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notmuch notmuch just an email system if you ve been looking for a fast global search and tag based email system to use within your text editor or in a terminal if you re the kind of person that gets excited about being able to write shell scripts for exploring and manipulating your email if you re a developer of an existing email program and would love a good library interface for fast global search with support for arbitrary tags if you want the convenience of fast reliable search of all your email but don t want to give a 3rd party access to your email then notmuch may be exactly what you ve been looking for notmuch just an email system why is it named notmuch news getting started email clients and front ends documentation screenshots obtaining notmuch contact email irc troubleshooting reporting bugs and feature requests development and contributing website why is it named notmuch not much mail is what notmuch thinks about your email collection even if you receive 12000 messages per month or have on the order of millions of messages that you ve been saving for decades regardless notmuch will be able to quickly search all of it it s just plain not much mail not much mail is also what you should have in your inbox at any time notmuch gives you what you need tags and fast search so that you can keep your inbox tamed and focus on what really matters in your life which is surely not email notmuch is an answer to sup sup is a very good email program written by william morgan and others and is the direct inspiration for notmuch notmuch began as an effort to rewrite performance critical pieces of sup in c rather than ruby from there it grew into a separate project one significant contribution notmuch makes compared to sup is the separation of the indexer searcher from the user interface notmuch provides a library interface so that its indexing searching tagging features can be integrated into any email program notmuch is not much of an email program it doesn t receive messages no pop or imap support it doesn t send messages no mail composer no network code at all and for what it does do email search that work is provided by an external library xapian so if notmuch provides no user interface and xapian does all the heavy lifting then what s left here not much news notmuch news mostly release notes and changes getting started to get started with notmuch just run notmuch at the command line this command will walk you through initial setup including specifying the location of your mail store and how to start the initial indexing for a little more detailed guide see getting started with notmuch email clients and front ends notmuch ships with a powerful set of command line tools an email client for emacs another client for vim and a mutt integration script there are also many other email clients frontends and tools based on notmuch documentation notmuch official documentation manual pages email clients and frontends general how tos frequently asked questions searching excluding and deleting messages initial tagging tips for using notmuch with emacs vim postfix dovecot and mutt emacs remote usage performance references notmuch library language bindings apart from the wiki help is available via email and on irc see below join the mailing list read the archives ask questions screenshots emacs ui screenshots obtaining notmuch notmuch source releases are available as source tar balls notmuch is packaged for at least the following operating systems and distributions arch linux debian fedora freebsd gentoo netbsd opensuse macos homebrew macports or pkgsrc slackware ubuntu contact email irc comments please feel free to email the notmuch mailing list notmuch notmuchmail org subscription is not required but you can also subscribe to the notmuch mailing list you can also browse the online list archives or download an archive of the entire mailing list the archive unpacks to maildir format which is convenient for reading the archives within notmuch itself if you prefer real time chat there is often someone on the notmuch irc libera chat irc channel don t ask if you can ask a question just ask and please wait for an answer we might not be in your timezone troubleshooting reporting bugs and feature requests please send bug reports and feature requests to the notmuch mailing list notmuch notmuchmail org for hints about troubleshooting and bug reporting see bugs please see the nmbug status page for lists of known bugs and feature requests development and contributing all of the code for notmuch is available as free software released under the gnu gpl version 3 the latest versions can be checked out via git with this command git clone https git notmuchmail org git notmuch you can browse the notmuch code history online the notmuch openhub project page has a nice summary of the codebase and activity continuous integration build and test suite status contributions such as patches to notmuch are most welcome please refer to the guide to contributing website this website is a wiki maintained using ikiwiki here are instructions on how to edit the wiki the wiki contents are mostly dual licensed under cc by sa 3 0 and gplv3 last edited tue jun 23 15 06 39 2026