1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
47 Reply improvement using the JSON format
49 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
50 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
51 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
52 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
55 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
56 -----------------------------
58 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
59 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
60 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
61 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
62 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
65 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
66 =========================
68 Command-Line Interface
69 ----------------------
73 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
74 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
75 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
76 --reply-to=(all|sender).
78 Mail store folder/file ignore
80 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
81 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
82 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
84 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
85 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
87 Unified help and manual pages
89 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
90 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
93 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
95 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
96 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
104 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
105 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
106 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
107 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
109 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
111 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
112 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
114 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
117 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
118 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
119 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
121 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
123 should be changed to:
125 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
127 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
129 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
130 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
132 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
134 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
135 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
136 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
137 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
138 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
139 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
143 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
144 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
145 of Mailing List Archives.
147 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
149 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
150 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
153 Show view archiving key binding changes
155 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
156 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
157 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
158 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
159 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
162 Support text/calendar MIME type
164 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
167 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
169 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
170 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
171 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
172 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
174 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
176 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
177 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
178 messages blue by default in the search view.
182 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
183 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
190 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
193 Python bindings changes
194 -----------------------
196 Python 3.2 compatibility
198 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
200 Added missing unicode conversions
202 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
203 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
204 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
209 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
211 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
212 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
213 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
214 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
215 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
217 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
218 ===========================
223 Fix error handling in python bindings.
225 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
226 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
227 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
228 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
230 Quote MML tags in replies
232 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
233 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
234 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
235 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
236 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
237 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
238 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
239 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
241 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
242 =========================
244 Command-Line Interface
245 ----------------------
249 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
250 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
251 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
252 importing new messages into the database.
254 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
256 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
257 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
258 sometimes. This is now fixed.
263 Automatic tag query optimization
265 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
266 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
267 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
269 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
271 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
272 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
273 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
278 Reduction of memory leaks
280 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
281 and fixed in this release.
288 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
289 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
290 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
293 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
295 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
296 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
297 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
300 Improvements in saved search management
302 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
303 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
304 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
306 Hooks for notmuch-hello
308 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
309 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
310 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
312 New face for crypto parts headers
314 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
315 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
316 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
319 Use space as default thousands separator
321 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
322 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
323 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
325 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
326 buttonized id: links.
328 New function notmuch-show-advance
330 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
331 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
332 be bound to SPC with:
334 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
336 Various performance improvements.
341 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
342 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
345 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
346 ===========================
351 Fix crash in python bindings.
353 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
354 for some, but not all users.
356 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
357 ===========================
364 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
365 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
368 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
369 =========================
371 New build and testing features
372 ------------------------------
374 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
375 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
376 prerequisites is improved.
378 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
380 New command-line features
381 -------------------------
383 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
385 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
386 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
389 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
391 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
392 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
393 favour of using stdout.
395 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
397 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
398 the number of results shown.
400 Add "notmuch count --output" option
402 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
403 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
405 New emacs UI features
406 ---------------------
408 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
410 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
411 starting with "tag:".
413 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
415 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
416 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
418 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
420 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
422 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
424 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
425 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
430 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
432 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
434 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
435 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
436 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
437 requires a database rebuild:
439 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
440 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
442 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
444 New collection of add-on tools
445 ------------------------------
447 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
448 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
449 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
452 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
454 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
455 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
456 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
458 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
459 ========================
461 New, general features
462 ---------------------
464 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
466 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
467 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
468 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
469 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
470 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
477 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
478 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
480 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
484 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
485 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
486 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
489 Python bindings changes
490 -----------------------
492 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
494 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
495 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
496 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
497 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
498 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
499 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
501 Ruby bindings changes
502 ---------------------
504 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
505 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
506 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
507 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
512 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
514 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
515 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
517 Reply formatting cleanup
518 ------------------------
520 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
521 MIME parts are being suppressed.
523 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
524 ========================
526 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
528 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
529 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
530 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
531 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
534 Improved Build system portability
536 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
537 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
538 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
540 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
542 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
544 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
546 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
547 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
548 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
550 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
551 ========================
553 Vim interface improvements
554 --------------------------
556 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
558 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
559 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
560 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
561 * fix from list reformatting in search view
562 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
564 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
566 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
567 * fix compose temp file name
569 Python Bindings changes
570 -----------------------
572 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
574 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
575 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
577 Build-System improvements
578 ------------------------
580 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
582 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
585 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
586 ==========================
591 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
593 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
594 people running gcc 4.4.5.
596 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
597 =======================
598 New, general features
599 ---------------------
600 Folder-based searching
602 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
603 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
604 storage). The syntax is as follows:
608 For example, one might use things such as:
614 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
615 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
617 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
618 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
619 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
620 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
622 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
623 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
624 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
627 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
628 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
630 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
634 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
635 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
636 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
638 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
640 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
641 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
643 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
644 notmuch will receive these tags.
