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| author | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2015-06-03 10:50:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2015-06-03 10:50:33 -0700 |
| commit | 8334807918ab2d732590162ed63c35b7cd83e2bb (patch) | |
| tree | a9574daedf7b4f5f491c556ca7d6c9c95f61e26c | |
| parent | 52c2ebeb157886c6e2c2bc7d34f8645129e8f46f (diff) | |
More attempts to rewrite the opening of the web page.
(As you might guess, I still haven't quite gotten the wiki
write-access to work yet. In the meantime, hopefully the churn here
improves things.)
| -rw-r--r-- | index.mdwn | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@ [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] # Notmuch -- Just an email system -Nomcuh is an email sytem that provides fast, global search of a local -email store. It provides command-line access for easy scripting, as -well as full-featured interfaces within consoles (or within text -editors such as emacs). It also provides a clean, library-interface in -C so that its functionality could be added to existing email programs. +If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email +system to use within your text editor or in a terminal... + +If you're the kind of person that gets excited about being able to +write shell scripts for exploring or managing your email... + +If you're a developer of an existing email program and would love a +good library interface for fast, global search with support for +arbitrary tags... + +If you want the convenience of fast, reliable search of all your +email, but don't want to give a 3rd-party access to your email... -## Why Notmuch? +Then notmuch may be exactly what you've been looking for. -Because dealing with your mail can be so much better. +## Why is it named Notmuch? * "Not much mail" is what Notmuch thinks about your email collection. Even if you receive 12000 messages per month or have on @@ -40,15 +47,6 @@ Because dealing with your mail can be so much better. interface and Xapian does all the heavy lifting, then what's left here? Not much. -If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email -reader to use within your text editor or in a terminal, then Notmuch -may be exactly what you've been looking for. - -If you're a developer of an existing email program and would love a -good library interface for fast, global search with support for -arbitrary tags, then Notmuch also may be exactly what you've been -looking for. - ## News [[The latest news from notmuch|news]] |