NEWS for release 0.23.4

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@@ -6,12 +6,6 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
 
 [[!toc levels=2]]
 
-## <span id="debian_packages">**Debian squeeze packages outdated**</span>
-
-The notmuch package(s) in Debian squeeze are very old (version 0.3).
-It's better to start off with an up to date version from
-[backports](http://backports-master.debian.org/).
-
 ## <span id="receive_mail">**Receive mail**</span>
 
 Notmuch does not fetch mail for you.  For that, you need to use an
@@ -43,8 +37,23 @@ utilities support these formats:
 * [muchsync](http://www.muchsync.org/) - replicate and synchronize
   your notmuch database (mail and tags) across machines
 
-See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of
-messages.
+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>
 
@@ -66,21 +75,7 @@ refer to the mailing list.
 
 ## <span id="python">**Use notmuch from python**</span>
 
-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.
 
 ## <span id="print_filenames">**Using notmuch with Mutt**</span>
 
@@ -94,15 +89,15 @@ 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=~/out.nm
+        $ notmuch dump --output=$HOME/out.nm
         $ mv ~/Mail/.notmuch ~/.notmuch.bak
         $ notmuch new
         $ notmuch tag -inbox -unread '*'
-        $ notmuch restore --accumulate --input=~/out.nm
+        $ 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
-~/out.nm.
+$HOME/out.nm.
 
 ## <span id="mbox">**Dealing with mbox and other formats**</span>