mu

Index and search emails from a local Maildir. More information: <https://man.cx/mu>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/mu.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install maildir-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install maildir-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S mu
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install maildir-utils
Fedora
dnf install mu
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install maildir-utils
OS X
brew install mu
Raspbian
apt-get install mu
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/mu

Index and search emails from a local Maildir. More information: <https://man.cx/mu>.

  • 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

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