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={{[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}}