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- mu4e-main.el: mu4e-update-mail-show-window retrieves mail / updates
database, show output in split window (actual work is done by...:)
- mu4e.el: mu4e-update-mail retrieves mail, updates database,
asynchronously. Optionally, show output in a buffer
when `mu4e-update-interval' is non-nil and some integer, it calls
mu4e-update-mail every so many seconds.
- mu4e.texi: document this
- TODO: updated
Welcome to mu! -------------- Given 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. mu[1] is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format. mu's main purpose is to help you to quickly find the messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract attachments, create new maildirs, … See the mu cheatsheet[2] for some examples. Searching works by first indexing your messages into a Xapian-database, which can then be queried using a custom query language. Built on top of mu there are some extensions: * mu-for-emacs (mu4e)[3]: a full-features e-mail client that runs inside emacs * mu-guile[4]: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language And, there is a toy GTK+-interface called 'mug' (in the 'toys/' subdir) Mu is written in C and a bit of C++, with mu4e written in Emacs-lisp and mu-guile in a mix of C and Scheme. Note, mu is available in Debian/Ubuntu under the name "maildir-utils" because they don't like short names. [1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ [2] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/cheatsheet.html [3] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html [4] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu-guile.html