On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:15:39 +0300, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote: > The option 2, i.e. optional --write (or -o|--output) should be available; > someone may run notmuch without using environment that provides > redirections (or it is just plain simpler to give the command line option > instead of doing redirections). If that were the case then none of the other notmuch commands would work in the environment either. If that's a concern, then notmuch should have a generic --redirect option that works for all commands, as Tom suggested out earlier. jamie.