mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH, MMDF or mbox folders.
Indexing is fast. It runs incrementally on new messages - any particular message only gets scanned once in the lifetime of the index file.
The search mode populates a "virtual" folder with symlinks(*) which point to the real messages. This folder can be opened as usual in your mail program.
The search mode is very fast.
Indexing and searching works on the basis of words. The index file tabulates which words occur in which parts (particular headers + body) of which messages.
The program is a very useful complement to mail programs like mutt (http://www.mutt.org/, which supports Maildir, MH and mbox folders) and Sylpheed (which supports MH folders).
The original author of mairix is Richard P. Curnow rc@rc0.org.uk. It is maintained since 2017 by Kim Vandry vandry@TZoNE.ORG.
[(*) where the input or output folder is an mbox, a copy of the message is made instead of symlinking.]
Copyright (C) Richard P. Curnow 2002-2004 Copyright (C) Richard P. Curnow & Kim Vandry & contributors 2017-
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Suggestions, bug reports, experiences, praise, complaints are welcom on the mailing list or as issues or pull requests at https://github.com/vandry/mairix
Since July 2006, there is a mairix-users mailing list. To subscribe or to view the archives, visit
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mairix-users
The main website for mairix is
https://github.com/vandry/mairix
See the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file