mail-client/notmuch

Thread-based email index, search and tagging.

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Slot Version Repository Platforms
0 scm ingmar ~amd64 arm? armv7? armv8? x86?
0.38.3 ingmar ~amd64 arm? armv7? armv8? x86?

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Homepage https://notmuchmail.org/
Summary Thread-based email index, search and tagging
Description '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 suport). 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.
Dependencies (
    (
        post:
        bash-completion? (
            app-admin/eclectic
            app-shells/bash-completion
        )
    )
    (
        build+run:
        emacs? (
            app-editors/emacs
        )
    )
    (
        build:
        dev-python/Sphinx
        virtual/pkg-config
        python? (
            dev-python/setuptools
            dev-python/cffi
        )
        build+run:
        dev-db/xapian-core[>=1.4.0]
        dev-lang/perl:=
        dev-libs/glib:2[>=2.22]
        dev-libs/talloc
        net-utils/gmime:3.0[>=3.0.3]
        sys-libs/zlib[>=1.2.5.2]
        python? (
            dev-lang/python:=[>=3.5]
        )
        ruby? (
            dev-lang/ruby:=
        )
        run:
        vim-plugin? (
            app-editors/vim[ruby]
        )
        suggestion:
        app-crypt/gnupg
        test:
        app-crypt/gnupg
        app-editors/emacs[>=25]
        app-misc/dtach
        sys-devel/gdb
        python? (
            dev-python/pytest[>=3.0]
        )
    )
)
Downloads https://notmuchmail.org//releases/notmuch-0.38.3.tar.xz
Licences GPL-3

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bash-completion Install completion files for the Bourne Again Shell
emacs
python Adds support/bindings for the Python language
ruby Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language
vim-plugin Install vim plugin
zsh-completion Install completion files for the Z Shell