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Jani Nikula bb8ab4c830 man: document the notmuch configuration settings in notmuch-config(1)
At the risk of duplication between the man page and the configuration
file generated by default, document the notmuch configuration options
in the notmuch config man page.

Existing users of notmuch should not be expected to re-generate their
config file in order to get access to the documentation for new
configuration options.

Include some minor fixes and cleanups while at it.
2012-02-27 22:38:18 -04:00
bindings python: split the documentation 2012-02-24 01:55:33 +01:00
compat Silence buildbot warnings about unused results 2012-01-21 08:49:50 -04:00
completion fix sum moar typos [build scripts, Makefiles] 2011-06-23 15:44:59 -07:00
contrib contrib/.gitattributes: remove 2011-12-06 11:20:57 -04:00
debian Build-Depend on libgmime-2.6-dev | libgmime2.4-dev 2012-02-27 21:55:48 -04:00
devel Document the JSON schemata used by show and search 2012-02-27 22:32:49 -04:00
emacs emacs: Fix out of date comment 2012-02-27 22:36:34 -04:00
lib Prevent segmentation fault in notmuch_database_close 2012-02-20 23:03:25 -04:00
man man: document the notmuch configuration settings in notmuch-config(1) 2012-02-27 22:38:18 -04:00
packaging fix sum moar typos [text files] 2011-06-23 15:40:50 -07:00
test emacs: Reverse the meaning of notmuch-show-refresh-view's argument 2012-02-25 10:35:22 -04:00
util Fix dependency generation for compat, test, and util 2012-01-19 09:19:12 -04:00
vim vim: fix citation/signature fold lengths 2011-07-16 21:57:38 +03:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: changed one-char comment prefix '; ' to two; '; ; ' 2012-01-22 08:41:37 -04:00
.gitignore fix .gitignore for gzipped man pages 2012-01-17 14:52:31 -04:00
AUTHORS Drop date.c file, (use identical function from GMime instead). 2009-11-02 14:36:33 -08:00
command-line-arguments.c command-line-arguments.[ch]: make arrays of keyword descriptors const 2011-12-13 00:00:44 -04:00
command-line-arguments.h command-line-arguments.[ch]: make arrays of keyword descriptors const 2011-12-13 00:00:44 -04:00
configure configure: update explicit check for glib : >= 2.22 2012-02-03 21:10:55 -04:00
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
debugger.c notmuch-new: Only install SIGALRM if not running under gdb 2009-11-22 05:36:36 +01:00
gmime-filter-headers.c notmuch: Fix off-by-one errors if a header is >200 characters long. 2010-06-01 16:09:29 -07:00
gmime-filter-headers.h fix sum moar typos [comments in source code] 2011-06-23 15:58:39 -07:00
gmime-filter-reply.c Filter out carriage-returns in show and reply output. 2009-11-18 23:34:43 +01:00
gmime-filter-reply.h Typsos 2009-11-18 03:21:36 -08:00
hooks.c cli: introduce the concept of user defined hooks 2011-12-11 13:57:31 -04:00
INSTALL Update NEWS and INSTALL about gmime 2.6 2012-01-21 08:55:08 -04:00
json.c json_quote_chararray: Always return a newly talloced array 2010-04-20 08:55:31 -07:00
Makefile build-system: update for split man pages 2011-12-31 15:16:32 -04:00
Makefile.local Fix dependency generation for CLI sources 2012-01-19 09:16:50 -04:00
mime-node.c mime node: Record depth-first part numbers 2012-01-25 07:19:22 -04:00
NEWS NEWS: sync 'new.ignore' entry with its comment in notmuch-config.c 2012-02-27 22:30:15 -04:00
notmuch-client.h add support for user-specified files & directories to ignore 2012-02-17 08:04:34 -04:00
notmuch-config.c cli: update 'new.ignore' config file comment wrt file/directory matching 2012-02-27 22:30:04 -04:00
notmuch-count.c search: rename auto_exclude_tags to {search, }exclude_tags 2012-01-23 19:17:16 -04:00
notmuch-dump.c notmuch-dump: convert to command-line-arguments 2011-12-08 20:24:24 -04:00
notmuch-new.c add support for user-specified files & directories to ignore 2012-02-17 08:04:34 -04:00
notmuch-reply.c cli: use notmuch_bool_t for boolean fields in notmuch_show_params_t 2012-02-12 11:58:20 -05:00
notmuch-restore.c notmuch-restore: convert to command-line-arguments 2011-12-08 20:24:24 -04:00
notmuch-search.c Document the JSON schemata used by show and search 2012-02-27 22:32:49 -04:00
notmuch-setup.c setup: prompt user for search.exclude_tags value 2012-01-23 19:24:59 -04:00
notmuch-show.c Document the JSON schemata used by show and search 2012-02-27 22:32:49 -04:00
notmuch-tag.c tag: remove unused attribute from notmuch_tag_command() arguments 2012-02-08 09:19:29 -04:00
notmuch-time.c Add some const correctness to talloc 'ctx' parameter. 2009-11-17 19:10:37 -08:00
notmuch.c notmuch: replace built-in help with exec of man 2011-12-31 15:16:32 -04:00
notmuch.desktop notmuch.desktop: Clarify that this is the emacs interface to notmuch. 2010-01-24 07:30:08 +13:00
query-string.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
README INSTALL/README: Clean up the description of how to run the emacs interface. 2010-06-01 10:51:42 -07:00
show-message.c Add compatibility with gmime 2.6 2012-01-21 08:52:34 -04:00
version version: bump to 0.11.1 2012-02-03 08:32:49 -04:00

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

Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
search syntax.

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.

Running notmuch
---------------
After installing notmuch, start by running "notmuch setup" which will
interactively prompt for configuration information such as your name,
email address, and the directory which contains your mail archive to
be indexed. You can change any answers later by running "notmuch
setup" again or by editing the .notmuch-config file in your home
directory.

With notmuch configured you should next run "notmuch new" which will
index all of your existing mail. This can take a long time, (several
hours) if you have a lot of email, (hundreds of thousands of
files). When new mail is delivered to your mail archive in the future,
you will want to run "notmuch new" again. These runs will be much
faster as they will only index new messages.

Finally, you can prove to yourself that things are working by running
some command-line searches such as "notmuch search
from:someone@example.com" or "notmuch search subject:topic". See
"notmuch help search-terms" for more details on the available search
syntax.

The command-line search output is not expected to be particularly
friendly for day-to-day usage. Instead, it is expected that you will
use an email interface that builds on the notmuch command-line tool or
the libnotmuch library.

Notmuch installs a full-featured email interface for use within
emacs. To use this, first add the following line to your .emacs file:

	(require 'notmuch)

Then, either run "emacs -f notmuch" or execute the command "M-x
notmuch" from within a running emacs.

If you're interested in a non-emacs-based interface to notmuch, then
please join the notmuch community. Various other interfaces are
already in progress, (an interface within vim, a curses interface,
graphical interfaces based on evolution, and various web-based
interfaces). The authors of these interfaces would love further
testing or contribution. See contact information below.

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

	http://notmuchmail.org

The mailing list address for the notmuch community is:

	notmuch@notmuchmail.org

We welcome any sort of questions, comments, kudos, or code there.

Subscription is not required, (but if you do subscribe you'll avoid
any delay due to moderation). See the website for subscription
information.

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

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