<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <u>command</u> [<u>args</u> ...]
+ <b>notmuch</b> [option ...] <b>command</b> [arg ...]
</pre>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<pre>
- Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching, read-
+ Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching, read‐
ing, and tagging large collections of email messages.
This page describes how to get started using notmuch from the command
line, and gives a brief overview of the commands available. For more
- information on e.g. <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> consult the <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1) man page,
+ information on e.g. <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> consult the <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1) man page,
also accessible via <b>notmuch</b> <b>help</b> <b>show</b>
The quickest way to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
<h2>NOTE</h2>
<pre>
While the command-line program <b>notmuch</b> provides powerful functionality,
- it does not provide the most convenient interface for that functional-
+ it does not provide the most convenient interface for that functional‐
ity. More sophisticated interfaces are expected to be built on top of
- either the command-line interface, or more likely, on top of the not-
- much library interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for more about
+ either the command-line interface, or more likely, on top of the not‐
+ much library interface. See <u>https://notmuchmail.org</u> for more about
alternate interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface to notmuch
(available under <b>emacs/</b> in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably
the most widely used at this time.
</pre>
+<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
+<pre>
+ Supported global options for <b>notmuch</b> include
+
+ <b>--help</b> <b>[command-name]</b>
+ Print a synopsis of available commands and exit. With an
+ optional command name, show the man page for that subcommand.
+
+ <b>--version</b>
+ Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
+
+ <b>--config=FILE</b>
+ Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any con‐
+ figuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG}.
+
+ <b>--uuid=HEX</b>
+ Enforce that the database UUID (a unique identifier which per‐
+ sists until e.g. the database is compacted) is HEX; exit with an
+ error if it is not. This is useful to detect rollover in modifi‐
+ cation counts on messages. You can find this UUID using e.g.
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> <b>--lastmod</b>
+
+ All global options except <b>--config</b> can also be specified after the com‐
+ mand. For example, <b>notmuch</b> <b>subcommand</b> <b>--uuid=HEX</b> is equivalent to <b>not-</b>
+ <b>much</b> <b>--uuid=HEX</b> <b>subcommand</b>.
+</pre>
+
<h2>COMMANDS</h2>
<h3> SETUP</h3>
(or to reconfigure it later).
The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
- address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory con-
- taining your email archives. Your answers will be written to a configu-
+ address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory con‐
+ taining your email archives. Your answers will be written to a configu‐
ration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config .
- This configuration file will be created with descriptive comments, mak-
+ This configuration file will be created with descriptive comments, mak‐
ing it easy to edit by hand later to change the configuration. Or you
can run <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> again to change the configuration.
- The mail directory you specify can contain any number of sub-directo-
- ries and should primarily contain only files with individual email mes-
+ The mail directory you specify can contain any number of sub-directo‐
+ ries and should primarily contain only files with individual email mes‐
sages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect). If there are other,
non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email programs)
then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore them.
Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
- messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is cur-
+ messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is cur‐
rently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir format
with a utility such as mb2md before running <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> <b>.</b>
<h3> OTHER COMMANDS</h3>
<pre>
- Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common syn-
- tax. See notmuch-search-terms(7) for more details on the supported syn-
+ Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common syn‐
+ tax. See <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7) for more details on the supported syn‐
tax.
- The <b>search</b>, <b>show</b> and <b>count</b> commands are used to query the email data-
- base.
+ The <b>search</b>, <b>show</b>, <b>address</b> and <b>count</b> commands are used to query the
+ email database.
The <b>reply</b> command is useful for preparing a template for an email
reply.
The <b>dump</b> and <b>restore</b> commands can be used to create a textual dump of
email tags for backup purposes, and to restore from that dump.
- The <b>config</b> command can be used to get or set settings int the notmuch
+ The <b>config</b> command can be used to get or set settings in the notmuch
configuration file.
</pre>
+<h3> CUSTOM COMMANDS</h3>
+<pre>
+ If the given command is not known to notmuch, notmuch tries to execute
+ the external <b>notmuch-<subcommand></b> in ${PATH} instead. This allows users
+ to have their own notmuch related tools to be run via the notmuch com‐
+ mand. By design, this does not allow notmuch's own commands to be over‐
+ ridden using external commands.
+</pre>
+
+<h3> OPTION SYNTAX</h3>
+<pre>
+ All options accepting an argument can be used with '=' or ':' as a sep‐
+ arator. For the cases where it's not ambiguous (in particular excluding
+ boolean options), a space can also be used. The following are all
+ equivalent:
+
+ notmuch --config=alt-config config get user.name
+ notmuch --config:alt-config config get user.name
+ notmuch --config alt-config config get user.name
+</pre>
+
<h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2>
<pre>
The following environment variables can be used to control the behavior
of notmuch.
<b>NOTMUCH</b>_<b>CONFIG</b>
- Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Not-
- much will use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this variable is not
+ Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Not‐
+ much will use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this variable is not
set.
+
+ <b>NOTMUCH</b>_<b>TALLOC</b>_<b>REPORT</b>
+ Location to write a talloc memory usage report. See <b>tal-</b>
+ <b>loc</b>_<b>enable</b>_<b>leak</b>_<b>report</b>_<b>full</b> in <b>talloc</b>(3) for more information.
+
+ <b>NOTMUCH</b>_<b>DEBUG</b>_<b>QUERY</b>
+ If set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to
+ stderr) Xapian queries it constructs.
</pre>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5),
- <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
+ <a href='../notmuch-address-1/'>notmuch-address</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-compact-1/'>notmuch-compact</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>much-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1),
+ <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-properties-7/'>notmuch-properties</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-reindex-1/'>notmuch-reindex</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>much-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>much-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
- The notmuch website: <b>http://notmuchmail.org</b>
+ The notmuch website: <b>https://notmuchmail.org</b>
</pre>
<h2>CONTACT</h2>
<pre>
- Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
- list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> . Subscription is not required before
+ Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
+ list <<u>notmuch@notmuchmail.org</u>> . Subscription is not required before
posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
- Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
+ Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
</pre>
-<h2>Notmuch 0.13.2</h2>
+<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
+<pre>
+ Carl Worth and many others
+</pre>
+
+<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
+<pre>
+ 2009-2019, Carl Worth and many others
+</pre>
+
+<h2>0.29</h2>
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