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mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in
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Maildir, MH or mbox folders.
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* Indexing is fast. It runs incrementally on new messages - any particular
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message only gets scanned once in the lifetime of the index file.
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* The search mode populates a "virtual" folder with symlinks(*) which
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point to the real messages. This folder can be opened as usual in your mail
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program.
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* The search mode is very fast.
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* Indexing and searching works on the basis of words. The index file tabulates
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which words occur in which parts (particular headers + body) of which
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messages.
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The program is a very useful complement to mail programs like mutt
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(http://www.mutt.org/, which supports Maildir, MH and mbox folders) and
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Sylpheed (which supports MH folders).
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[(*) where the input or output folder is an mbox, a copy of the message is made
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instead of symlinking.]
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