notmuch for emacs-berlin

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** notmuch
notmuch is a search engine and emacs frontend for locally stored
email. The name implies that it is efficient:

"You have 200k emails?  That's not much!"

*** Features

**** Fast local search

**** Based on tagging

**** No mail gets ever deleted

**** Append-only makes synchronization setup simpler

Maybe talk about my setup with the notmuch-rsync script.

**** Great in combination with org

The following links work from org files on my local computer:

[[notmuch-search:tag:inbox][Notmuch search: tag:inbox]]

[[notmuch:id:CAK2o9WJeD-AUveXHJHb_2YYAd-kaeApuEZU4v5s%2BZCEdV6_6Vw@mail.gmail.com][Email from Arne Brasseur: {emacsberlin} Location for Thu]]

[[notmuch-search:emacsberlin][Notmuch search: emacsberlin]]

To store a link, in search results or message show buffer: "C-c l"

To insert that link into an org buffer: "C-c C-l"

***** Useful for example to create TODO or WAITING items linked to emails

**** Show some common usage

- Message show
- Compose
- PGP
- attachments

**** The warm fuzzy feeling of owning your mail

*** Installation

To use it, first install the standalone software, e.g. from an
operating system package or from source. This will give you the
'notmuch' commandline program. It can be configured and used
independently from emacs.

Make sure you have org and melpa package archives

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
#+END_SRC

M-x list-packages and install the packages notmuch and
org-plus-contrib.

Add to init.el:
#+BEGIN_SRC
(require 'notmuch)
(require 'org-notmuch)
#+END_SRC