From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:24:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add notmuch post.
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Add notmuch post.
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+[notmuch][] is a clean mail indexer.  You know you got an email from
+someone with their current phone number, but can't remember where you
+put it?  Notmuch to the rescue:
+
+    $ notmuch show from:jdoe@example.com home phone
+    message{ id:DF741236-…@example.com … filename:/home/you/mail/…
+
+    header{
+    John Doe <jdoe@example.com> (October 04) (inbox)
+    Subject: new contact info
+    From: John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
+    To: You <you@big.edu>
+    Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:08:57 -0600
+
+    header}
+
+    body{
+
+    part{ ID: 1, Content-type: text/plain
+    I've got a new home phone number:
+
+      123-456-7890.
+
+    Cheers,
+    John
+
+    part}
+
+    body}
+
+    message}
+
+[[Gentoo]] installation is simple:
+
+    $ emerge -av notmuch
+    $ notmuch setup
+    (interactive creation of ~/.notmuch-config)
+    $ notmuch new
+    (initial indexing)
+
+When you want to update the index, just run `notmuch new` again.  You
+can get fancy with [[offlineimap]] hooks:
+
+    [Account Upsilon]
+    postsynchook = notmuch new
+
+but I just have a Bash alias in my [[dotfiles]] along the lines of
+
+    alias offlineimap-in='offlineimap && rm -f ~/mail/Junk/* && notmuch new'
+
+You can also get fancy with [mutt integration][mutt], but I just
+`grep` the search results on the command line to get what I want.
+
+P.S.  I'm cleaning out my backlog of half-completed blog posts today,
+can you tell?
+
+[notmuch]: http://notmuchmail.org/
+[mutt]: http://git.upsilon.cc/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=utils/mutt-notmuch.git;a=summary
+
+[[!tag tags/tools]]