1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2 =========================
9 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
10 for a reply message and full information about the original message
11 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
12 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
14 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
15 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
16 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
17 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
21 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
22 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
24 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
25 tag in your query, for example:
27 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
29 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
30 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
32 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
33 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
35 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
37 Raw show format changes
39 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
40 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
41 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
42 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
43 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
44 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
45 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
46 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
48 Listing configuration items
50 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
56 Changes to tagging interface
58 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
59 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
60 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
61 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
62 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
65 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
66 may need to update in custom configurations.
68 Reply improvement using the JSON format
70 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
71 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
72 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
73 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
76 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
77 -----------------------------
79 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
80 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
81 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
82 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
83 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
89 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
90 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
92 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
93 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
95 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
96 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
97 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
99 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
100 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
102 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
103 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
104 returning the new database object or directory object.
111 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
112 compatible with go 1.
114 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
115 =========================
117 Command-Line Interface
118 ----------------------
122 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
123 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
124 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
125 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
127 Mail store folder/file ignore
129 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
130 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
131 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
133 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
134 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
136 Unified help and manual pages
138 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
139 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
142 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
144 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
145 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
153 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
154 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
155 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
156 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
158 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
160 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
161 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
163 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
166 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
167 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
168 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
170 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
172 should be changed to:
174 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
176 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
178 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
179 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
181 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
183 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
184 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
185 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
186 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
187 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
188 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
192 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
193 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
194 of Mailing List Archives.
196 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
198 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
199 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
202 Show view archiving key binding changes
204 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
205 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
206 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
207 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
208 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
211 Support text/calendar MIME type
213 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
216 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
218 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
219 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
220 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
221 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
223 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
225 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
226 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
227 messages blue by default in the search view.
231 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
232 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
239 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
242 Python bindings changes
243 -----------------------
245 Python 3.2 compatibility
247 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
249 Added missing unicode conversions
251 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
252 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
253 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
258 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
260 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
261 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
262 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
263 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
264 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
266 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
267 ===========================
272 Fix error handling in python bindings
274 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
275 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
276 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
277 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
279 Quote MML tags in replies
281 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
282 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
283 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
284 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
285 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
286 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
287 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
288 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
290 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
291 =========================
293 Command-Line Interface
294 ----------------------
298 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
299 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
300 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
301 importing new messages into the database.
303 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
305 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
306 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
307 sometimes. This is now fixed.
312 Automatic tag query optimization
314 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
315 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
316 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
318 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
320 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
321 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
322 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
327 Reduction of memory leaks
329 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
330 and fixed in this release.
337 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
338 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
339 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
342 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
344 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
345 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
346 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
349 Improvements in saved search management
351 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
352 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
353 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
355 Hooks for notmuch-hello
357 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
358 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
359 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
361 New face for crypto parts headers
363 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
364 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
365 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
368 Use space as default thousands separator
370 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
371 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
372 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
374 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
377 New function notmuch-show-advance
379 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
380 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
381 be bound to SPC with:
383 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
385 Various performance improvements
390 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
391 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
394 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
395 ===========================
400 Fix crash in python bindings
402 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
403 for some, but not all users.
405 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
406 ===========================
411 Fix `--help` argument
413 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
414 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
415 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
417 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
418 =========================
420 New build and testing features
421 ------------------------------
423 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
424 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
425 prerequisites is improved.
427 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
429 New command-line features
430 -------------------------
432 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
434 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
435 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
438 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
440 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
441 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
442 favour of using stdout.
444 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
446 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
447 limit the number of results shown.
449 Add `notmuch count --output` option
451 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
452 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
455 New emacs UI features
456 ---------------------
458 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
460 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
461 starting with "tag:".
463 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
465 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
466 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
468 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
470 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
472 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
474 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
475 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
480 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
482 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
484 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
485 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
486 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
487 requires a database rebuild:
489 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
490 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
492 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
494 New collection of add-on tools
495 ------------------------------
497 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
498 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
499 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
502 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
504 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
505 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
506 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
508 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
509 ========================
511 New, general features
512 ---------------------
514 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
516 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
517 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
518 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
519 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
520 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
527 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
528 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
530 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
534 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
535 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
536 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
539 Python bindings changes
540 -----------------------
542 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
544 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
545 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
546 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
547 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
548 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
549 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
551 Ruby bindings changes
552 ---------------------
554 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
555 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
556 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
557 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
562 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
564 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
565 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
567 Reply formatting cleanup
568 ------------------------
570 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
571 MIME parts are being suppressed.
573 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
574 ========================
576 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
578 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
579 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
580 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
581 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
584 Improved Build system portability
586 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
587 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
588 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
590 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
592 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
594 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
596 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
597 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
598 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
600 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
601 ========================
603 Vim interface improvements
604 --------------------------
606 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
608 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
609 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
610 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
611 * fix from list reformatting in search view
612 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
614 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
616 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
617 * fix compose temp file name
619 Python Bindings changes
620 -----------------------
622 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
624 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
625 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
627 Build-System improvements
628 -------------------------
630 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
632 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
635 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
636 ==========================
641 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
643 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
644 people running gcc 4.4.5.
