Need some help with mairix

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 09:54:09AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.
> 
Ah, thank you, notmuch might well work for me, I like REs. :-)

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Chris Green