Notmuch is a fast, tag-based indexer for your email. It provides fast and easy access to your email as well as a mail-reading interface for Emacs. This layer integrates Notmuch with the rest of Spacemacs
Setting up Notmuch is a little out-of-scope for this document. The process is pretty straightforward, more information can be found on the Notmuch website.
Personally, I use mbsync (from the isync project) to maintain a local copy of my mail in Maildir format. After mbsync finishes downloading my mail, I run notmuch to add it to the index. The Arch Linux wiki has a pretty good article on getting this setup.
To install the layer, checkout this project into your "private" layers folder in
~/.emacs.d/private. Next, open up your ~/.spacemacs file and add notmuch
to your dotspacemacs-configuration-layers.
If you installed a tool to lookup addresses from notmuch (like this one), you can tell the layer where to find the binary.
(setq notmuch/address-lookup-bin "/usr/bin/notmuch-addrlookup"")
By default, the layer will set the notmuch list of messages to use colors that match the dark Spacemacs theme (normally they are blue). If you use another theme, you may customize these colors.
(setq notmuch/notmuch-tag-face-color "#3f7f5f")
(setq notmuch/notmuch-search-unread-face-color "#4f97d7")
By default, message citation will default to top-posting. You can customize this as well.
(setq notmuch/message-cite-reply-position 'above)
Lastly, you need to setup your identities with Gnus Alias. You can add as many as you like to this list, they will be used when writing messages. The first identity in the list will be used as your default identity.
(setq notmuch/gnus-alias-identities
'(
("home" nil
"Somebody Someone <somebody@someone.com>" ;; Sender address
nil ;; Organization header
nil ;; Extra headers
nil ;; Extra body text
"~/.signature")))
Along with your identity, you can setup some rules to help identify which identities should be used with which email messages.
(setq gnus-alias-identity-rules)
'(("work" ("any" "john.doe@\\(example\\.com\\|help\\.example.com\\)"
both) "work"))
The rule above will use the work identity when replying to messages addressed
to john.doe@example.com or help.example.com.
To start the notmuch interface...
| Key Binding | Description |
|---|---|
SPC a n |
Notmuch Hello |
When you area viewing a list of messages...
| Key Binding | Description |
|---|---|
d |
Delete message at point |
a |
Archive message at point |
C-c r |
Tag receipt and archive message at point |
When reading messages...
| Key Binding | Description |
|---|---|
C-c i |
Select identity |