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| author | David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> | 2019-02-17 07:30:33 -0400 |
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| committer | David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> | 2019-02-17 07:30:33 -0400 |
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@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +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: + + (autoload 'notmuch "notmuch" "Notmuch mail" t) + +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: + + https://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 |
