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 1 About mairix and mairix.el
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 Mairix is a tool for indexing and searching words in locally stored
 mail.  It was written by Richard Curnow and is licensed under the GPL.
 Mairix comes with most popular GNU/Linux distributions, but it also runs
 under Windows (with cygwin), macOS and Solaris.  The homepage can be
 found at <http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/index.html>
 
    Though mairix might not be as flexible as other search tools like
 swish++ or namazu, it has the prime advantage of being incredibly fast.
 On current systems, it can easily search through headers and message
 bodies of thousands and thousands of mails in well under a second.
 Building the database necessary for searching might take a minute or
 two, but only has to be done once fully.  Afterwards, the updates are
 done incrementally and therefore are really fast, too.  Additionally,
 mairix is very easy to set up.
 
    Mairix presents the search results by either populating a _virtual_
 maildir/MH folder with symlinks which point to the “real” message files,
 or if mbox is used, it creates a new mbox file which contains copies of
 the found messages.
 
    ‘mairix.el’ is an interface to the mairix search engine.  It allows
 you to call mairix with a search term, easily create searches based on
 the currently displayed mail, save regularly used searches in your
 ‘.emacs’ for future use and lets you call mairix for updating the
 database.  It also lets you easily create search queries using graphical
 widgets, similar to a customization buffer.
 
    Currently, ‘mairix.el’ is only tested with mbox output together with
 RMail, Gnus, or VM as the Emacs mail program.  However, it should also
 work with Maildir or MH, and it should be very easy to integrate other
 Emacs mail programs into ‘mairix.el’ (Extending).
 
    If you use Gnus with maildir or MH, you should really use the native
 Gnus back end ‘nnmairix’ instead, since it is more tightly integrated
 into Gnus and has more features.
 

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