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): a full-features e-mail client that runs inside emacs * mu-guile: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language Mu is primarily written in C and a bit of C++, with parts of mu4e written in Emacs-lisp and mu-guile in 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