From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:26:29 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Create some content actually related to notmuch.
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=commitdiff_plain;h=454c057e09b995aab7227366cb58f4bfd708665c

Create some content actually related to notmuch.

This is a markdown version of the original, lame, static web page
from the notmuch project (replacing the default ikiwiki placeholder
page).
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diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn
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+++ b/index.mdwn
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-Welcome to your new wiki.
+# Why Notmuch?
 
-All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
+* "Not much mail" is what Notmuch thinks about your email
+  collection. Even if you receive 12000 messages per month or have on
+  the order of millions of messages that you've been saving for
+  decades. Regardless, Notmuch will be able to quickly search all of
+  it. It's just plain not much mail.
 
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+* "Not much mail" is also what you should have in your inbox at any
+  time. Notmuch gives you what you need, (tags and fast search), so
+  that you can keep your inbox tamed and focus on what really matters
+  in your life, (which is surely not email).
 
-This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]].
+* Notmuch is an answer to <a href="http://sup.rubyforge.org/">Sup</a>.
+  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
+  than ruby. From there, it grew into a separate project. One
+  significant contribution Notmuch makes compared to Sup is the
+  separation of the indexer/searcher from the user interface. (Notmuch
+  provides a library interface so that its indexing/searching/tagging
+  features can be integrated into any email program.)
+
+* Notmuch is not much of an email program. It doesn't receive messages
+  (no POP or IMAP suport). It doesn't send messages (no mail composer,
+  no network code at all). And for what it does do (email search) that
+  work is provided by an external library, <a
+  href="http://xapian.org/">Xapian</a>. So if Notmuch provides no user
+  interface and Xapian does all the heavy lifting, then what's left
+  here? Not much.  </ul>
+
+Notmuch is still in the early stages of development, but there are
+already three user interfaces available for it (one for emacs, one for
+vim, and another using curses for running within a terminal). 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.
+
+Otherwise, 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.
+
+Either way, please feel free to jump in. All of the code for Notmuch
+is available as <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html">free
+software</a> released under the GNU GPL version 3. The latest versions
+can be checked out via git with this command:
+
+
+	git clone git://notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch
+
+Or you can browse the <a href="http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch">
+Notmuch code history</a> online.
+
+Comments? Please feel free to email the notmuch mailing list:
+notmuch&#64;notmuchmail.org (subscription is not required, but you can
+<a href="http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch">subscribe to
+the notmuch list</a> if you would like to). You can also browse the
+<a href="http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/">mailing-list archives
+</a>.