Hi there, I'm a new notmuch/alot user, this is my first mail since I switched from sup. Yes, switched. notmuch/alot works for me well enough now to be usable. I run Arch Linux. Here's some information for fellow Archers: PKGBUILD for alot-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54955 Should work just fine. If you want to help debug alot, change _gitname=master to the name of the branch, build and install as usual. You should currently avoid the alot PKGBUILD from AUR, it also points to git and has some other mistakes. I'll see to it that it gets deleted and maybe put a PKGBUILD with the release-version into its place. Another little trap: Arch doesn't supply a mailcap file, alot needs it for all those funky html mails. As a solution until alot handles those mails better: create ~/.mailcap put the following line into it: text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html Hope that helps, thanks Patrick for writing alot, fixing bugs and helping with the config. Regards, Philipp