Some tips about how to do some useful things with notmuch, and the
various "third party" notmuch utilities.
-* <span id="print_filenames">Print only filenames of a search</span>
+* <span id="receive_mail">**Receive mail**</span>
- Given you have the python bindings installed (or simply set your
- PYTHONPATH environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python
- directory), this script will print the filenames of a matching
- search:
+ Notmuch requires either [maildir
+ flag](http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) or a "mh"-style
+ maildirectory to operate on. Basically any setup in which each mail
+ is in a file of it's own will work. Here are some generally
+ well-regarded mail retrieval tools:
+
+ * [offlineimap](http://software.complete.org/software/projects/show/offlineimap) - quite
+ useful and widely tested, it also offers a handy hook that
+ will come in useful a bit later in our setup. Also supports
+ "presynchook" and "postsynchook" command that will get run
+ whenever you sync. Point _postsynchook_ to a script that gets run
+ on every sync and that will do the automatic updating and tagging
+ of your notmuch database.
+
+ * [mbsync](http://isync.sourceforge.net/)
+
+ * [getmail](http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/)
+
+ * [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/)
+
+See the [initial tagging page](/initial_taggin) for more info on intial tagging of messages.
+
+* <span id="print_filenames">**Print only filenames of a search (python bindings)**</span>
+
+ Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared library,
+ called [cnotmuch](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cnotmuch). Extensive
+ API documentation available.
+
+ The bindings are very simple to use. As an example, given you have
+ the python bindings installed (or simply set your PYTHONPATH
+ environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python directory),
+ this script will print the filenames of a matching search:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
for m in q.search_messages():
print m.get_filename()
-* <span id="sync_maildir_flags">Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags</span>
+* <span id="sync_maildir_flags">**Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags**</span>
Some IMAP users rely on maildir flags that convey the status "seen",
"replied", "trashed", in order to synchronize the status of their
ways in which you can achieve synchronization.
[notmuchsync](http://spaetz.github.com/notmuchsync/) is a utility
- that allows synchronization in either direction, as well as pruning
- of deleted files.
+ (based on the cnotmuch python bindings) that allows synchronization
+ in either direction, as well as pruning of deleted files.
The second solution allows for fast maildir flag to notmuch tag
synchronization (and only in that direction) requires patching the
*id:1267450136-31749-1-git-send-email-Sebastian@SSpaeth.de* and can
be viewed as a [source diff in this git
repository](http://github.com/spaetz/notmuch-all-feature/commit/df3b087cefb85e9d16fd17540e348bcb854dd7ee).
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