Maildir-utils: index, search and manage Maildir mailboxes

Mu stores its metadata in the maildir. The index is there just for speed and can be regenerated from the maildir. Meanwhile notmuch - a similar tool - has support for message tagging. I wish at least one of them supported both features.

I use this as my daily driving for email and find it works great. I like that I can still use other apps to look at mail (my phone) and mu works still.

As someone who&#x27;s very un-savvy when it comes to managing email servers and mailboxes: what is the unixy solution for moving a mailbox from one IMAP server to another? Ideally is there such a solution that doesn&#x27;t require me to have ssh access to both of the servers?<p>Like - can I download and back up an entire mailbox with mu? And restore it to a different server? Or can I do that with some other tool? If I had ssh access to both servers, and they both used Maildir. could I do it with mu?<p>I know what Maildir is but I don&#x27;t know how to determine if my IMAP server is using it, or something that looks like Maildir but isn&#x27;t. My mail server runs dovecot and I&#x27;m pretty sure stores mail as Maildir, it looks like Maildir in the file system, but I wouldn&#x27;t know how to positively verify that.<p>I know these are very random questions, just trying to figure out how to have more control of my mail...!

Good old mu, I use a combination of isync, mu, and mu4e for downloading, indexing, and reading&#x2F;wrangling my mail. It works like a charm, though I did have to set <i>mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving</i> to avoid isync getting hung up on duplicate mail IDs.