There was a great thread on HN before that motivated me to install mutt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182582

I found this tutorial that I wanted to follow in that thread: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

I do have offlineimap and mutt already setup and I can read emails, but haven't installed notmuch or done any configuration. Seeing 1.6 release reminds me that I should give it a fair try again.