---
name: "nmzmail"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nmzmail"
version: "1.1-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nmzmail"
---

# nmzmail(1)

a tool to use the namazu2 search engine from within mutt

## NAME

nmzmail - a tool to use the namazu2 search engine from within mutt

## SYNOPSIS

**nmzmail** \[ *-b \<base\>* \] \[ *-r \<result\>* \] *-i \<maildir1\> \<maildir2\>* ...

 \-or-

**nmzmail** \[ *-b \<base\>* \] \[ *-r \<result\>* \] \[ *-n \<limit\>* \]\

## DESCRIPTION

**nmzmail** is a program that uses the namazu2 search engine (http://www.namazu.org) from within the mail client mutt to search and index mail stored in maildir folders.  Based on the result of the namazu query, nmzmail generates a maildir folder containing symbolic links to the mail matching the query.  A simple mutt macro makes it very easy to use nmzmail from within mutt, and a simple crontab entry always keeps your mail indexed by namazu.

Add the following macro to your muttrc file:

```
macro generic S "<shell-escape>nmzmail<return><esc>c~/.nmzmail/result<return>" "Search via nmzmail"
```

Run mutt and hit "S" and enter your query when prompted.

You can manually update your index periodically or via a cronjob with:

*nmzmail -i \<maildir1\> \<maildir2\>*  ...

## OPTIONS

- **-i**

  This tells nmzmail to index your email.

- **-b** *FILE*

  Base.  Where nmzmail builds its index.  By default it is in $HOME/.nmzmail.

- **-r** *FILE*

  Result.  Similar to -b, this lets you specify where the results are to be built. By default it is within $HOME/.nmzmail.

- **-n** *NUM*

  Limit.  When making a query, nmzmail can be used directly from the command line instead of from within mutt.  When the -n option is invoked, the number of results returned from your query will be limited to whatever integer you specify for NUM.

## SEE ALSO

[**namazu**(1)](/namazu/1.md),[**mutt**(1)](/mutt/1.md)\

## AUTHOR

nmzmail was written by Johannes Hofmann \<johannes.hofmann@gmx.de\>

This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner \<kcoyner@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).