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-# Using Notmuch with Mutt
+# Using Notmuch with bare Mutt, the old fashioned way
Notmuch is a great mail indexing tool that can also be used *in conjunction*
with existing Mail User Agents (MUA) instead of replacing them. The advantage of
such mixed solutions is that users can benefit from notmuch features (such as
full-text search and thread reconstruction) without *having to* change MUA.
-A popular geek MUA is [the Mutt e-mail client](http://www.mutt.org); integrating
-notmuch with Mutt is not seamless, but fairly straightforward. There are two
-principal possibilities, each with its own ups and downs:
+The `notmuch-mutt` script shipping with Notmuch bridges the gap between Notmuch
+and Mutt.
-* Using
- [notmuch-mutt](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/tree/HEAD:/contrib/notmuch-mutt),
+## Using
+ [notmuch-mutt](https://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/tree/HEAD:/contrib/notmuch-mutt),
which will create a "virtual" maildir folder with search results whenever a
search is made. The upside is that you can search all your folders
- simultanously; the downside is that your modifications in the results listing
+ simultaneously; the downside is that your modifications in the results listing
do not carry over, also having to switch folders comes with some more
annoyances.
[available](http://git.upsilon.cc/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=zack-homepage.git;a=history;f=blog/posts/2011/01/how_to_use_Notmuch_with_Mutt.mdwn)
in markdown syntax from the Git repository of my homepage.)</small>
-* Using a simple macro that will emulate the "limit" mutt functionality
+## Using a simple macro that will emulate the "limit" mutt functionality
using notmuch.
See the [alternative notmuch integration](http://log.or.cz/?p=228)
your original folder. The downside is that this approach has scaling problems
and works well only for reasonably specific queries.
+## Using [notmuchfs](https://github.com/tsto/notmuchfs)
+
+ Notmuchfs provides virtual maildirs at the file system level, and mutt can be
+ placed on top. See [README.mutt](https://github.com/tsto/notmuchfs/blob/master/README.MUTT.md)