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-#How to...
+# How to...
 
-##<span id="print_filenames">.. print only filenames of a search</span>
+Some tips about how to do some useful things with notmuch, and the
+various "third party" notmuch utilities.
 
-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:
+[[!toc levels=2]]
 
-                                #!/usr/bin/env python
-                                import sys
-                                import notmuch
-                                
-                                q = notmuch.Database().create_query(" ".join(sys.argv[1:]))
-                                for m in q.search_messages(): print m.get_filename()
+## <span id="receive_mail">**Receive mail**</span>
+
+Notmuch does not fetch mail for you.  For that, you need to use an
+external mail syncing utility.  Some recommended utilities are listed
+below.
+
+Notmuch requires that every individual message be in it's own file.
+The well-supported [maildir](http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) or
+"mh"-style storage formats are compatible with notmuch.  Basically any
+setup in which each mail is in a file of its own will work.  The older
+mbox mail store formats is not supported, but fortunately it is very
+easy to [[convert mbox to maildir|howto/#mbox]] .  The following
+utilities support these formats:
+
+* [offlineimap](http://offlineimap.org/) -
+  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://www.fetchmail.info/)
+
+* [muchsync](http://www.muchsync.org/) - replicate and synchronize
+  your notmuch database (mail and tags) across machines
+
+* [gmailieer](https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer) - Fast email-fetching and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail
+
+See more exhaustive list of [[software]] notmuch works with and the
+[[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages.
+
+
+## <span id="send_mail">**Send mail**</span>
+
+Notmuch does not send your mail. The frontends (MUAs) that utilize notmuch
+does that. Often these MUAs use sendmail(8) to send your mail.
+
+If you prefer a simpler solution like msmtp, first
+[install and configure msmtp](http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/).
+
+Then create a symbolic link so that msmtp will be called instead of sendmail
+when you press the keyboard shortcut to send your message.
+
+    $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/msmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail
+
+
+## <span id="sync_maildir_flags">**Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags**</span>
+
+notmuch has the ability to synchronize maildir flags and respective tags in both
+directions. For more information on maildir flags see the [maildir
+page](http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) and [[Special tags|special-tags]], and for the respective tags see your
+notmuch configuration file. This feature is enabled by default, but if you don't
+need it, it is simple to disable it with the 'notmuch config' command:
+
+        $ notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
+
+The maildir flags may, in turn, be synchronized with IMAP flags by another tool,
+such as offlineimap.
+
+For safety reasons, and because
+[[notmuch does not support delete operations|deleting]], notmuch does
+not sync the "trashed" flag.  For discussion on this topic please
+refer to the mailing list.
+
+## <span id="python">**Use notmuch from python**</span>
+
+See the [[Notmuch Library Language Bindings|bindings]] page.
+
+## <span id="print_filenames">**Using notmuch with Mutt**</span>
+
+See [[notmuch-mutt]].
+
+## <span id="reapply_auto">**Automatically retagging the database (e.g., when upgrading versions)**</span>
+
+Certain versions of notmuch include new automatic tags (for example, between
+0.3 and 0.10, automatic tagging of signed and encrypted messages was added).
+However, for users running with databases created in older versions of
+notmuch, these tags are missing in pre-existing messages and need to be
+added.  One way to do this is as follows:
+
+        $ notmuch dump --output=$HOME/out.nm
+        $ mv ~/Mail/.notmuch ~/.notmuch.bak
+        $ notmuch new
+        $ notmuch tag -inbox -unread '*'
+        $ notmuch restore --accumulate --input=$HOME/out.nm
+
+At this point, one should run a sanity check on the tags, and if everything
+has merged correctly, the ~/.notmuch.bak directory is expendable, as is
+$HOME/out.nm.
+
+## <span id="mbox">**Dealing with mbox and other formats**</span>
+
+notmuch by itself is unable to handle non-maildir mail archives.  One tool
+to solve this is called mb2md.  Assuming an mbox in ~/test.mbox and ones
+mail archives to be in ~/Mail, an invocation would look like
+
+        $ mb2md -s ~/test.mbox -d ~/Mail/mynewmaildirname
+
+Note that specifying the paths for -s and -d is necessary.  This will create
+a new maildir in ~/Mail/mynewmaildirname from the mbox at ~/test.mbox.
+
+Often the formats are more convoluted, however.  Many lists provide an
+almost-but-not-quite-mbox format that mailman produces, as can be seen, for
+example, [here](http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/).  These
+files can be converted with some degree of success to mbox using the script
+found
+[here](http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/converting-mailman-gzipd-text-archive-files-to-proper-mbox-files),
+and from mbox to maildir as above.
+
+However, many of these lists also have a gmane version, which, where it
+exists, achieves far better results than dealing with the messy mailman
+output.  Using the instructions from [Gmane's
+site](http://gmane.org/export.php), we can download an mbox file, which we
+can then convert to maildir using mb2md or other utility.
+
+Please note that mail delivered by Postfix will have envelope headers
+that may cause notmuch to complain about "single-message mbox files".
+Removing the first line from the message or passing it through
+reformail will solve the problem.
+
+## <span id="special_tags">**Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch**</span>
+
+See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]].
+
+
+## <span id="special_tags">**Index all your gpg-encrypted email**</span>
+
+If you don't mind replacing your encrypted emails with cleartext versions and
+re-indexing them, there are some scripts that do that at
+[github](https://github.com/mmehnert/maildir-decrypt) . That would make sense
+in a scenario where you have encrypted your hard disk anyway and are
+comfortable with the security implications (and until notmuch can index
+encrypted email itself).
+
+## Translations
+
+- A translation of this page into [[Russian|howto-ru]]