diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/notifymuch/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/notifymuch/default.nix
similarity index 88%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/notifymuch/default.nix
rename to pkgs/applications/misc/notifymuch/default.nix
index bc1610e2ca9..e94b6f2f156 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/notifymuch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/notifymuch/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
 { lib
-, buildPythonApplication
-, isPy3k
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, notmuch
-, pygobject3
 , gobject-introspection
 , libnotify
 , wrapGAppsHook
 , gtk3
+, python3
 }:
 
-buildPythonApplication rec {
+python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "notifymuch";
   version = "0.1";
-  disabled = !isPy3k;
+  format = "setuptools";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "kspi";
@@ -24,11 +21,12 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    notmuch
-    pygobject3
     libnotify
     gtk3
-  ];
+  ] ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
+    notmuch
+    pygobject3
+  ]);
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     gobject-introspection
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 38056324332..e7d229249af 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4512,6 +4512,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   notify = callPackage ../tools/misc/notify { };
 
+  notifymuch = callPackage ../applications/misc/notifymuch { };
+
   npins = callPackage ../tools/nix/npins { };
 
   nrsc5 = callPackage ../applications/misc/nrsc5 { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index afaedf9a6e5..72fb1fa0ee1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   mutmut = throw "mutmut has been promoted to a top-level attribute"; # added 2022-10-02
   net2grid = gridnet; # add 2022-04-22
   nose-cover3 = throw "nose-cover3 has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feature, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2022-02-16
+  notifymuch = throw "notifymuch has been promoted to a top-level attribute"; # added 2022-10-02
   ordereddict = throw "ordereddict has been removed because it is only useful on unsupported python versions."; # added 2022-05-28
   pam = python-pam; # added 2020-09-07.
   PasteDeploy = pastedeploy; # added 2021-10-07
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f4595081ac2..cecd0418e73 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6250,8 +6250,6 @@ in {
 
   notify2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notify2 { };
 
-  notifymuch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notifymuch {};
-
   notmuch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notmuch {
     inherit (pkgs) notmuch;
   };