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authorGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-02-25 11:03:56 -0800
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-02-25 11:03:56 -0800
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README: Mention that notmuch only supports maildir or mh format.
Justin B Rye pointed out (in Debian bug #566282) that a user with mail in mbox format can spend a lot of time investigating notmuch before realizing that mbox is not supported. Head that off with a more detailed mention in the README blurb.
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Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
-large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to
-provide fast, full-text search with a convenient search syntax.
+large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
+the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
+search syntax.
Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
License version 3 (or later).