From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:03:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: README: Mention that notmuch only supports maildir or mh format.
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~74
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ab18d1c22c4b18b9ca8d73094b3bf10b95f35fb;ds=sidebyside

README: Mention that notmuch only supports maildir or mh format.

Justin B Rye pointed out (in Debian bug #566282) that a user with mail
in mbox format can spend a lot of time investigating notmuch before
realizing that mbox is not supported. Head that off with a more
detailed mention in the README blurb.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2c570e1d..5f029c82 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.
 
 Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
-large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to
-provide fast, full-text search with a convenient search syntax.
+large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
+the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
+search syntax.
 
 Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
 License version 3 (or later).