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Carl Worth 305e76bc0a notmuch: Add a configuration system.
This will allow for things like the database path to be specified
without any cheesy NOTMUCH_BASE environment variable. It also will
allow "notmuch reply" to recognize the user's email address when
constructing a reply in order to do the right thing, (that is, to use
the user's address to which mail was sent as From:, and not to reply
to the user's own addresses).

With this change, the "notmuch setup" command is now strictly for
changing the configuration of notmuch. It no longer creates the
database, but instead instructs the user to call "notmuch new" to do
that.
2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
lib notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Ignore .deps directory. 2009-11-10 10:49:44 -08:00
add-files.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
AUTHORS Drop date.c file, (use identical function from GMime instead). 2009-11-02 14:36:33 -08:00
configure Add a simple configure script. 2009-11-02 09:11:37 -08:00
COPYING Add copy of GNU General Public License (version 3). 2009-10-21 16:25:08 -07:00
COPYING-GPL-3 Add copy of GNU General Public License (version 3). 2009-10-21 16:25:08 -07:00
gmime-filter-reply.c notmuch reply: Add (incomplete) reply command 2009-11-10 13:32:02 -08:00
gmime-filter-reply.h notmuch reply: Add (incomplete) reply command 2009-11-10 13:32:02 -08:00
INSTALL Add an INSTALL file. 2009-11-02 09:25:04 -08:00
Makefile Makefile: Change default flags to -O2. 2009-11-10 08:36:41 -08:00
Makefile.local notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
notmuch-client.h notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
notmuch-completion.bash Add bash-completion script for notmuch. 2009-10-24 22:28:22 -07:00
notmuch-config.c notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
notmuch-dump.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch-new.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch-reply.c notmuch reply: Use GMime to construct the header for the reply. 2009-11-11 10:54:12 -08:00
notmuch-restore.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch-search.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch-setup.c notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
notmuch-show.c notmuch reply: Add (incomplete) reply command 2009-11-10 13:32:02 -08:00
notmuch-tag.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch-time.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
notmuch.1 notmuch reply: Add (incomplete) reply command 2009-11-10 13:32:02 -08:00
notmuch.c notmuch: Add a configuration system. 2009-11-11 17:01:55 -08:00
notmuch.el notmuch.el: Add a binding ('r') to reply to the current message. 2009-11-10 18:47:53 -08:00
query-string.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
README README: Add a simple file explaining notmuch and pointing out resources. 2009-11-02 07:18:49 -08:00
show-message.c notmuch reply: Use GMime to construct the header for the reply. 2009-11-11 10:54:12 -08:00
TODO TODO: Note that notmuch restore needs some progress indication. 2009-11-09 13:42:30 -08:00

Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.

Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to
provide fast, full-text search of very large collection of email with
a very convenient search syntas.

Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
License version 3 (or later).

Building notmuch
----------------
See the INSTALL file for notes on compiling and installing notmuch.

Contacting users and developers
-------------------------------
The website for Notmuch is:

	http://notmuchmail.org

We will soon be creating a mailing list for users and developers of
notmuch. Details will appear on the website. Until then, please feel
free to email Carl with any questions you have:

	Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>

There is also an IRC channel dedicated to talk about using and
developing notmuch:

	IRC server:	irc.freenode.net
	Channel:	#notmuch

Interface options
-----------------
Notmuch includes a "notmuch" command-line interface to the system.
This is not a very convenient interface and it is not expected that
users will find it satisfying. Instead, there are two option for
obtaining a more sophisticated interface:

     1. Build on top of the "notmuch" command-line interface.

	This might be a reasonable option for a very text-oriented
	client environment. For example, an emacs-based interface for
	notmuch is already under development and is available in the
	notmuch.el file in this distribution.

	If someone were to write a curses-based interface, or similar,
	it might also be reasonable to buil on the "notmuch"
	command-line interface.

     2. Build on top of the notmuch library interface.

	This is a better choice for developing an interface that has
	full control of the presentation of email threads and
	messages. It is expected that anyone integrating Notmuch into
	an existing, graphical email program use the notmuch library
	interface.

	The public interface to the notmuch library is contained in
	the notmuch.h header file. The "notmuch" command-line program
	in notmuch.c can be used as good example code, since it is a
	simple program that is written on top of the library
	interface.

As can be seen, alternate interfaces to the Notmuch mail system are
still in development. We would appreciate any contributions to these
efforts.