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@@ -6,12 +6,6 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
[[!toc levels=2]]
-## **Debian squeeze packages outdated**
-
-The notmuch package(s) in Debian squeeze are very old (version 0.3).
-It's better to start off with an up to date version from
-[backports](http://backports-master.debian.org/).
-
## **Receive mail**
Notmuch does not fetch mail for you. For that, you need to use an
@@ -38,13 +32,28 @@ utilities support these formats:
* [getmail](http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/)
-* [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/)
+* [fetchmail](http://www.fetchmail.info/)
* [muchsync](http://www.muchsync.org/) - replicate and synchronize
your notmuch database (mail and tags) across machines
-See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of
-messages.
+See more exhaustive list of [[software]] notmuch works with and the
+[[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages.
+
+
+## **Send mail**
+
+Notmuch does not send your mail. The frontends (MUAs) that utilize notmuch
+does that. Often these MUAs use sendmail(8) to send your mail.
+
+If you prefer a simpler solution like msmtp, first
+[install and configure msmtp](http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/).
+
+Then create a symbolic link so that msmtp will be called instead of sendmail
+when you press the keyboard shortcut to send your message.
+
+ $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/msmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail
+
## **Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags**
@@ -66,21 +75,7 @@ refer to the mailing list.
## **Use notmuch from python**
-Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared library. Please
-refer to the nice and extensive
-[notmuch python API documentation](http://notmuch.readthedocs.org/).
-
-The bindings are very simple to use. As an example, given you have
-the python bindings installed (or simply set your PYTHONPATH
-environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python directory),
-this snippet will produce a list of mails matching the given
-expression:
-
- >>> import notmuch
- >>> db = notmuch.Database()
- >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed')
- >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS
- [...]
+See the [[Notmuch Library Language Bindings|bindings]] page.
## **Using notmuch with Mutt**
@@ -94,15 +89,15 @@ However, for users running with databases created in older versions of
notmuch, these tags are missing in pre-existing messages and need to be
added. One way to do this is as follows:
- $ notmuch dump --output=~/out.nm
+ $ notmuch dump --output=$HOME/out.nm
$ mv ~/Mail/.notmuch ~/.notmuch.bak
$ notmuch new
$ notmuch tag -inbox -unread '*'
- $ notmuch restore --accumulate --input=~/out.nm
+ $ notmuch restore --accumulate --input=$HOME/out.nm
At this point, one should run a sanity check on the tags, and if everything
has merged correctly, the ~/.notmuch.bak directory is expendable, as is
-~/out.nm.
+$HOME/out.nm.
## **Dealing with mbox and other formats**
@@ -148,3 +143,6 @@ in a scenario where you have encrypted your hard disk anyway and are
comfortable with the security implications (and until notmuch can index
encrypted email itself).
+## Translations
+
+- A translation of this page into [[Russian|howto-ru]]