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While looked good on paper, its attempted use caused confusion, complexity, and potential for information leak when passed through wrapper scripts. For slimmer code and to lessen demand for maintenance/support the set of commits which added top level --stderr= option is now reverted.
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.\" notmuch - Not much of an email program, (just index, search and tagging)
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.\"
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.\" Copyright © 2009 Carl Worth
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.\"
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.\" Notmuch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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.\" (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" Notmuch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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.\" along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
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.\"
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.\" Author: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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.TH NOTMUCH 1 2013-02-17 "Notmuch 0.15.2"
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.SH NAME
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notmuch \- thread-based email index, search, and tagging
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B notmuch
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.RI "[" option " ...] " command " [" arg " ...]"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching,
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reading, and tagging large collections of email messages.
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This page describes how to get started using notmuch from the command
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line, and gives a brief overview of the commands available. For more
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information on e.g.
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.B notmuch show
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consult the \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1) man page, also accessible via
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.B notmuch help show
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The quickest way to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
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.B notmuch
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command with no arguments, which will interactively guide you through
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the process of indexing your mail.
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.SH NOTE
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While the command-line program
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.B notmuch
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provides powerful functionality, it does not provide the most
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convenient interface for that functionality. More sophisticated
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interfaces are expected to be built on top of either the command-line
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interface, or more likely, on top of the notmuch library
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interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for more about alternate
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interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available under
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.B emacs/
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in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably the most widely used at
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this time.
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.SH OPTIONS
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Supported global options for
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.B notmuch
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include
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-help
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Print a synopsis of available commands and exit.
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-version
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Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-config=FILE
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Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any
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configuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG}.
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.RE
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.SH COMMANDS
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.SS SETUP
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The
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.B notmuch setup
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command is used to configure Notmuch for first use, (or to reconfigure
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it later).
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The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
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address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory
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containing your email archives. Your answers will be written to a
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configuration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or
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${HOME}/.notmuch-config . This configuration file will be created with
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descriptive comments, making it easy to edit by hand later to change the
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configuration. Or you can run
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.B "notmuch setup"
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again to change the configuration.
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The mail directory you specify can contain any number of
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sub-directories and should primarily contain only files with individual
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email messages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect). If there are
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other, non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email
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programs) then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore
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them.
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Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
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messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is
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currently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir
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format with a utility such as mb2md before running
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.B "notmuch setup" .
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Invoking
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.B notmuch
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with no command argument will run
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.B setup
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if the setup command has not previously been completed.
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.RE
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.SS OTHER COMMANDS
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Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common
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syntax. See \fNnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7)
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for more details on the supported syntax.
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The
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.BR search ", " show " and " count
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commands are used to query the email database.
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The
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.B reply
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command is useful for preparing a template for an email reply.
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The
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.B tag
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command is the only command available for manipulating database
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contents.
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The
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.BR dump " and " restore
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commands can be used to create a textual dump of email tags for backup
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purposes, and to restore from that dump.
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The
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.B config
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command can be used to get or set settings int the notmuch
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configuration file.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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The following environment variables can be used to control the
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behavior of notmuch.
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.TP
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.B NOTMUCH_CONFIG
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Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
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use ${HOME}/.notmuch\-config if this variable is not set.
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.TP
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.B NOTMUCH_TALLOC_REPORT
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Location to write a talloc memory usage report. See
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.B talloc_enable_leak_report_full
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in \fBtalloc\fR(3)
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for more information.
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.TP
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.B NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY
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If set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to stderr) Xapian
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queries it constructs.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-search\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7),
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\fBnotmuch-show\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)
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The notmuch website:
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.B http://notmuchmail.org
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.SH CONTACT
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Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
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list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> . Subscription is not required before
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posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
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Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
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(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
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