mutt-notmuch: Notmuch (of a) helper for Mutt
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mutt-notmuch provide integration among the [Mutt] [1] mail user agent and the
[Notmuch] [2] mail indexer.

mutt-notmuch offer two basic integration features. The first one is the ability
of stating a **search query interactively** and then jump to a fresh Maildir
containing its search results only. The second one is the ability to
**reconstruct threads on the fly** starting from the currently highlighted
mail, which comes handy when a thread has been split across different maildirs,
archived, or the like.

mutt-notmuch enables to trigger mail searches via a Mutt macro (F8 being my
choice) and reconstruct threads via another (F9). Check the manpage for the
2-liner configuration snippet for your ~/.muttrc.

A [blog style introduction] [3] to mutt-notmuch is available and includes some
more rationale for its existence.

Arguably, some of the logics of mutt-notmuch could disappear by adding support
for a --output=symlinks flag to notmuch.


[1]: http://www.mutt.org/
[2]: http://notmuchmail.org/
[3]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2011/01/how_to_use_Notmuch_with_Mutt/


Requirements
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To *run* mutt-notmuch you will need Perl with the following libraries:

- Mail::Box <http://search.cpan.org/~markov/Mail-Box/>
  (Debian package: libmail-box-perl)
- Mail::Internet <http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools/>
  (Debian package: libmailtools-perl)
- String::ShellQuote <http://search.cpan.org/~rosch/String-ShellQuote/ShellQuote.pm>
  (Debian package: libstring-shellquote-perl)
- Term::ReadLine <http://search.cpan.org/~hayashi/Term-ReadLine-Gnu/>
  (Debian package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl)

To *build* mutt-notmuch documentation you will need:

- pod2man (coming with Perl) to generate the manpage
- markdown to generate README.html out of this file


License
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mutt-notmuch is copyright (C) 2011-2012 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>.

mutt-notmuch is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL), version 3 or above. A copy of the license is available online at
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.