................Tue 7.May'13 at 11:09:54 -0400, Tim Gray................ > On May 07, 2013 at 02:53 PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > >What other search programs work well with mutt? > > I used mairix long ago. I think notmuch [1] and mu [2] are superior. > I used to think notmuch had more going for it compared to mu, but > I've since settled on mu in the last year or two and have been very > happy with it. > > If you use screen, there is a nice script called muttjump [3] that > you can bind to a key combo to find the original message. It's > pretty nice. The basic premise is that after you make a folder with > your symlinked search results, you can run this script and it will > find the original message in the original maildir. Then it will open > a new terminal in screen, load mutt, and take you to that maildir and > message. > > As some others have pointed out, I think there a program called > grepmail that might be useful. Personally, I have so many messages > that running a live search like that would take forever, so I prefer > to have my mail pre-indexed by mu. > > [1]: http://notmuchmail.org > [2]: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ > [3]: https://github.com/weisslj/muttjump
Having not heard of "mu" before, I followed your link and it looks like a cool program! Thanks for sharing, i'll be trying it out asap. Jamie -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38