646 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
647 =======================
649 New, general features
650 ---------------------
652 Folder-based searching
654 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
655 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
656 storage). The syntax is as follows:
660 For example, one might use things such as:
666 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
667 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
669 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
670 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
671 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
672 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
674 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
675 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
676 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
679 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
680 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
682 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
686 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
687 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
688 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
690 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
692 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
693 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
695 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
696 notmuch will receive these tags.
698 New command-line features
699 -------------------------
701 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
703 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
704 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
706 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
708 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
709 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
710 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
712 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
714 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
715 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
716 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
717 which parts a signature part applies).
719 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
721 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
722 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
723 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
724 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
725 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
728 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
730 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
731 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
732 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
733 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
734 by translating it internally to the new call.
736 Performance improvements
737 ------------------------
739 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
741 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
742 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
743 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
745 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
746 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
748 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
750 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
751 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
752 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
754 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
755 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
756 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
757 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
759 Faster initial indexing
761 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
762 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
763 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
765 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
767 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
768 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
769 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
770 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
772 New emacs-interface features
773 ----------------------------
775 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
777 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
778 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
779 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
780 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
781 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
782 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
784 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
786 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
787 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
788 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
789 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
791 User-selectable From address
793 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
794 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
795 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
796 will prompt for the from address to use.
798 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
799 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
800 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
802 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
803 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
804 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
807 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
809 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
810 its parent, the subject is not shown.
812 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
814 When a message contains a line looking something like:
816 ----- Original Message -----
818 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
819 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
820 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
821 citations work much like conventional citations.
823 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
825 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
826 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
827 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
828 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
829 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
831 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
832 Notmuch After Tag Hook
834 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
836 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
837 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
838 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
840 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
842 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
843 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
844 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
845 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
846 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
848 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
850 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
853 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
855 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
857 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
859 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
862 Vim interface improvements
863 --------------------------
865 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
867 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
868 * Implementing archive in show view
869 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
870 * Add delete commands
873 Bindings improvements
874 ---------------------
876 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
878 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
879 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
881 Python bindings have been updated and extended
883 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
887 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
888 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
889 `list(Messages)` works now
890 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
892 These allow, for example:
896 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
898 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
904 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
906 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
909 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
911 New build-system features
912 -------------------------
914 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
916 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
917 the configure script from some other directory:
924 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
926 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
927 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
928 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
929 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
930 manual invocation of configure.
932 New test-suite feature
933 ----------------------
935 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
937 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
938 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
939 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
940 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
941 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
944 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
946 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
947 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
948 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
949 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
950 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
951 are updated to take advantage of this.
953 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
955 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
956 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
957 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
958 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
964 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
966 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
967 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
968 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
970 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
972 This fixed a bug where a search for:
974 to:user@elsewhere.com
976 would incorrectly match a message sent:
978 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
980 Fix --output=json when search has no results
982 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
983 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
984 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
987 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
988 from the Received headers in some cases
990 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
991 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
993 Cleaned up several memory leaks
995 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
997 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
999 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1000 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1001 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1003 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1004 -------------------------
1006 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1008 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1009 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1010 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1012 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1014 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1015 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1016 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1019 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1021 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1022 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1023 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1024 fixed to avoid this bug.
1026 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1028 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1029 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1031 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1032 ========================
1034 New, general features
1035 ---------------------
1037 Maildir-flag synchronization
1039 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1040 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1049 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1051 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1052 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1053 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1054 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1056 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1057 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1058 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1059 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1062 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1064 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1065 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1066 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1068 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1069 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1071 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1072 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1074 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1075 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1076 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1078 New library features
1079 --------------------
1081 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1083 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1084 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1085 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1086 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1088 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1089 message with the new function:
1091 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1093 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1094 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1095 over all available filenames for a given message.
1097 New command-line features
1098 -------------------------
1100 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1102 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1103 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1104 access to the mail store itself.
1106 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1107 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1108 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1109 name of a script containing:
1111 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1113 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1114 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1120 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1122 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1124 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1126 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1127 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1128 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1129 now produces nothing).
1131 Emacs interface improvements
1132 ----------------------------
1134 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1136 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1138 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1140 Display current thread subject in a header line
1142 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1144 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1146 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1147 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1148 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1149 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1150 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1151 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1152 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1154 Vim interface improvements
1155 --------------------------
1157 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1159 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1160 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1166 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1168 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1169 ========================
1171 New command-line features
1172 -------------------------
1174 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1176 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1177 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1178 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1180 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1181 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1182 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1183 scripts. For example:
1185 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1186 <operations-on> "$file"
1189 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1191 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1192 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1193 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1194 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1195 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1196 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1198 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1200 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1201 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1202 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1203 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1205 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1207 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1208 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1209 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1210 default rather than Bcc.
1212 New library features
1213 --------------------
1215 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1217 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1218 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1223 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1225 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1226 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1227 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1228 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1229 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1230 notmuch customize interface.
