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As Keith pointed out, (with a humorous citation from Mark Twain), the two uses of "very" added nothing to the description. Also, "large collection of email" was repeated uselessly.
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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. It uses the Xapian library to
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provide fast, full-text search with a convenient 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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Contacting users and developers
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The website for Notmuch is:
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http://notmuchmail.org
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The mailing list address for the notmuch community is:
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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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Interface options
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Notmuch includes a "notmuch" command-line interface to the system.
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This is not a very convenient interface and it is not expected that
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users will find it satisfying. Instead, there are two option for
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obtaining a more sophisticated interface:
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1. Build on top of the "notmuch" command-line interface.
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This might be a reasonable option for a very text-oriented
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client environment. For example, an emacs-based interface for
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notmuch is already under development and is available in the
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notmuch.el file in this distribution.
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If someone were to write a curses-based interface, or similar,
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it might also be reasonable to build on the "notmuch"
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command-line interface.
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2. Build on top of the notmuch library interface.
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This is a better choice for developing an interface that has
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full control of the presentation of email threads and
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messages. It is expected that anyone integrating Notmuch into
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an existing, graphical email program use the notmuch library
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interface.
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The public interface to the notmuch library is contained in
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the notmuch.h header file. The "notmuch" command-line program
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in notmuch.c can be used as good example code, since it is a
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simple program that is written on top of the library
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interface.
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As can be seen, alternate interfaces to the Notmuch mail system are
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still in development. We would appreciate any contributions to these
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efforts.
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