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 [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
-# Notmuch -- The mail indexer
+# Notmuch -- Just an email system
 
-## Why Notmuch?
+If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email
+system to use within your text editor or in a terminal...
+
+If you're the kind of person that gets excited about being able to
+write shell scripts for exploring and manipulating your email...
+
+If you're a developer of an existing email program and would love a
+good library interface for fast, global search with support for
+arbitrary tags...
+
+If you want the convenience of fast, reliable search of all your
+email, but don't want to give a 3rd-party access to your email...
 
-Because dealing with your mail can be so much better.
+Then notmuch may be exactly what you've been looking for.
+
+## Why is it named Notmuch?
 
 * "Not much mail" is what Notmuch thinks about your email
   collection. Even if you receive 12000 messages per month or have on
@@ -16,7 +29,7 @@ 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
@@ -34,15 +47,6 @@ Because dealing with your mail can be so much better.
   interface and Xapian does all the heavy lifting, then what's left
   here? Not much.
 
-If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email
-reader to use within your text editor or in a terminal, then Notmuch
-may be exactly what you've been looking for.
-
-If you're a developer of an existing email program and would love a
-good library interface for fast, global search with support for
-arbitrary tags, then Notmuch also may be exactly what you've been
-looking for.
-
 ## News
 
 [[The latest news from notmuch|news]]
@@ -50,9 +54,9 @@ looking for.
 ## Documentation
 
 To get started with notmuch, just run "notmuch" at the command line.
-The configuration wizard will walk you through initial setup,
-including specifying the location of your mail store and how to start
-the initial indexing.  After that, come back and checkout our docs:
+This command will walk you through initial setup, including specifying
+the location of your mail store and how to start the initial indexing.
+After that, come back and checkout our documentation:
 
   * [[Notmuch manual pages|manpages]]
   * [[General how-tos|howto]]
@@ -93,11 +97,12 @@ Notmuch is packaged for at least the following distributions:
 * [Debian](http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=notmuch)
 * [Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/notmuch)
 * [Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-mail/notmuch)
+* [NetBSD](http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/mail/notmuch/README.html)
 * [openSUSE](https://build.opensuse.org/search?search_text=notmuch)
 * [Slackware](http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/office/notmuch/)
 * [Ubuntu](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=notmuch)
 
-Notmuch can be installed on Mac OS X using [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=notmuch).
+Notmuch can be installed on OS X using [Homebrew](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/notmuch.rb), [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=notmuch), or [pkgsrc](http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/mail/notmuch/README.html).
 
 ## Development and Contributing
 
@@ -123,15 +128,11 @@ its
 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 +165,5 @@ 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]].