X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=a9510032ea69028c235300c5ce883f03f711865d;hb=8334807918ab2d732590162ed63c35b7cd83e2bb;hp=ebc2ba04a2c5a7761a74593f7b2c8e18ee9f29bf;hpb=52c2ebeb157886c6e2c2bc7d34f8645129e8f46f;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index ebc2ba0..a951003 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -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]]