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+notmuch -- The python interface to notmuch.so
+==============================================
+
+This module makes the functionality of the notmuch library
+(`http://notmuchmail.org`_) available to python. Successful import of
+this modul depends on a libnotmuch.so|dll being available on the
+user's system.
+
+If you have downloaded the full source tarball, you can create the
+documentation with sphinx installed, go to the docs directory and
+"make html". A static version of the documentation is available at:
+
+http://packages.python.org/cnotmuch/
+
+The current source code is being hosted at
+http://bitbucket.org/spaetz/cnotmuch which also provides an issue
+tracker, and release downloads. This package is tracked by the python
+package index repository at `http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cnotmuch`_ and can thus be installed on a user's computer easily via "sudo easy_install cnotmuch" (you will still need to install the notmuch shared library separately as it is not included in this package).
+
+The original source has been provided by (c)Sebastian Spaeth, 2010.
+All code is available under the GNU GPLv3+ (see docs/COPYING) unless specified otherwise.
+
+
+INSTALLATION & DEINSTALL
+------------------------
+
+cnotmuch is available on pypi.python.org. This means you can do
+"easy_install cnotmuch" on your linux box and it will get installed
+into:
+
+/usr/local/lib/python2.x/dist-packages/
+
+For uninstalling, you'll need to remove the "cnotmuch-0.1-py2.x.egg"
+directory and delete one entry in the "easy-install.pth" file in that
+directory.
+
+It needs to have a libnotmuch.so or libnotmuch.so.1 available in some
+library folder or will raise an exception when loading.
+"OSError: libnotmuch.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+For more examples of how to use the cnotmuch interface, have a look at the
+notmuch "binary" and the generated documentation.
+
+Example session:
+>>>import notmuch
+>>>db = notmuch.Database("/home/spaetz/mail")
+db.get_path()
+'/home/spaetz/mail'
+>>>tags = db.get_all_tags()
+>>>for tag in tags: 
+>>>  print tag
+inbox
+...
+maildir::draft
+#---------------------------------------------
+
+q = notmuch.Query(db,'from:Sebastian')
+count = len(q.search_messages())
+1300
+
+#---------------------------------------------
+
+>>>db = notmuch.Database("/home/spaetz/mailHAHA")
+NotmuchError: Could not open the specified database
+
+#---------------------------------------------
+
+>>>tags = notmuch.Database("/home/spaetz/mail").get_all_tags()
+>>>del(tags)
+
+
+Building for a Debian package
+------------------------------
+dpkg-buildpackage -i"\.hg|\/build"
+
+
+Changelog
+---------
+0.1   First public release
+0.1.1 Fixed Database.create_query()
+0.2.0 Implemented Thread() and Threads() methods
+0.2.1 Implemented the remaining API methods, notably Directory() and Filenames()
+0.2.2 Bug fixes
+0.3.0 Incorporated in the notmuchmail.org git repository
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