notmuch - The mail indexer

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Alad
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notmuch - The mail indexer

Unread post by Alad » Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:28 am

"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.

If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email reader to use within your text editor or in a terminal, then Notmuch may be exactly what you've been looking for."

http://notmuchmail.org/
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Re: notmuch - The mail indexer

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:25 am

Interesting find. Thank you, I remember somebody asked for labels (tags) in gmail, so this might be useful.
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