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 [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
-# Notmuch -- The mail indexer
+# Notmuch -- Just an email system
+
+Nomcuh is an email sytem that provides fast, global search of a local
+email store. It provides command-line access for easy scripting, as
+well as full-featured interfaces within consoles (or within text
+editors such as emacs). It also provides a clean, library-interface in
+C so that its functionality could be added to existing email programs.
 
 ## Why Notmuch?
 
@@ -16,7 +22,7 @@ Because dealing with your mail can be so much better.
   that you can keep your inbox tamed and focus on what really matters
   in your life, (which is surely not email).
 
-* Notmuch is an answer to [Sup](http://sup.rubyforge.org/).
+* Notmuch is an answer to [Sup](http://supmua.org/).
   Sup is a very good email program written by William Morgan (and
   others) and is the direct inspiration for Notmuch. Notmuch began as
   an effort to rewrite performance-critical pieces of Sup in C rather
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 Contributions, such as patches, to Notmuch are most welcome. Please refer to the
 [[guide to contributing|contributing]].
 
-## Bug and patch tracking
+## Troubleshooting and reporting bugs
 
-The tagging and filtering features of notmuch make it quite suitable
-for use as a bug- and patch-tracker. We are currently experimenting
-with using it for this purpose for notmuch development, using a
-utility called [[nmbug]]. The status of bugs and current patches can also be
-followed [online](http://nmbug.tethera.net/status).
+For hints about troubleshooting and bug reporting see [[bugs]].
 
-Bug reports should be sent to the Notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org.
+For a list of known bugs see the [[nmbug status page|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status/#Bugs]]
 
 ## Contact: Email & IRC
 
@@ -164,4 +166,5 @@ for non-subscribers.
 ## Website
 
 This wiki is maintained using [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). Here are
-[[instructions on how to edit the wiki|wikiwriteaccess]].
+[[instructions on how to edit the wiki|wikiwriteaccess]]. The wiki contents are
+mostly [[dual licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0 and GPLv3+|COPYING]].