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| author | Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2020-01-01 13:44:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2020-01-01 15:56:47 +0200 |
| commit | 0f98fbec2dc1ecc61a41d4cbe45569065f3c1570 (patch) | |
| tree | 191d6f7605da8c034c8c48b24ed3dcbd40fbbbc7 /README | |
| parent | 8aa433b56b798a07a7e5ec77cc91bdee91c5d1a2 (diff) | |
README: remove README.org
We don't need both README(markdown) and README.org (org-mode).
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 68 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 44 deletions
@@ -1,45 +1,25 @@ - README - ====== - -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] is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the - 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 [mu cheatsheet] for some - examples. =mu= is fully documented. - - After indexing your messages into a [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 =mu= are some extensions (included in this package): - - - mu-for-emacs ([mu4e]): a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacs - - [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++ (to interface with Xapian), 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=; - apparently because they don't like short names. It's also possible to confuse - that name with the [GNU Mailutils] project (which is totally unrelated) - but - now you have been warned. - - - [mu]: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu - [mu cheatsheet]: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/cheatsheet.html - [Xapian]: http://www.xapian.org - [mu4e]: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html - [mu-guile]: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu-guile.html - [Emacs-Lisp]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs-Lisp - [GNU Mailutils]: http://mailutils.org/ +Welcome to mu & mu4e! +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, and quickly file away message for later use. + +`mu` is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the 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 [mu cheatsheet] for some examples. =mu= +is fully documented. + +After indexing your messages into a [Xapian](http://www.xapian.org)-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 `mu` are some extensions (included in this package): + + * mu4e: a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacs + + * mu-guile: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language (version 2.2 and later) + +`mu` is written in C and C++; `mu4e` is written in elisp, and `mu-guile` in a mix of C and Scheme. + +Note, `mu` is available in Linux distributions (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora) under the name +`maildir-utils`; apparently because they don't like short names. |
