Notmuch Email Corpus

A corpus of about 209k messages is available for performance testing of notmuch (or other uses).

The contents are as follows

• Mail/notmuch-archive: archive of the notmuch mailing list.

  • last updated 2012-11-17

  • converted from mbox with mb2md 3.20.

• Mail/enron: selected data from the EDRM v2 enron data set

  • CC Attribution: "ZL Technologies, Inc. (http://www.zlti.com)"

  • Downloaded via bittorrent

    http://www.searchdaimon.com/community/dataset/

  • massaged with scripts/unpack-enron.sh (in the corpus tarball)

• Mail/lkml: lkml messages 1000000 to 1100000 from the gmane archive

The corpus is gpg signed by David Bremner with key fingerprint:

 7A18 807F 100A 4570 C596  8420 7E4E 65C8 720B 706B

You can download the corpus from

• notmuchmail.org signature