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@@ -11,6 +11,24 @@ Reply to sender
   to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
   --reply-to=(all|sender).
 
+Tag exclusion
+
+  Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
+  to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
+
+  This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
+  tag in your query, for example:
+
+    notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
+
+  Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
+  the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
+
+  For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
+  tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
+
+    notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
+
 Mail store folder/file ignore
 
    A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a