On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:39:23 -0500, don warner saklad <don.saklad@gmail.com> wrote:
> a) For gmail how do you setup notmuch mail ?...
> 
> b) Any workarounds?
> 
> c) Any kludges?

notmuch wants to be able to access your mail as individual files in the
filesystem. That means you need a way to get the mail from Gmail onto
your local system.

Many people around here do that using offlineimap, which will
synchronise an IMAP server (Gmail in this instance) with various local
directories in Maildir format.

You can also use fetchmail or getmail or ... to achieve similar end
results, but I think that offlineimap is more common and therefore
you're more likely to get help.

You could, of course, have Gmail forward your mail to some place that
you can run an SMTP server and notmuch.

Sending mail via Gmail can be done in various ways. You can set up your
local MTA (Postfix, Exim, ...) to deliver mail via Gmail, or have Emacs
do the same directly using the smtpmail.el package.