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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
SYNOPSIS
- notmuch show [options...] <search-term>...
+ notmuch show [option ...] <search-term> ...
DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,152 +20,158 @@
The messages will be grouped and sorted based on the threading (all
replies to a particular message will appear immediately after that mes-
sage in date order). The output is not indented by default, but depth
- tags are printed so that proper indentation can be performed by a post-
- processor (such as the emacs interface to notmuch).
+ tags are printed so that proper indentation can be performed by a
+ post-processor (such as the emacs interface to notmuch).
Supported options for show include
--entire-thread=(true|false)
- If true, notmuch show outputs all messages in the thread of any
- message matching the search terms; if false, it outputs only
- the matching messages. For --format=json and --format=sexp this
- defaults to true. For other formats, this defaults to false.
-
- --format=(text|json|sexp|mbox|raw)
-
- text (default for messages)
-
- The default plain-text format has all text-content MIME
- parts decoded. Various components in the output, (message,
- header, body, attachment, and MIME part), will be delimited
- by easily-parsed markers. Each marker consists of a Con-
- trol-L character (ASCII decimal 12), the name of the
- marker, and then either an opening or closing brace, ('{'
- or '}'), to either open or close the component. For a mul-
- tipart MIME message, these parts will be nested.
-
- json
-
- The output is formatted with Javascript Object Notation
- (JSON). This format is more robust than the text format for
- automated processing. The nested structure of multipart
- MIME messages is reflected in nested JSON output. By
- default JSON output includes all messages in a matching
- thread; that is, by default,
-
- --format=json sets --entire-thread The caller can disable
- this behaviour by setting --entire-thread=false
-
- sexp
-
- The output is formatted as an S-Expression (sexp). This
- format is more robust than the text format for automated
- processing. The nested structure of multipart MIME messages
- is reflected in nested S-Expression output. By default, S-
- Expression output includes all messages in a matching
- thread; that is, by default,
-
- --format=sexp sets --entire-thread The caller can disable
- this behaviour by setting --entire-thread=false
-
- mbox
-
- All matching messages are output in the traditional, Unix
- mbox format with each message being prefixed by a line
- beginning with "From " and a blank line separating each
- message. Lines in the message content beginning with "From
- " (preceded by zero or more '>' characters) have an addi-
- tional '>' character added. This reversible escaping is
- termed "mboxrd" format and described in detail here:
-
- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
-
- raw (default for a single part, see --part)
-
- For a message or an attached message part, the original,
- raw content of the email message is output. Consumers of
- this format should expect to implement MIME decoding and
- similar functions.
-
- For a single part (--part) the raw part content is output
- after performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that
- messages with a simple body still have two parts: part 0 is
- the whole message and part 1 is the body.
-
- For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including
- all child parts) is output.
-
- The raw format must only be used with search terms matching
- single message.
+ If true, notmuch show outputs all messages in the thread of
+ any message matching the search terms; if false, it outputs
+ only the matching messages. For --format=json and --for-
+ mat=sexp this defaults to true. For other formats, this
+ defaults to false.
+
+ --format=(text|json|sexp|mbox|raw)
+
+ text (default for messages)
+
+ The default plain-text format has all text-content MIME
+ parts decoded. Various components in the output, (mes-
+ sage, header, body, attachment, and MIME part), will be
+ delimited by easily-parsed markers. Each marker consists
+ of a Control-L character (ASCII decimal 12), the name of
+ the marker, and then either an opening or closing brace,
+ ('{' or '}'), to either open or close the component. For
+ a multipart MIME message, these parts will be nested.
+
+ json
+
+ The output is formatted with Javascript Object Notation
+ (JSON). This format is more robust than the text format
+ for automated processing. The nested structure of multi-
+ part MIME messages is reflected in nested JSON output. By
+ default JSON output includes all messages in a matching
+ thread; that is, by default, --format=json sets
+ --entire-thread. The caller can disable this behaviour by
+ setting --entire-thread=false. The JSON output is always
+ encoded as UTF-8 and any message content included in the
+ output will be charset-converted to UTF-8.
+
+ sexp
+
+ The output is formatted as the Lisp s-expression (sexp)
+ equivalent of the JSON format above. Objects are format-
+ ted as property lists whose keys are keywords (symbols
+ preceded by a colon). True is formatted as t and both
+ false and null are formatted as nil. As for JSON, the
+ s-expression output is always encoded as UTF-8.
+
+ mbox
+
+ All matching messages are output in the traditional, Unix
+ mbox format with each message being prefixed by a line
+ beginning with "From " and a blank line separating each
+ message. Lines in the message content beginning with
+ "From " (preceded by zero or more '>' characters) have an
+ additional '>' character added. This reversible escaping
+ is termed "mboxrd" format and described in detail here:
+
+ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
+
+ raw (default if --part is given)
+
+ Write the raw bytes of the given MIME part of a message
+ to standard out. For this format, it is an error to spec-
+ ify a query that matches more than one message.
