# Installer notmuch-mutt avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de notmuch-mutt pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:notmuch-mutt
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install notmuch-mutt
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install notmuch-mutt
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: notmuch-mutt from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install notmuch-mutt
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: notmuch-mutt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#notmuch-mutt
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: notmuch-mutt from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S notmuch-mutt
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: notmuch-mutt from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:notmuch-mutt
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.40
- **Résumé source:** Notmuch integration for Mutt
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://notmuchmail.org/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- notmuch-mutt (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.40
## Historique du projet et usages

notmuch-mutt is the Mutt integration script shipped with Notmuch. It exists for users who want Notmuch's fast full-text search, thread reconstruction, and tagging while continuing to read mail in Mutt.

The package is not an independent upstream project; its history follows Notmuch. Homebrew splits it as a separate formula, and several Linux distributions package it separately, because Mutt users may want the bridge without installing the Emacs UI pieces.

### Historique du projet

The Notmuch wiki frames notmuch-mutt as an old-fashioned mixed setup: Notmuch performs indexing/search, and Mutt remains the mail user agent. The script creates a virtual maildir folder containing search results whenever a search is made.

The Notmuch notmuch-mutt wiki page was created on 2013-01-08 and points to Stefano Zacchiroli's January 2011 how-to for using Notmuch with Mutt, which is a useful marker for the integration's early community usage.

### Historique d'adoption

Adoption is niche but durable. Homebrew's formula API reported 276 install-on-request events in its 365-day analytics window, while the main notmuch formula reported 2,580 install-on-request events. That gap is expected because notmuch-mutt serves a subset of Notmuch users who stay with Mutt.

The integration also sits beside a wider Notmuch frontend ecosystem. Notmuch's frontend page lists notmuch-mutt as a shipped frontend, and also lists NeoMutt, notmuchfs, aerc, alot, astroid, and other tools that grew around Notmuch's library and database model.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users configure Mutt macros or scripts so a query runs through notmuch-mutt, which then exposes matching messages as a virtual maildir. The tradeoff is classic and explicit in the docs: global search across folders works, but changes made in the result listing do not automatically carry back to the original folders.

A second style uses Mutt's limit feature with notmuch search --output=messages and message-id filtering. The Notmuch wiki describes this as more natural for people who think in one-folder-at-a-time Mutt workflows, but warns that it scales only for reasonably specific queries.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

notmuch-mutt is packaging glue, but important glue: it shows why Notmuch became infrastructure rather than just an email client. The separate Homebrew formula lets old-school Mutt users adopt the search/indexing layer without changing their whole mail UI.

### Chronologie

- 2011-01: Stefano Zacchiroli published a Notmuch-with-Mutt how-to referenced by the Notmuch wiki.
- 2013-01-08: Notmuch wiki page for notmuch-mutt created.
- 2026-01-31: Notmuch 0.40 released; Homebrew packages notmuch-mutt at the matching 0.40 version.

### Related projects

- notmuch
- Mutt
- NeoMutt
- notmuchfs

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/notmuch-mutt.json>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/notmuch.json>
- <https://notmuchmail.org/>
- <https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/>
- <https://notmuchmail.org/news/>
- <https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-mutt/>
- <https://notmuchmail.org/releases/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $NOTMUCH_CONFIG, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/notmuch/<profile>/config, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/notmuch/default/config, ~/.notmuch-config.<profile>, ~/.notmuch-config
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - notmuch-mutt - 0.39-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: notmuch-mutt from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | thread-based email index, search and tagging (Mutt interface) | https://notmuchmail.org/
- Nix - notmuch-mutt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: notmuch-mutt from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- Ubuntu apt - notmuch-mutt - 0.38.3-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: notmuch-mutt from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | thread-based email index, search and tagging (Mutt interface) | https://notmuchmail.org/
- dnf - notmuch-mutt - 0.40-8.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: notmuch-mutt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Notmuch (of a) helper for Mutt | https://notmuchmail.org/
- pacman - notmuch-mutt - 0.40-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: notmuch-mutt from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | The mail indexer | https://notmuchmail.org/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/notmuch-mutt.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/notmuch-mutt.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph