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Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.
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Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
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large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
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the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
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search syntax.
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Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
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License version 3 (or later).
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Building notmuch
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See the INSTALL file for notes on compiling and installing notmuch.
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2010-06-01 19:44:32 +02:00
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Running notmuch
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After installing notmuch, start by running "notmuch setup" which will
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interactively prompt for configuration information such as your name,
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email address, and the directory which contains your mail archive to
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be indexed. You can change any answers later by running "notmuch
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setup" again or by editing the .notmuch-config file in your home
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directory.
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With notmuch configured you should next run "notmuch new" which will
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index all of your existing mail. This can take a long time, (several
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hours) if you have a lot of email, (hundreds of thousands of
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files). When new mail is delivered to your mail archive in the future,
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you will want to run "notmuch new" again. These runs will be much
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faster as they will only index new messages.
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Finally, you can prove to yourself that things are working by running
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some command-line searches such as "notmuch search
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from:someone@example.com" or "notmuch search subject:topic". See
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"notmuch help search-terms" for more details on the available search
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syntax.
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The command-line search output is not expected to be particularly
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friendly for day-to-day usage. Instead, it is expected that you will
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use an email interface that builds on the notmuch command-line tool or
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the libnotmuch library.
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Notmuch installs a full-featured email interface for use within
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emacs. To use this, first add the following line to your .emacs file:
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(require 'notmuch)
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Then, either run "emacs -f notmuch" or execute the command "M-x
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notmuch" from within a running emacs.
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If you're interested in a non-emacs-based interface to notmuch, then
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please join the notmuch community. Various other interfaces are
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already in progress, (an interface within vim, a curses interface,
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graphical interfaces based on evolution, and various web-based
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interfaces). The authors of these interfaces would love further
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testing or contribution. See contact information below.
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Contacting users and developers
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The website for Notmuch is:
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http://notmuchmail.org
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2009-11-18 12:24:27 +01:00
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The mailing list address for the notmuch community is:
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2009-11-18 12:24:27 +01:00
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notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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We welcome any sort of questions, comments, kudos, or code there.
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Subscription is not required, (but if you do subscribe you'll avoid
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any delay due to moderation). See the website for subscription
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information.
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There is also an IRC channel dedicated to talk about using and
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developing notmuch:
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IRC server: irc.freenode.net
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Channel: #notmuch
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