Q. How can I search multiple Maildirs for strings all at once? A. Use grep or others. Mutt doesn't support a recursive search. One of the others is Mairix. It indexes the mails in the maildir folders. When a search is invoked, it put symlinks for the found mails in a designated folder. It can be invoked using ! within Mutt. See http:// www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/mairix/ for more information.