<search-terms>.
The messages will be grouped and sorted based on the threading (all
- replies to a particular message will appear immediately after that mes-
+ 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 <b>show</b> include
- <b>--entire-thread=(true|false)</b>
+ <b>--entire-thread=(true|false)</b>
+ If true, <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> outputs all messages in the thread of any
+ message matching the search terms; if false, it outputs only the
+ matching messages. For <b>--format=json</b> and <b>--format=sexp</b> this de‐
+ faults to true. For other formats, this defaults to false.
- If true, <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> 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)
+ <b>--format=(text|json|sexp|mbox|raw)</b>
<b>text</b> <b>(default</b> <b>for</b> <b>messages)</b>
-
- The default plain-text format has all text-content MIME
- parts decoded. Various components in the output, (<b>mes-</b>
- <b>sage</b>, <b>header</b>, <b>body</b>, <b>attachment</b>, and MIME <b>part</b>), 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
+ The default plain-text format has all text-content MIME
+ parts decoded. Various components in the output, (<b>mes-</b>
+ <b>sage</b>, <b>header</b>, <b>body</b>, <b>attachment</b>, and MIME <b>part</b>), 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.
- <b>json</b>
-
- 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-
+ <b>json</b> 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
+ default JSON output includes all messages in a matching
+ thread; that is, by default, <b>--format=json</b> sets <b>--en-</b>
+ <b>tire-thread</b>. The caller can disable this behaviour by
+ setting <b>--entire-thread=false</b>. The JSON output is always
+ encoded as UTF-8 and any message content included in the
output will be charset-converted to UTF-8.
- <b>sexp</b>
-
- 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
+ <b>sexp</b> 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 <b>t</b> and both
+ false and null are formatted as <b>nil</b>. As for JSON, the
s-expression output is always encoded as UTF-8.
- <b>mbox</b>
-
- 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
+ <b>mbox</b> 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
+ additional '>' character added. This reversible escaping
is termed "mboxrd" format and described in detail here:
-
- <u>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html</u>
+ <u>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html</u>
<b>raw</b> <b>(default</b> <b>if</b> <b>--part</b> <b>is</b> <b>given)</b>
-
- Write the raw bytes of the given MIME part of a message
- to standard out. For this format, it is an error to spec-
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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.
- <b>--format-version=N</b>
-
- Use the specified structured output format version. This is
- intended for programs that invoke <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1) internally. If
- omitted, the latest supported version will be used.
-
- <b>--part=N</b>
-
- 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.
-
- <b>--verify</b>
-
- 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.
-
- <b>--decrypt</b>
-
- 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 <b>gpg-agent</b>(1) to provide any
- needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
-
- Implies --verify.
-
- <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
-
- 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
- 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.
-
- <b>--body=(true|false)</b>
-
- If true (the default) <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> 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.
-
- <b>--include-html</b>
-
- 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.
+ <b>--format-version=N</b>
+ Use the specified structured output format version. This is in‐
+ tended for programs that invoke <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1) internally. If omit‐
+ ted, the latest supported version will be used.
+
+ <b>--part=N</b>
+ 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 for‐
+ mats.
+
+ Note that even a message with no MIME structure or a single body
+ part still has two MIME parts: part 0 is the whole message
+ (headers and body) and part 1 is just the body.
+
+ <b>--sort=(newest-first|oldest-first)</b>
+ This option can be used to present results in either chronologi‐
+ cal order (<b>oldest-first</b>) or reverse chronological order (<b>new-</b>
+ <b>est-first</b>).
+
+ Only threads as a whole are reordered. Ordering of messages
+ within each thread will not be affected by this flag, since that
+ order is always determined by the thread's replies.
+
+ By default, results will be displayed in reverse chronological
+ order, (that is, the newest results will be displayed first).
+
+ <b>--verify</b>
+ Compute and report the validity of any MIME cryptographic signa‐
+ tures found in the selected content (e.g., "multipart/signed"
+ parts). Status of the signature will be reported (currently only
+ supported with <b>--format=json</b> and <b>--format=sexp</b>), and the multi‐
+ part/signed part will be replaced by the signed data.
