}
/* Handle the case of "notmuch" being invoked with no command
- * argument. Print a welcome and explanatory message, then invoke
- * notmuch_setup_command.
+ * argument. For now we just call notmuch_setup_command, but we plan
+ * to be more clever about this in the future.
*/
static int
notmuch (void *ctx)
{
- int ret;
+ notmuch_config_t *config;
+ notmuch_bool_t is_new;
+ char *db_path;
+ struct stat st;
- printf (
-"Welcome to notmuch!\n\n"
+ config = notmuch_config_open (ctx, NULL, &is_new);
-"The goal of notmuch is to help you manage and search your collection of\n"
-"email, and to efficiently keep up with the flow of email as it comes in.\n\n"
-
-"Notmuch needs to know a few things about you such as your name and email\n"
-"address, as well as the directory that contains your email. This is where\n"
-"you already have mail stored and where messages will be delivered in the\n"
-"future. This directory can contain any number of sub-directories. Regular\n"
-"files in these directories should be individual email messages. If there\n"
-"are other, non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email\n"
-"programs) then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore them.\n\n"
-
-"If you already have your email being delivered to directories in either\n"
-"maildir or mh format, then that's perfect. Mail storage that uses mbox\n"
-"format, (where one mbox file contains many messages), will not work with\n"
-"notmuch. If that's how your mail is currently stored, we recommend you\n"
-"first convert it to maildir format with a utility such as mb2md. You can\n"
-"continue configuring notmuch now, but be sure to complete the conversion\n"
-"before you run \"notmuch new\" for the first time.\n\n");
+ /* If the user has never configured notmuch, then run
+ * notmuch_setup_command which will give a nice welcome message,
+ * and interactively guide the user through the configuration. */
+ if (is_new) {
+ notmuch_config_close (config);
+ return notmuch_setup_command (ctx, 0, NULL);
+ }
- ret = notmuch_setup_command (ctx, 0, NULL);
+ /* Notmuch is already configured, but is there a database? */
+ db_path = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s/%s",
+ notmuch_config_get_database_path (config),
+ ".notmuch");
+ if (stat (db_path, &st)) {
+ notmuch_config_close (config);
+ if (errno != ENOENT) {
+ fprintf (stderr, "Error looking for notmuch database at %s: %s\n",
+ db_path, strerror (errno));
+ return 1;
+ }
+ printf ("Notmuch is configured, but there's not yet a database at\n\n\t%s\n\n",
+ db_path);
+ printf ("You probably want to run \"notmuch new\" now to create that database.\n\n"
+ "Note that the first run of \"notmuch new\" can take a very long time\n"
+ "and that the resulting database will use roughly the same amount of\n"
+ "storage space as the email being indexed.\n\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
- printf ("\n"
-"Notmuch is now configured, and the configuration settings are saved in\n"
-"a file in your home directory named .notmuch-config . If you'd like to\n"
-"change the configuration in the future, you can either edit that file\n"
-"directly or run \"notmuch setup\".\n\n"
+ printf ("Notmuch is configured and appears to have a database. Excellent!\n\n"
+ "At this point you can start exploring the functionality of notmuch by\n"
+ "using commands such as:\n\n"
+ "\tnotmuch search tag:inbox\n\n"
+ "\tnotmuch search to:\"%s\"\n\n"
+ "\tnotmuch search from:\"%s\"\n\n"
+ "\tnotmuch search subject:\"my favorite things\"\n\n"
+ "See \"notmuch help search\" for more details.\n\n"
+ "You can also use \"notmuch show\" with any of the thread IDs resulting\n"
+ "from a search. Finally, you may want to explore using a more sophisticated\n"
+ "interface to notmuch such as the emacs interface implemented in notmuch.el\n"
+ "or any other interface described at http://notmuchmail.org\n\n"
+ "And don't forget to run \"notmuch new\" whenever new mail arrives.\n\n"
+ "Have fun, and may your inbox never have much mail.\n\n",
+ notmuch_config_get_user_name (config),
+ notmuch_config_get_user_primary_email (config));
-"The next step is to run \"notmuch new\" which will create a database\n"
-"that indexes all of your mail. Depending on the amount of mail you have\n"
-"the initial indexing process can take a long time, so expect that.\n"
-"Also, the resulting database will require roughly the same amount of\n"
-"storage space as your current collection of email. So please ensure you\n"
-"have sufficient storage space available now.\n\n");
+ notmuch_config_close (config);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
int
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