maildir sync: also link to special tags with list over relevant tags.

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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**Debian squeeze packages outdated**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
@@ -38,19 +32,36 @@ utilities support these formats:
 
 * [getmail](http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/)
 
-* [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/)
+* [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 for the respective tags see your
+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:
 
@@ -80,15 +91,15 @@ 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>
 
@@ -134,3 +145,6 @@ 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]]