+
+ <b>--decrypt=(false|auto|true|stash)</b>
+ If <b>true</b>, decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected
+ content (e.g., "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the de‐
+ cryption will be reported (currently only supported with <b>--for-</b>
+ <b>mat=json</b> and <b>--format=sexp</b>) and on successful decryption the
+ multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted con‐
+ tent.
+
+ <b>stash</b> behaves like <b>true</b>, but upon successful decryption it will
+ also stash the message's session key in the database, and index
+ the cleartext of the message, enabling automatic decryption in
+ the future.
+
+ If <b>auto</b>, and a session key is already known for the message,
+ then it will be decrypted, but notmuch will not try to access
+ the user's keys.
+
+ Use <b>false</b> to avoid even automatic decryption.
+
+ Non-automatic decryption (<b>stash</b> or <b>true</b>, in the absence of a
+ stashed session key) expects a functioning <b>gpg-agent</b>(1) to pro‐
+ vide any needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will
+ fail.
+
+ Note: setting either <b>true</b> or <b>stash</b> here implies <b>--verify</b>.
+
+ Here is a table that summarizes each of these policies:
+
+ ┌──────────────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬───────┐
+ │ │ false │ auto │ true │ stash │
+ ├──────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼───────┤
+ │Show cleart‐ │ │ X │ X │ X │
+ │ext if ses‐ │ │ │ │ │
+ │sion key is │ │ │ │ │
+ │already known │ │ │ │ │
+ ├──────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼───────┤
+ │Use secret │ │ │ X │ X │
+ │keys to show │ │ │ │ │
+ │cleartext │ │ │ │ │
+ ├──────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼───────┤
+ │Stash any │ │ │ │ X │
+ │newly recov‐ │ │ │ │ │
+ │ered session │ │ │ │ │
+ │keys, rein‐ │ │ │ │ │
+ │dexing mes‐ │ │ │ │ │
+ │sage if found │ │ │ │ │
+ └──────────────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴───────┘
+
+ Note: <b>--decrypt=stash</b> requires write access to the database.
+ Otherwise, <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> operates entirely in read-only mode.
+
+ Default: <b>auto</b>
+
+ <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
+ Specify whether to omit threads only matching search.ex‐
+ clude_tags from the search results (the default) or not. In ei‐
+ ther case the excluded message will be marked with the exclude
+ flag (except when output=mbox when there is nowhere to put the
+ flag).
+
+ If <b>--entire-thread</b> 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 <b>--exclude=true.</b>
+
+ The default is <b>--exclude=true.</b>
+
+ <b>--body=(true|false)</b>
+ If true (the default) <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> includes the bodies of the
+ messages in the output; if false, bodies are omitted.
+ <b>--body=false</b> is only implemented for the text, json and sexp
+ formats and it is incompatible with <b>--part</b> <b>></b> <b>0.</b>
+
+ This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as body-less
+ output is much faster and substantially smaller.
+
+ <b>--include-html</b>
+ Include "text/html" parts as part of the output (currently only
+ supported with <b>--format=text</b>, <b>--format=json</b> and <b>--format=sexp</b>).
+ By default, unless <b>--part=N</b> is used to select a specific part or
+ <b>--include-html</b> is used to include all "text/html" parts, no part
+ with content type "text/html" is included in the output.
A common use of <b>notmuch</b> <b>show</b> is to display a single thread of email
messages. For this, use a search term of "thread:<thread-id>" as can be
- seen in the first column of output from the <b>notmuch</b> <b>search</b> command.
+ seen in the first column of output from the <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1) command.
+</pre>
+
+<h2>CONFIGURATION</h2>
+<pre>
+ Structured output (json / sexp) is influenced by the configuration op‐
+ tion show.extra_headers. See <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1) for details.
</pre>
<h2>EXIT STATUS</h2>
<pre>
This command supports the following special exit status codes
- <b>20</b>
-
- The requested format version is too old.
-
- <b>21</b>
+ <b>20</b> The requested format version is too old.
- The requested format version is too new.
+ <b>21</b> The requested format version is too new.
</pre>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <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/'>not-</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5),
<a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <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-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not-</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <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/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5),
<a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <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-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
<a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
</pre>
<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
<pre>
- 2014, Carl Worth and many others
+ 2009-2022, Carl Worth and many others
</pre>
-<h2>0.18</h2>
+<h2>0.35</h2>
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