X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=howto.mdwn;h=77df009b64ddb0d3f5b41c3f9ea6254d12cb4d64;hp=f4ef721a00f5016809b555014a300dcf65feb8eb;hb=c996da49e1351eccfbe655c8461c80fb217ae5be;hpb=b57b19763b456bcf2f568909325a4ef05cf1aab4 diff --git a/howto.mdwn b/howto.mdwn index f4ef721..77df009 100644 --- a/howto.mdwn +++ b/howto.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] # How to... Some tips about how to do some useful things with notmuch, and the @@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ utilities support these formats: * [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/) +* [muchsync](http://www.muchsync.org/) - replicate and synchronize + your notmuch database (mail and tags) across machines + See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages. @@ -62,21 +66,7 @@ refer to the mailing list. ## **Use notmuch from python** -Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared library. Please -refer to the nice and extensive -[notmuch python API documentation](http://notmuch.readthedocs.org/). - -The bindings are very simple to use. As an example, given you have -the python bindings installed (or simply set your PYTHONPATH -environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python directory), -this snippet will produce a list of mails matching the given -expression: - - >>> import notmuch - >>> db = notmuch.Database() - >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed') - >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS - [...] +See the [[Notmuch Library Language Bindings|bindings]] page. ## **Using notmuch with Mutt** @@ -125,6 +115,22 @@ output. Using the instructions from [Gmane's site](http://gmane.org/export.php), we can download an mbox file, which we can then convert to maildir using mb2md or other utility. +Please note that mail delivered by Postfix will have envelope headers +that may cause notmuch to complain about "single-message mbox files". +Removing the first line from the message or passing it through +reformail will solve the problem. + ## **Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch** See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]]. + + +## **Index all your gpg-encrypted email** + +If you don't mind replacing your encrypted emails with cleartext versions and +re-indexing them, there are some scripts that do that at +[github](https://github.com/mmehnert/maildir-decrypt) . That would make sense +in a scenario where you have encrypted your hard disk anyway and are +comfortable with the security implications (and until notmuch can index +encrypted email itself). +