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NAME
notmuch-show - show messages matching the given search terms
SYNOPSIS
notmuch show [options...] <search-term>...
DESCRIPTION
Shows all messages matching the search terms.
See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
The messages will be grouped and sorted based on the threading (all replies to a
particular message will appear immediately after that message in date order). The output
is not indented by default, but depth tags are printed so that proper indentation can be
performed by a post-processor (such as the emacs interface to notmuch).
Supported options for show include
--entire-thread=(true|false)
If true, notmuch show outputs all messages in the thread of any message matching
the search terms; if false, it outputs only the matching messages. For
--format=json and --format=sexp this defaults to true. For other formats, this
defaults to false.
--format=(text|json|sexp|mbox|raw)
text (default for messages)
The default plain-text format has all text-content MIME parts decoded. Various
components in the output, (message, header, body, attachment, and MIME part),
will be delimited by easily-parsed markers. Each marker consists of a Control-
L character (ASCII decimal 12), the name of the marker, and then either an
opening or closing brace, ('{' or '}'), to either open or close the component.
For a multipart MIME message, these parts will be nested.
json
The output is formatted with Javascript Object Notation (JSON). This format is
more robust than the text format for automated processing. The nested
structure of multipart MIME messages is reflected in nested JSON output. By
default JSON output includes all messages in a matching thread; that is, by
default,
--format=json sets --entire-thread The caller can disable this behaviour by
setting --entire-thread=false
sexp
The output is formatted as an S-Expression (sexp). This format is more robust
than the text format for automated processing. The nested structure of
multipart MIME messages is reflected in nested S-Expression output. By
default, S-Expression output includes all messages in a matching thread; that
is, by default,
--format=sexp sets --entire-thread The caller can disable this behaviour by
setting --entire-thread=false
mbox
All matching messages are output in the traditional, Unix mbox format with
each message being prefixed by a line beginning with "From " and a blank line
separating each message. Lines in the message content beginning with "From "
(preceded by zero or more '>' characters) have an additional '>' character
added. This reversible escaping is termed "mboxrd" format and described in
detail here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
raw (default for a single part, see --part)
For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw content of the
email message is output. Consumers of this format should expect to implement
MIME decoding and similar functions.
For a single part (--part) the raw part content is output after performing any
necessary MIME decoding. Note that messages with a simple body still have two
parts: part 0 is the whole message and part 1 is the body.
For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including all child parts) is
output.
The raw format must only be used with search terms matching single message.
--format-version=N
Use the specified structured output format version. This is intended for programs
that invoke notmuch(1) internally. If omitted, the latest supported version will
be used.
--part=N
Output the single decoded MIME part N of a single message. The search terms must
match only a single message. Message parts are numbered in a depth-first walk of
the message MIME structure, and are identified in the 'json', 'sexp' or 'text'
output formats.
--verify
Compute and report the validity of any MIME cryptographic signatures found in the
selected content (ie. "multipart/signed" parts). Status of the signature will be
reported (currently only supported with --format=json and --format=sexp), and the
multipart/signed part will be replaced by the signed data.
--decrypt
Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content (ie.
"multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption will be reported (currently
only supported with --format=json and --format=sexp) and on successful decryption
the multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted content.
Decryption expects a functioning gpg-agent(1) to provide any needed credentials.
Without one, the decryption will fail.
Implies --verify.
--exclude=(true|false)
Specify whether to omit threads only matching search.tag_exclude from the search
results (the default) or not. In either case the excluded message will be marked
with the exclude flag (except when output=mbox when there is nowhere to put the
flag).
If --entire-thread is specified then complete threads are returned regardless
(with the excluded flag being set when appropriate) but threads that only match in
an excluded message are not returned when --exclude=true.
The default is --exclude=true.
--body=(true|false)
If true (the default) notmuch show includes the bodies of the messages in the
output; if false, bodies are omitted. --body=false is only implemented for the
json and sexp formats and it is incompatible with --part > 0.
This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as body-less output is much
faster and substantially smaller.
--include-html
Include "text/html" parts as part of the output (currently only supported with
--format=json and --format=sexp). By default, unless --part=N is used to select a
specific part or --include-html is used to include all "text/html" parts, no part
with content type "text/html" is included in the output.
A common use of notmuch show is to display a single thread of email messages. For this,
use a search term of "thread:<thread-id>" as can be seen in the first column of output
from the notmuch search command.
EXIT STATUS
This command supports the following special exit status codes
20 The requested format version is too old.
21 The requested format version is too new.
SEE ALSO
notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5),
notmuch-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-
search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-tag(1)