1232 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1234 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1235 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1236 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1237 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1239 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1241 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1242 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1243 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1244 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1246 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1248 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1249 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1250 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1251 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1252 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1253 notmuch customize interface.
1255 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1257 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1258 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1259 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1260 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1261 notmuch customize interface.
1263 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1265 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1266 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1267 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1268 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1271 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1273 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1274 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1275 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1278 New build-system features
1279 -------------------------
1281 Various portability fixes have been applied
1283 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1284 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1285 more portable than ever before.
1287 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1289 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1290 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1291 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1293 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1294 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1295 automatically run ldconfig.
1297 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1298 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1299 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1301 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1302 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1303 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1304 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1306 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1308 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1309 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1310 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1311 used in the resulting Makefile.
1313 New test-suite features
1314 -----------------------
1316 New modularization of test suite
1318 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1319 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1320 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1321 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1322 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1323 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1324 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1325 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1327 New testing of emacs interface
1329 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1330 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1331 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1332 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1333 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1334 database via the FCC setting.
1339 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1341 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1342 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1343 persistent error of the form:
1345 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1347 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1348 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1350 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1352 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1353 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1354 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1356 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1358 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1359 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1360 parsing the notmuch results).
1362 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1364 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1367 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1368 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1369 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1374 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1376 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1377 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1378 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1379 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1380 the emacs interface.
1382 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1384 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1385 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1386 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1388 Python-binding fixes
1389 --------------------
1391 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1393 Debian-specific fixes
1394 ---------------------
1396 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1398 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1399 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1400 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1403 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1404 ==========================
1409 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1411 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1412 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1413 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1414 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1416 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1418 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1419 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1420 want notmuch to crash.
1425 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1427 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1428 directory does not exist
1433 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1435 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1436 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1438 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1439 ========================
1441 New command-line features
1442 -------------------------
1444 User-configurable tags for new messages
1446 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1447 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1448 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1449 to specify this value.
1451 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1453 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1454 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1455 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1457 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1459 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1460 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1462 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1464 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1465 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1466 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1467 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1468 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1471 Indication of author names that match a search
1473 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1474 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1475 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1476 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1477 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1478 messages in the thread are listed first.
1480 New: Python bindings
1481 --------------------
1483 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1484 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1485 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1486 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1488 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1489 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1490 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1493 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1494 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1495 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1497 Emacs interface improvements
1498 ----------------------------
1500 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1502 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1503 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1504 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1505 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1506 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1507 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1508 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1509 but without any of the disadvantages).
1511 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1512 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1513 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1516 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1517 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1518 instead running something like:
1520 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1522 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1523 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1524 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1527 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1529 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1530 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1531 tweaked by the user.
1533 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1534 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1535 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1538 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1539 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1540 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1543 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1545 This support currently relies on an external program,
1546 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1547 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1548 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1549 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1550 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1553 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1554 notmuch) is available via:
1556 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1558 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1559 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1560 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1562 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1564 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1565 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1566 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1567 making this automatic in a future release.
1569 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1571 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1572 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1573 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1574 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1575 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1576 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1579 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1581 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1582 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1583 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1585 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1587 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1588 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1589 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1591 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1592 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1593 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1594 other representation.
1596 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1597 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1600 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1602 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1603 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1604 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1606 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1607 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1608 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1610 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1612 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1613 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1614 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1615 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1616 to display the search result.
1618 More flexible handling of header visibility
1620 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1621 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1622 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1623 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1624 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1625 with the 'h' keybinding.
1627 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1628 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1629 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1631 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1633 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1635 Customizable formatting of search results
1637 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1638 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1639 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1641 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1643 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1645 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1650 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1652 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1653 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1654 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1655 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1661 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1663 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1664 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1666 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1668 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1669 accept are now all accepted.
1674 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1676 Better display of output from failed tests
1678 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1679 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1681 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1682 ========================
1684 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1685 detailed release notes this time!
1687 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1688 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1690 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1691 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1692 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1693 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1700 Better guessing of From: header
1702 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1703 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1704 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1705 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1706 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1709 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1711 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1712 guaranteed to match all messages.
1714 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1716 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1717 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1718 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1719 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1720 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1723 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1726 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1727 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1728 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1729 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1734 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1736 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1737 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1738 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1739 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1741 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1743 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1745 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1746 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1747 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1749 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1751 Previously, the user might see:
1753 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1757 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1759 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1760 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1761 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1762 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1764 Emacs client features
1765 ---------------------
1767 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1769 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1770 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1771 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1772 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1773 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1775 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1778 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1779 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1780 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1781 search with the '*' binding.
1783 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1785 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1786 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1789 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1791 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1792 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1793 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1795 Build-system features
1796 ---------------------
1798 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1800 Add support to configure for many standard options
1802 We include actual support for:
1804 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1806 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1808 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1809 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1811 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1812 separate "make install-emacs"
1814 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1816 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1817 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1818 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1820 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1823 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1824 ========================
1826 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1828 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1829 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1831 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1832 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1833 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1834 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1835 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1836 tags from messages in a thread.
1843 indent-tabs-mode: nil