On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:15:39 +0300, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> The option 2, i.e. optional --write (or -o|--output) should be available;
> someone may run notmuch without using environment that provides
> redirections (or it is just plain simpler to give the command line option
> instead of doing redirections).

If that were the case then none of the other notmuch commands would work
in the environment either.  If that's a concern, then notmuch should
have a generic --redirect option that works for all commands, as Tom
suggested out earlier.

jamie.