mu

Index and search emails from a local Maildir.

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

mu init --maildir={path/to/directory} --my-address={name@example.com}

• 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}

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