+
+ If the specified part is a leaf part, this outputs the
+ body of the part after performing content transfer decod-
+ ing (but no charset conversion). This is suitable for
+ saving attachments, for example.
+
+ For a multipart or message part, the output includes the
+ part headers as well as the body (including all child
+ parts). No decoding is performed because multipart and
+ message parts cannot have non-trivial content transfer
+ encoding. Consumers of this may need to implement MIME
+ decoding and similar functions.
--format-version=N
- Use the specified structured output format version. This is
- intended for programs that invoke notmuch(1) internally. If
- omitted, the latest supported version will be used.
+ Use the specified structured output format version. This is
+ intended for programs that invoke notmuch(1) internally. If
+ omitted, the latest supported version will be used.
--part=N
- Output the single decoded MIME part N of a single message. The
- search terms must match only a single message. Message parts
- are numbered in a depth-first walk of the message MIME struc-
- ture, and are identified in the 'json', 'sexp' or 'text' output
- formats.
+ Output the single decoded MIME part N of a single message.
+ The search terms must match only a single message. Message
+ parts are numbered in a depth-first walk of the message MIME
+ structure, and are identified in the 'json', 'sexp' or
+ 'text' output formats.
+
+ Note that even a message with no MIME structure or a single
+ body part still has two MIME parts: part 0 is the whole mes-
+ sage (headers and body) and part 1 is just the body.
--verify
- Compute and report the validity of any MIME cryptographic sig-
- natures found in the selected content (ie. "multipart/signed"
- parts). Status of the signature will be reported (currently on-
- ly supported with --format=json and --format=sexp), and the
- multipart/signed part will be replaced by the signed data.
+ Compute and report the validity of any MIME cryptographic
+ signatures found in the selected content (ie. "multi-
+ part/signed" parts). Status of the signature will be
+ reported (currently only supported with --format=json and
+ --format=sexp), and the multipart/signed part will be
+ replaced by the signed data.
--decrypt
- Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content
- (ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption
- will be reported (currently only supported with --format=json
- and --format=sexp) and on successful decryption the multi-
- part/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted content.
+ Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected con-
+ tent (ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the
+ decryption will be reported (currently only supported with
+ --format=json and --format=sexp) and on successful decryp-
+ tion the multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the
+ decrypted content.
- Decryption expects a functioning gpg-agent(1) to provide any
- needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
+ Decryption expects a functioning gpg-agent(1) to provide any
+ needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
- Implies --verify.
+ Implies --verify.
--exclude=(true|false)
- Specify whether to omit threads only matching search.tag_ex-
- clude from the search results (the default) or not. In either
- case the excluded message will be marked with the exclude flag
- (except when output=mbox when there is nowhere to put the
- flag).
+ Specify whether to omit threads only matching
+ search.tag_exclude from the search results (the default) or
+ not. In either case the excluded message will be marked with
+ the exclude flag (except when output=mbox when there is
+ nowhere to put the flag).
- If --entire-thread is specified then complete threads are re-
- turned regardless (with the excluded flag being set when appro-
- priate) but threads that only match in an excluded message are
- not returned when --exclude=true.
+ If --entire-thread is specified then complete threads are
+ returned regardless (with the excluded flag being set when
+ appropriate) but threads that only match in an excluded mes-
+ sage are not returned when --exclude=true.
- The default is --exclude=true.
+ The default is --exclude=true.
--body=(true|false)
- If true (the default) notmuch show includes the bodies of the
- messages in the output; if false, bodies are omitted.
- --body=false is only implemented for the json and sexp formats
- and it is incompatible with --part >> 0.
+ If true (the default) notmuch show includes the bodies of
+ the messages in the output; if false, bodies are omitted.
+ --body=false is only implemented for the json and sexp for-
+ mats and it is incompatible with --part > 0.
- This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as body-
- less output is much faster and substantially smaller.
+ This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as
+ body-less output is much faster and substantially smaller.
--include-html
- Include "text/html" parts as part of the output (currently only
- supported with --format=json and --format=sexp). By default,
- unless --part=N is used to select a specific part or --include-
- html is used to include all "text/html" parts, no part with
- content type "text/html" is included in the output.
+ Include "text/html" parts as part of the output (currently
+ only supported with --format=json and --format=sexp). By
+ default, unless --part=N is used to select a specific part
+ or --include-html is used to include all "text/html" parts,
+ no part with content type "text/html" is included in the
+ output.
A common use of notmuch show is to display a single thread of email
messages. For this, use a search term of "thread:<thread-id>" as can be
@@ -176,9 +182,13 @@
This command supports the following special exit status codes
- 20 The requested format version is too old.
+ 20
+
+ The requested format version is too old.
+
+ 21
- 21 The requested format version is too new.
+ The requested format version is too new.
SEE ALSO
@@ -189,4 +199,14 @@
much-tag(1)
-Notmuch 0.17
+AUTHOR
+
+ Carl Worth and many others
+
+
+COPYRIGHT
+
+ 2014, Carl Worth and many others
+
+
+0.18