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| author | djcb <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2012-09-11 12:39:57 +0300 |
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| committer | djcb <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2012-09-11 12:39:57 +0300 |
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@@ -1,30 +1,31 @@ * 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. [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu][mu]] 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, and so on. See the [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/cheatsheet.html][mu cheatsheet]] for some examples. + Maildir-format. =mu='s purpose in life is to help you to quickly find the + messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract + attachments, create new maildirs, and so on. See the [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/cheatsheet.html][mu cheatsheet]] for some + examples. =mu= is fully documented. - Searching works by first indexing your messages into a Xapian-database, which - can then be queried using a custom query language. + After indexing your messages into a [[http://www.xapian.org][Xapian]]-database, you can search them using + a custom query language. You can use various message fields or words in the + body text to find the right messages. Built on top of the mu, are some extensions (included in this package): - * mu-for-emacs ([[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html][mu4e]]): a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacs - * [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu-guile.html][mu-guile]]: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language - - And, there is a toy GTK+-interface called 'mug' (in the 'toys/' subdir) + - mu-for-emacs ([[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html][mu4e]]): a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacs + - [[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu-guile.html][mu-guile]]: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language (version 2.0 + and later) + - 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. + =mu= is written in C and a bit of C++ (to interface with Xapian), with =mu4e= + written in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs-Lisp][Emacs-Lisp]] and =mu-guile= in a mix of C and Scheme. - Note, mu is available in Debian/Ubuntu under the name =maildir-utils=, + Note, =mu= is available in Debian/Ubuntu under the name =maildir-utils=; apparently because they don't like short name. It's also possible to confuse that name with the [[http://mailutils.org/][GNU Mailutils]] project (which is totally unrelated) - but now you have been warned. |
