feature, please put +them in the issue list +(Google Code). + +

mu was designed and implemented by me, Dirk-Jan +C. Binnema, as a hobby project for my copious free time. It has no +relation to my employer.

You can send e-mail to +djcb-at-djcbsoftware-dot-nl. + +

Or, if you're interested, you can read my Dutch blog or English blog. + +

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+©2008 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema +
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