Questions tagged [notmuch]
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How to warn before sending email if Subject: is empty
If I hit C-c C-c in message-mode (I use notmuch) in order to send an email I've composed, I want to be warned if the Subject: header is empty. E.g. "Really send without Subject? (yes or no)"
When composing new email I fill in the Subject after I…

Gregor
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Is there some way to view the HTML part of an email in an external browser or as a PDF in notmuch?
I have just started using notmuch for email. I was wondering if there is some way I can view the HTML part of an email in an external browser or rendered to a pdf and viewed inside Emacs (like you can do with mu4e)?

ajallooe
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Notmuch - configure preferences for address completion
When hitting TAB in notmuch to complete email addresses, I often get a long(ish) list of possible completions, forcing me to cycle through it looking for the correct one.
Is there a way to order the possible completions, so that I get the most…

Ketil Malde
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How to control quoting of original message when replying?
I'm trying to set up notmuch for sending and receiving my Gmail email, and I think notmuch uses message-mode for its reply function. I tried setting message-citation-line-function to nil, but replying still quotes the entire message with a > prefix…

incandescentman
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Is there an Emacs-specific solution to printing Emails?
I'm using notmuch for reading and writing emails. This works fine, but sometimes I still do need to print emails. Here the available tools don't shine. Out of the box, using #, printing results in an ugly monospaced text. It's OK, but aren't there…

Public Image Ltd.
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org-notmuch error: user-error: No method for storing a link from this buffer
i have added the
(require 'org-notmuch)
to my config and can verify it loads by seeing the notmuch link type in my org mode links.
yet when i try to issue org-store-link in a notmuch buffer i always get the error
user-error: No method for…

zeltak
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notmuch mail unpacks zip
When reading an email notmuch-(show)-mode unpacks zip files by default in my Emacs.
Is there a way to deactivate this behavior?
It's less of an issue for small zip-Files but I frequently send files that contain large binaries and this slows down the…

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How can I get emacs notmuch to format replies the same way gmail does
I have seen this question!
How to control quoting of original message when replying?
None of that actually works. When I am in notmuch and I hit r on a message there is no amount of message-cite-* variables I can have customized that will do…

user5293
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Fixed width font for sending mails - notmuch + gmailieer + emacs - How?
I have recently set-up my personal mail(gmail) for use through emacs, notmuch and gmailieer. For sending mails, I am relying on the inbuilt smtp mail package and the Message mode.
Earlier, when using the web interface I could set a font while…

joe_maya
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How do you integrate bbdb with notmuch?
I wonder if anyone has gotten BBDB to work with notmuch. I'm looking for the behaviour I had with gnus, where I would type a name from BBDB, press tab and be presented with options to choose from.
The Notmuch 'emacstips' page is frustratingly…

Belasco
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how to add a hook to a custom interactive command
I have a pipeline that opens an emacs client in notmuch-mode when new mail comes in, currently using (notmuch-show "thread:...").
I'd rather use tree view with the most recent message displayed. In two steps this is easy.
run notmuch-thread-view…

Will
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notmuch doesn't show INBOX ("Spawning child process: Invalid argument")
I'm trying to get notmuch working on Windows 10 using WSL/Ubuntu. The idea is to treat the WSL as a remote machine (roughly following https://notmuchmail.org/remoteusage/) and to have a shell script that executes notmuch within the WSL. The script…

Timm
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notmuch-mode very slow in emacs-mac-port (railwaycat)
I run Emacs on Mac OSX, I'm trying to switch from Emacs for Mac OSX to Emacs Mac Port.
I use notmuch for email. It works perfectly on Emacs for Mac OSX.
But on Emacs Mac Port, it's prohibitively slow. Also, the message list is messed up, double…

incandescentman
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Open all emails in notmuch tree search buffer
I'm trying to write a function that will open all emails listed in a buffer created with a tree search in notmuch. It's meant to go over every line, get message id of an email and then open it with the notmuch-show function. The idea is that then…

Daniel Krajnik
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Full-text search in notmuch (like multi-occur)?
Has anyone tried to search through emails' contents in notmuch in a "multi-occur like fashion", that is in a buffer that lists occurrences of a searched keyword and let's you visit their buffers (email messages)?
From my simple tests it looked like…

Daniel Krajnik
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