Need some help with mairix

[Dan Ritter]

Chris Green wrote: 
> There doesn't seem to be any sort of mailing list or other support for
> mairix so I'm hoping that some people who use it with mutt may be able
> to help me.
> 
> How does one search for E-Mails containing a string like 'LTS-25' ?

mairix defines a word as any string of alphanumeric characters +
underscore.  Any whitespace, punctuation, hyphens etc are treated as
word boundaries.

You can search for b:LTS,b:25
which ANDs the two together.

> Maybe it's simply not possible with mairix. Are there any better tools
> for searching E-Mail (stored in maildir)?

There's notmuch, and maildir-utils (mu). notmuch allows regular
expressions, which will likely suit you better.

-dsr-