Sometimes I want to send a colleague a bunch of emails (for example, all the emails I've tagged todo or all the emails from an awesome contributor. Although notmuch usually speaks the language of maildirs, I find mboxes most convenient for attaching to emails. Their tools can usually handle it well.
I've put a bit of elisp and python up: https://github.com/jvasile/notmuch2mbox The python's help screen: > Usage: > notmuch2mbox.py [options] [search terms] > > This program uses notmuch to search for the search terms, then outputs > any found emails in mbox format. > > > Options: > -h, --help show this help message and exit > -n NOTMUCH, --notmuch=NOTMUCH > Path to notmuch binary. > -o OUTFILE, --outfile=OUTFILE > Write mbox to specified path instead of stdout The python script does a search and spits out an mbox containing anything it finds in that search. The emacs function performs that task on the current search, saving the result to a file, which you can attach to an email, open in mutt or whatever. The elisp is in the starting comments to the python. I hope this is useful to somebody. It does the trick for me in working with mbox-dependent colleagues (e.g. mutt users). I prefer mutt's threaded view to notmuch's conversation view, so I've used it to browse emails too. Regards, James
