Write a "notmuch tag" command to add/remove tags from messages matching a search query. Write a "notmuch show" that displays a single thread. Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the same message-ID values as sup). Think about this race condition: A client executes "notmuch search" Then executes "notmuch show" on a thread While user is reading, new mail is added to database for the thread Client asks for the thread to be archived. The bug here is that email that was never read will be archived. That's bad. With the command set above, the user can avoid the problem by just not running "notmuch new" while reading mail, but the same problems exists with the API. One possible solution would be to store an additional timestamp with each mail document for the time it was added to the database. Then searches could return a timestamp, and the client could pass that same timestamp back to the archive command to not modify any messages with a timestamp newer than what's passed.