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Austin Clements ed720f4e6d emacs: Simplify and fix `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender'
`notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' is over-engineered and often wrong.
It attempts to detect when all identities have the same name and
specialize the prompt to just the email address part.  However, to do
this it uses `mail-extract-address-components', which is meant for
displaying email addresses, not general-purpose parsing, and hence
performs many canonicalizations that can interfere with this use.  For
example, configuring notmuch-identities to ("Austin
<austin@example.com>"), will cause `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' to
lose the name part entirely and return " <austin@example.com>".

This patch rewrites `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' to simply prompt
for a full identity when notmuch-identities is configured, or to
prompt for a sender address when it isn't.

The original code also did several strange things, like using `eval'
and specifying that this function was interactive.  As a side-effect,
this patch fixes these problems.  And it adds a docstring.
2014-03-04 19:59:35 -04:00
bindings ruby bindings message: docstring typo 2014-02-21 21:13:03 -04:00
compat new: Detect dirent.d_type support at configure time 2014-02-14 08:42:45 -04:00
completion completion: bash completion for notmuch new --quiet option 2014-02-03 16:19:49 -04:00
contrib remove notmuch-pick 2013-11-13 21:24:05 -04:00
debian NEWS: note closing of id:87ty19pi85.fsf@zancas.localnet 2014-03-03 08:49:36 -04:00
devel nmbug-status: replace __values__() with values() in OrderedDict stub 2014-02-21 21:12:45 -04:00
emacs emacs: Simplify and fix `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' 2014-03-04 19:59:35 -04:00
lib doc: notmuch_result_move_to_next -> notmuch_tags_move_to_next 2014-02-13 08:43:34 -04:00
man man: escape backslash in notmuch-tag example 2014-02-23 08:56:40 -04:00
packaging packaging: fedora: add ruby bindings 2013-06-02 08:03:47 -03:00
parse-time-string timegm: add portable implementation (Solaris support) 2013-08-23 17:57:35 +02:00
performance-test perf-test: bump version to 0.4, use manifest files 2013-12-10 04:00:38 +08:00
test test: Simplify CLEAN list construction 2014-02-25 20:53:54 -04:00
util util: detect byte order 2013-11-27 07:43:29 -04:00
vim vim: add help file 2013-11-20 07:23:30 -06:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: changed one-char comment prefix '; ' to two; '; ; ' 2012-01-22 08:41:37 -04:00
.gitignore emacs: update .gitignore 2013-06-02 20:44:26 -03:00
AUTHORS Drop date.c file, (use identical function from GMime instead). 2009-11-02 14:36:33 -08:00
command-line-arguments.c cli: command line option parser cleanup 2014-02-25 20:53:41 -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 new: Detect dirent.d_type support at configure time 2014-02-14 08:42:45 -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
crypto.c crypto: return NULL cryptoctx if protocol string is empty. 2013-07-20 09:13:48 -03:00
debugger.c notmuch-new: Only install SIGALRM if not running under gdb 2009-11-22 05:36:36 +01:00
dump-restore-private.h notmuch-dump: add --format=(batch-tag|sup) 2012-12-08 10:40:54 -04:00
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 Recommend libgmime-2.6-dev in INSTALL 2012-05-24 21:54:30 -03:00
Makefile build: fix out-of-tree builds 2013-05-26 18:49:04 -03:00
Makefile.local build: delete the default .SUFFIXES 2014-01-25 13:09:45 -04:00
mime-node.c cli: mime node: fix compiler warning when building against gmime 2.4 2013-04-14 19:49:16 -03:00
NEWS NEWS: note closing of id:87ty19pi85.fsf@zancas.localnet 2014-03-03 08:49:36 -04:00
notmuch-client.h search: Add stable queries to thread search results 2013-11-08 20:43:29 -04:00
notmuch-compact.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-config.c cli: abstract common config get/set code 2014-01-18 20:09:49 -04:00
notmuch-count.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-dump.c notmuch dump: default to batch-tag format. 2014-01-24 08:52:09 -04:00
notmuch-insert.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-new.c new: Detect dirent.d_type support at configure time 2014-02-14 08:42:45 -04:00
notmuch-reply.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-restore.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-search.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-setup.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-show.c notmuch-show: detect NULL pointer returned from notmuch_query_search_threads 2014-01-24 20:24:11 -04:00
notmuch-tag.c cli: clean up exit status code returned by the cli commands 2014-01-18 14:45:26 -04:00
notmuch-time.c Add some const correctness to talloc 'ctx' parameter. 2009-11-17 19:10:37 -08:00
notmuch.c cli: close config and do talloc report also on errors 2014-01-18 14:46:05 -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
sprinter-json.c sprinters: bugfix when NULL passed for a string. 2012-08-12 21:25:01 +02:00
sprinter-sexp.c Adding an S-expression structured output printer. 2012-12-08 09:26:29 -04:00
sprinter-text.c sprinter: add text0 formatter for null character separated text 2012-12-18 17:03:34 -04:00
sprinter.h sprinter: add text0 formatter for null character separated text 2012-12-18 17:03:34 -04:00
tag-util.c tag-util: do not reset list in parse_tag_command_line 2013-06-29 14:36:23 -03:00
tag-util.h tag-util: do not reset list in parse_tag_command_line 2013-06-29 14:36:23 -03:00
version version: bump to 0.17 2013-12-30 20:34:23 -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