This is still in an experimental state. Functions and bindings may change in a future update. Feedback is very much appreciated.
Mu4e Filters provides an easy and customizable search filter interface
for the Emacs email client Mu4e.
Install, press , (M-x mu4e-filters) on your message view and
narrow or search your messages by various handy filters.
Mu4e Filters hopes to reduce the overhead of context switching that
the many kinds of messages is a typical inbox impose on a user. A
typical workflow using Mu4e Filter might involve, for example, dealing
with emails from the mailing list at point (, l), returning to the
inbox (\) dealing with those by the sender at point (, s), and so
on.
It also allows users to intuitively and easily perform complex and non-trivial narrowing and search queries.
For example: Filter the current email list (, l) by those involving the sender
at point (, s s) with a 'Word'-like attachment (, a w) sent this month (, d m)
that I still haven't replied to (, w W).
Pressing , will make Mu4e Filters narrow the current header view by
that filter. To perform a global search of all your messages instead,
call it with a prefix argument instead (C-u ,).
It has helped me manage my daily email torrent, and I hope it helps others too!
| KEY | FILTER | INFO |
|---|---|---|
| a | Attachment | Filter by attachments or specific attachment MIME. Customize via the variable mu4e-filter-attachment-types. |
| d | Date | Filter by date range or relative date period. Customize via the variable mu4e-filter-list-of-dates. |
| g | Flagged | Filter by flagged ('starred') or unflagged messages. |
| h | Forwarded | Filter by forwarded ('passed' or 'handled') messages. |
| i | Size | Filter by messages bigger than n. Customize via the variable mu4e-filter-sizes. |
| l | List | Filter by email list at point. Add implicit email lists via the variable mu4e-filter-implicit-email-lists. |
| p | Priority | Filter by message priority (as set by sender). |
| t | Recipient | Filter by the address in the :to field at point. |
| w | Replied | Filter by replied or unreplied messages. |
| r | Read | Filter by read or unread messages. |
| s | Sender | Filter by sender at point. |
| x | GPG | Filter by encrypted or signed messages. |
This list can be customized with the variable mu4e-filters-enabled.
Until I feel like this is stable enough to be submitted to MELPA,
you'll need to clone this repo to your computer and import it in
your init.el or .emacs with load-file. For example:
(load-file "path/to/mu4e-filters.el")You can customize the behaviour of mu4e-filters via the mu4e-filters
menu in the Customize menu (M-x customize-group RET mu4e-filters RET).
Otherwise see the documentation for the variables mu4e-filters-enabled,
mu4e-filter-attachment-types, mu4e-filter-list-of-dates,
mu4e-filter-implicit-email-lists, mu4e-filter-sizes.
All very welcomed. This is my first attempt to give back to the Emacs community. Please get in touch via Github issues.