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Mutt Search on Steroids

Mutt has a powerful feature to dig into the history: the limit feature. By pressing l it is then possible to write a query to filter the mails. It is comparable to the WHERE part of a SQL statement and allow combining AND operators. In particular the ~b predicate allow to search within the email's body and the ~X lets filter attachments.

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Mutt & Sidebar

When receiving many mails a day, having a single mail pool makes easy to loose important emails. Using mailboxes (ie: sub folders) with rules becomes a need. The good point is all the mailboxes are regularly updated to alert when incoming email are received. The few steps are generating a mailbox tree, mooving mails manually, mooving them automatically, and finally mooving the history in batch.

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