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# How to...
Some tips about how to do some useful things with notmuch, and the
@@ -39,8 +40,11 @@ utilities support these formats:
* [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/)
-See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of
-messages.
+* [muchsync](http://www.muchsync.org/) - replicate and synchronize
+ your notmuch database (mail and tags) across machines
+
+See more exhaustive list of [[software]] notmuch works with and the
+[[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages.
## **Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags**
@@ -62,21 +66,7 @@ refer to the mailing list.
## **Use notmuch from python**
-Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared library. Please
-refer to the nice and extensive
-[notmuch python API documentation](http://notmuch.readthedocs.org/).
-
-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 snippet will produce a list of mails matching the given
-expression:
-
- >>> import notmuch
- >>> db = notmuch.Database()
- >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed')
- >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS
- [...]
+See the [[Notmuch Library Language Bindings|bindings]] page.
## **Using notmuch with Mutt**
@@ -125,6 +115,22 @@ 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.
+
## **Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch**
See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]].
+
+
+## **Index all your gpg-encrypted email**
+
+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).
+