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 --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