Need some help with mairix

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

On 28/01/26, Chris Green (cl at isbd.net) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 09:54:09AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Chris Green wrote: 

> > 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. :-)

This thread prompted me to look into this too.

There is a post at https://baty.net/posts/2024/02/searching-in-mutt-with-notmuch/
explaining the author's use of notmuch in mutt, which I plan to try out.

Much less elegantly, I wrote the imaginatively named `mailfinder`[1] for searching maildirs and mboxes for a legal discovery process. Its concurrent (across mailboxes) and pretty fast, but doesn't offer any indexing or virtual mailboxes (which sound cool). It searches text attachments, but not other kinds (for the time being), using either string matching or golang regexps.

Cheers,
Rory

[1] https://github.com/rorycl/mailfinder