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+.\" notmuch - Not much of an email program, (just index, search and tagging)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 2009 Carl Worth
+.\"
+.\" Notmuch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" Notmuch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
+.\"
+.\" Author: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+.TH NOTMUCH 1 2011-12-04 "Notmuch 0.10.2"
+.SH NAME
+notmuch \- thread-based email index, search, and tagging
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B notmuch
+.IR command " [" args " ...]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching,
+reading, and tagging large collections of email messages.
+
+The quickest way to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
+.B notmuch
+command with no arguments, which will interactively guide you through
+the process of indexing your mail.
+.SH NOTE
+While the command-line program
+.B notmuch
+provides powerful functionality, it does not provide the most
+convenient interface for that functionality. More sophisticated
+interfaces are expected to be built on top of either the command-line
+interface, or more likely, on top of the notmuch library
+interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for more about alternate
+interfaces to notmuch.
+.SH COMMANDS
+The
+.BR setup
+command is used to configure Notmuch for first use, (or to reconfigure
+it later).
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B setup
+
+Interactively sets up notmuch for first use.
+
+The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
+address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory
+containing your email archives. Your answers will be written to a
+configuration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or
+${HOME}/.notmuch-config . This configuration file will be created with
+descriptive comments, making it easy to edit by hand later to change the
+configuration. Or you can run
+.B "notmuch setup"
+again to change the configuration.
+
+The mail directory you specify can contain any number of
+sub-directories and should primarily contain only files with individual
+email messages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect). If there are
+other, non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email
+programs) then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore
+them.
+
+Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
+messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is
+currently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir
+format with a utility such as mb2md before running
+.B "notmuch setup" .
+
+Invoking
+.B notmuch
+with no command argument will run
+.B setup
+if the setup command has not previously been completed.
+.RE
+
+
+
+Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common
+syntax. See the
+.B "SEARCH SYNTAX"
+section below for more details on the supported syntax.
+
+The
+.BR search ", " show " and " count
+commands are used to query the email database.
+
+
+The
+.B reply
+command is useful for preparing a template for an email reply.
+.RS 4
+
+The
+.B tag
+command is the only command available for manipulating database
+contents.
+
+
+The
+.BR dump " and " restore
+commands can be used to create a textual dump of email tags for backup
+purposes, and to restore from that dump.
+
+The
+.B config
+command can be used to get or set settings int the notmuch
+configuration file.
+
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The following environment variables can be used to control the
+behavior of notmuch.
+.TP
+.B NOTMUCH_CONFIG
+Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
+use ${HOME}/.notmuch\-config if this variable is not set.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available as
+.B notmuch.el
+in the Notmuch distribution).
+
+The notmuch website:
+.B http://notmuchmail.org
+.SH CONTACT
+Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
+list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> . Subscription is not required before
+posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
+
+Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
+(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).