mu

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Index and search emails from a local Maildir.

Examples (7)

Initialize the email database, optionally specifying the Maildir directory and email addresses

mu init --maildir=path/to/directory [email protected]

Index new emails

mu index

Find messages using a specific keyword (in message body, subject, sender, ...)

mu find keyword

Find messages to Alice with subject `jellyfish` containing the words `apples` or `oranges`

mu find to:alice subject:jellyfish apples OR oranges

Find unread messages about words starting with `soc` (the `*` only works at the end of the search term) in the Sent Items folder

mu find 'subject:soc*' flag:unread maildir:'/Sent Items'

Find messages from Sam with attached images, between 2 KiB and 2 MiB, written in 2021

mu find 'mime:image/* size:2k..2m date:20210101..20211231 from:sam

List contacts with `Bob` in either name or email address

mu cfind Bob