News for release 0.38.3

[notmuch-wiki] / notmuch-mutt.mdwn

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 [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
-# Using Notmuch with Mutt
+# Using Notmuch with bare Mutt, the old fashioned way
 
 Notmuch is a great mail indexing tool that can also be used *in conjunction*
 with existing Mail User Agents (MUA) instead of replacing them. The advantage of
 such mixed solutions is that users can benefit from notmuch features (such as
 full-text search and thread reconstruction) without *having to* change MUA.
 
-A popular geek MUA is [the Mutt e-mail client](http://www.mutt.org); integrating
-notmuch with Mutt is not seamless, but fairly straightforward. There are two
-principal possibilities, each with its own ups and downs:
+The `notmuch-mutt` script shipping with Notmuch bridges the gap between Notmuch
+and Mutt.
 
-* Using
-  [notmuch-mutt](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/tree/HEAD:/contrib/notmuch-mutt),
+## Using
+  [notmuch-mutt](https://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/tree/HEAD:/contrib/notmuch-mutt),
   which will create a "virtual" maildir folder with search results whenever a
   search is made. The upside is that you can search all your folders
-  simultanously; the downside is that your modifications in the results listing
+  simultaneously; the downside is that your modifications in the results listing
   do not carry over, also having to switch folders comes with some more
   annoyances.
 
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ principal possibilities, each with its own ups and downs:
   [available](http://git.upsilon.cc/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=zack-homepage.git;a=history;f=blog/posts/2011/01/how_to_use_Notmuch_with_Mutt.mdwn)
   in markdown syntax from the Git repository of my homepage.)</small>
 
-* Using a simple macro that will emulate the "limit" mutt functionality
+## Using a simple macro that will emulate the "limit" mutt functionality
   using notmuch.
 
   See the [alternative notmuch integration](http://log.or.cz/?p=228)
@@ -46,3 +45,7 @@ principal possibilities, each with its own ups and downs:
   your original folder.  The downside is that this approach has scaling problems
   and works well only for reasonably specific queries.
 
+## Using [notmuchfs](https://github.com/tsto/notmuchfs)
+
+  Notmuchfs provides virtual maildirs at the file system level, and mutt can be
+  placed on top. See [README.mutt](https://github.com/tsto/notmuchfs/blob/master/README.MUTT.md)