<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <u>command</u> [<u>args</u> ...]
+ <b>notmuch</b> [<u>option</u> ...] <u>command</u> [<u>arg</u> ...]
</pre>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
the most widely used at this time.
</pre>
+<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
+<pre>
+ Supported global options for <b>notmuch</b> include
+
+ <b>--help</b>
+
+ Print a synopsis of available commands and exit.
+
+ <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}.
+</pre>
+
<h2>COMMANDS</h2>
<h3> SETUP</h3>
<pre>
- The <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> command is used to configure Notmuch for first use,
+ 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-
+ 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 .
+ 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
+ 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-
+ 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)
+ 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-
+ 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
+ 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-
+ 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>search</b>, <b>show</b> and <b>count</b> commands are used to query the email data-
+ base.
- The <b>reply</b> command is useful for preparing a template for an email
+ 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
+ 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 int the notmuch
configuration file.
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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-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-</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>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-show-1/'>notmuch-</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
The notmuch website: <b>http://notmuchmail.org</b>
</pre>
(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
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-<h2>Notmuch 0.15.2</h2>
+<h2>Notmuch 0.16</h2>
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