Justin B Rye pointed out (in Debian bug #566282) that a user with mail
in mbox format can spend a lot of time investigating notmuch before
realizing that mbox is not supported. Head that off with a more
detailed mention in the README blurb.
Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
-large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to
-provide fast, full-text search with a convenient search syntax.
+large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
+the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
+search syntax.
Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
License version 3 (or later).