Press Q in Mutt’s index and enter your mu/Xapian search query.
Let’s search for articles mentioning
Planetfall during
2019-2021 period: Planetfall date:2019..2021. mu will
create symbolic links in search/ subdirectory to the message.
Press <F2> to switch to that mailbox:
1 [2021-12-20 07:08] Missed Classic: Stationfall - When Food Dispensers Attack (The Adventurers Guild) 2 [2021-11-20 04:52] Missed Classic 102: Stationfall - Introduction (1987) (The Adventurers Guild) 3 [2021-11-19 17:54] Boffo Games (The Digital Antiquarian) 4 [2021-10-30 23:05] Missed Classic 100: The Manhole (1988) (The Adventurers Guild) 5 [2020-05-17 22:16] Round 04 Reveal (unWinnable State) 6 [2020-05-16 22:29] Round 03 Reveal (unWinnable State) 7 [2020-04-20 11:00] Planetfall (Eaten By A Grue: Infocom, Text Adventures, and Interactive Fiction) 8 [2020-04-09 11:00] Beyond Zork (Eaten By A Grue: Infocom, Text Adventures, and Interactive Fiction) -%-Mutt: =search [Nachr:8 215K]---
Pay attention that ‘this uses a different index format, lacking unnecessary message flags display and adding the name of the feed in parenthesis.