Hi, I think it will be nice if we can have a guide/tutorial like documentation for new users. For myself, I have the following questions (I am an alpine user previously, so some of the questions are not related to notmuch directly): 1. What's the most efficient way to sync mails from my gmail account to a local Maildir? I've tried offlineimap but it keeps crashing python (!) on my system (python 2.6, Mac OS X 10.6.2). 2. How to add notmuch.el into my .emacsrc? I know notmuch feels like a tool for geeks, but it will probably lower the barrier if someone can provide such a guide in a straightforward, step-by-step way. - Jiang