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@ -6,24 +6,24 @@ mu easy \- a quick introduction to mu
.SH DESCRIPTION
As you may know, \fBmu\fR is a set of tools for dealing with e-mail messages
in Maildirs. There are many options, which are all described in the individual
man pages for the various sub-commands. This man pages jumps over all the
details and gives examples of the more common use cases. If the use cases
described here do not precisely do what you want, please check the more
extensive information in the man page about the sub-command you are using --
for example, the mu-index or mu-find man pages.
\fBmu\fR is a set of tools for dealing with e-mail messages in Maildirs. There
are many options, which are all described in the individual man pages for the
various sub-commands. This man pages jumps over all the details and gives
examples of the more common use cases. If the use cases described here do not
precisely do what you want, please check the more extensive information in the
man page about the sub-command you are using -- for example, the mu-index or
mu-find man pages.
\fBNOTE\fR: the \fBindex\fR command (and therefore, the ones that depend on
that, such as \fBfind\fR), require that you store your mail in the
Maildir-format. If you don't do so, you can still use the other commands, but
cannot index/search your mail.
you won't be able to index/search your mail.
.SH INDEXING YOUR E-MAIL
Before you can search e-mails, you'll first need to index them:
.nf
\fB$ mu index\fR
\fB$ mu index\fR
.fi
The process can take a few minutes, depending on the amount of mail you have,
@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ date/sender/subject. However, we can change this using the \fI--fields\fR
parameter (see the \fBmu-find\fR man page for the details):
.nf
\fB$ mu find --fields="t s" t:julius fruit\fR
\fB$ mu find --fields="t s" t:julius fruit\fR
.fi
In other words, display the 'To:'-field (t) and the subject (s). This should
@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ is, it displays messages that match all the parameters. However, we can use
logical OR as well:
.nf
\fB$ mu find t:julius OR f:socrates\fR
\fB$ mu find t:julius OR f:socrates\fR
.fi
In other words, display messages that are either sent to Julius Caesar
@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ of) the message contents by using the --summary-len=\fIn\fR option, which
will 'summarize' the first \fIn\fR lines of the message:
.nf
\fB$ mu find --summary-len=4 napoleon m:/archive\fR
\fB$ mu find --summary-len=4 napoleon m:/archive\fR
.fi
.nf
@ -162,8 +162,6 @@ Get all message we got in the last two weeks about emacs:
\fB$ mu find date:2w..now emacs\fR
.fi
.SH DISPLAYING MESSAGES
We might also want to display complete messages. This can be done using \fBmu
@ -175,7 +173,7 @@ need its path. To get the path (think \fBl\fRocation) for our first example we
can use:
.nf
\fB$ mu find --fields="l" t:julius fruit\fR
\fB$ mu find --fields="l" t:julius fruit\fR
.fi
And we'll get someting like:
@ -185,23 +183,19 @@ And we'll get someting like:
We can now display this message:
.nf
\fB$ mu view /home/someuser/Maildir/archive/cur/1266188485_0.6850.cthulhu:2,\fR
\fB$ mu view /home/someuser/Maildir/archive/cur/1266188485_0.6850.cthulhu:2,\fR
From: John Milton <jm@example.com>
To: Julius Caesar <jc@example.com>
Subject: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
Date: 2008-07-31T21:57:25 EEST
From: John Milton <jm@example.com>
To: Julius Caesar <jc@example.com>
Subject: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
Date: 2008-07-31T21:57:25 EEST
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
[...]
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
[...]
.fi
.SH BUGS
Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>