for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
configure stage.
-notmuch.el installation
------------------------
-Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
-
- sudo make install-emacs
-
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
-available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
-or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
-
Dependencies
------------
-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
-which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and
+Talloc which are each described below:
Xapian
------
Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
- After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
- named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
- least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
- program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
+ Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
+ Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
+ 1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
+ when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
+ reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
+ the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
- GMime 2.4
- ---------
- GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
+ GMime 2.4 or 2.6
+ ----------------
+ GMime provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
- GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
+ GMime is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
Talloc
------
For Debian and similar:
- sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
+ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev
For Fedora and similar: