On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 09:54:09AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > 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. > Ah, thank you, notmuch might well work for me, I like REs. :-)
-- Chris Green
