Re: Need some help with mairix
Dan Ritter <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:54:09 -0500
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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-