-<h1>NOTMUCH(1)</h1>
-
-<h2>NAME</h2>
-<pre>
- notmuch - thread-based email index, search, and tagging
-</pre>
-
-<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
-<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <u>command</u> [<u>args</u> ...]
-</pre>
-
-<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
-<pre>
- 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,
- 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
- <b>notmuch</b> command with no arguments, which will interactively guide you
- through the process of indexing your mail.
-</pre>
-
-<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-
- 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
- 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>COMMANDS</h2>
-
-<h3> SETUP</h3>
-<pre>
- The <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> command is used to configure Notmuch for first use,
- (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-
- ration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config .
- 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-
- 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-
- 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>
-
- Invoking <b>notmuch</b> with no command argument will run <b>setup</b> if the setup
- command has not previously been completed.
-</pre>
-
-<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-
- tax.
-
- The <b>search</b>, <b>show</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>tag</b> command is the only command available for manipulating database
- contents.
-
- 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
- configuration file.
-</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
- set.
-</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)
-
- The notmuch website: <b>http://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
- posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
-
- Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
- (server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
-</pre>
-
-<h2>Notmuch 0.15.2</h2>
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