NOTMUCH-SHOW(1)
NAME
notmuch-show - Show messages matching the given search terms.
SYNOPSIS
notmuch show [options...] <search-term>...
DESCRIPTION
Shows all messages matching the search terms.
See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for
.
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).
Supported options for show include
--entire-thread
By default only those messages that match the search terms will
be displayed. With this option, all messages in the same thread
as any matched message will be displayed.
--format=(text|json|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. JSON out-
put always includes all messages in a matching thread; in
effect --format=json implies --entire-thread
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.
--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' or 'text' output for-
mats.
--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 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 the multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the de-
crypted content. 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).
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.
The default is --exclude=true.
A common use of notmuch show is to display a single thread of email
messages. For this, use a search term of "thread:" as can be
seen in the first column of output from the notmuch search command.
SEE ALSO
notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not-
much-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-tag(1)
Notmuch 0.13.2