646 New command-line features
647 -------------------------
648 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
650 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
651 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
653 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
655 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
656 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
657 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
659 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
661 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
662 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
663 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
664 which parts a signature part applies).
666 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
668 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
669 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
670 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
671 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
672 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
675 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
677 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
678 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
679 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
680 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
681 by translating it internally to the new call.
683 Performance improvements
684 ------------------------
685 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
687 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
688 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
689 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
691 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
692 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
694 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
696 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
697 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
698 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
700 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
701 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
702 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
703 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
705 Faster initial indexing
707 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
708 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
709 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
711 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
713 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
714 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
715 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
716 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
718 New emacs-interface features
719 ----------------------------
721 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
723 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
724 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
725 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
726 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
727 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
728 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
730 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
732 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
733 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
734 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
735 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
737 User-selectable From address
739 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
740 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
741 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
742 will prompt for the from address to use.
744 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
745 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
746 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
748 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
749 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
750 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
753 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
755 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
756 its parent, the subject is not shown.
758 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
760 When a message contains a line looking something like:
762 ----- Original Message -----
764 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
765 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
766 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
767 citations work much like conventional citations.
769 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
771 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
772 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
773 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
774 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
775 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
777 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
778 Notmuch After Tag Hook
780 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
782 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
783 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
784 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
786 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
788 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
789 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
790 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
791 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
792 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
794 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
796 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
799 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
801 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
803 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
804 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
806 Vim interface improvements
807 --------------------------
808 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
810 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
811 * Implementing archive in show view
812 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
813 * Add delete commands
816 Bindings improvements
817 ---------------------
818 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
820 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
821 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
823 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
824 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
827 - Message().get_filenames(),
828 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
829 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
831 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
832 These allow, for example:
835 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
837 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
842 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
843 Use len(list(Messages())) or
844 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
846 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
848 New build-system features
849 -------------------------
850 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
852 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
853 the configure script from some other directory:
860 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
862 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
863 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
864 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
865 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
866 manual invocation of configure.
868 New test-suite feature
869 ----------------------
870 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
872 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
873 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
874 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
875 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
876 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
879 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
881 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
882 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
883 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
884 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
885 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
886 are updated to take advantage of this.
888 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
890 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
891 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
892 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
893 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
898 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
900 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
901 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
902 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
904 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
906 This fixed a bug where a search for:
908 to:user@elsewhere.com
910 would incorrectly match a message sent:
912 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
914 Fix --output=json when search has no results
916 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
917 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
918 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
921 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
922 from the Received headers in some cases.
924 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
925 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
927 Cleaned up several memory leaks
929 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
931 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
933 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
934 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
935 interface and were never intended to be exported.
937 Emacs-interface bug fixes
938 -------------------------
939 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
941 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
942 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
943 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
945 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
947 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
948 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
949 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
952 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
954 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
955 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
956 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
957 fixed to avoid this bug.
959 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
961 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
962 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
964 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
965 ========================
966 New, general features
967 ---------------------
968 Maildir-flag synchronization
970 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
971 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
980 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
982 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
983 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
984 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
985 renamed with an 'R' flag).
987 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
988 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
989 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
990 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
993 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
995 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
996 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
997 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
999 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1000 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1002 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1003 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1005 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1006 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1007 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1009 New library features
1010 --------------------
1011 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1013 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1014 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1015 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1016 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1018 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1019 message with the new function:
1021 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1023 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1024 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1025 all available filenames for a given message.
1027 New command-line features
1028 -------------------------
1029 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1031 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1032 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1033 access to the mail store itself.
1035 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1036 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1037 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1038 name of a script containing:
1040 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1042 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1043 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1048 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1050 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1052 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1054 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1055 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1056 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1057 now produces nothing).
1059 Emacs interface improvements
1060 ----------------------------
1061 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1063 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1065 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1067 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1069 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1071 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1073 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1074 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1075 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1076 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1077 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1078 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1079 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1081 Vim interface improvements
1082 --------------------------
1083 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1085 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1086 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1091 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1093 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1094 ========================
1095 New command-line features
1096 -------------------------
1097 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1099 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1100 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1101 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1103 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1104 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1105 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1106 scripts. For example:
1108 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1109 <operations-on> "$file"
1112 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1114 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1115 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1116 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1117 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1118 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1119 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1121 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1123 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1124 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1125 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1126 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1128 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1130 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1131 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1132 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1133 default rather than Bcc.
1135 New library features
1136 --------------------
1137 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1139 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1140 notmuch_query_t object.
1144 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1146 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1147 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1148 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1149 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1150 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1151 notmuch customize interface.
1153 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1155 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1156 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1157 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1158 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1160 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1162 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1163 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1164 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1165 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1167 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1169 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1170 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1171 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1172 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1173 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1174 notmuch customize interface.
1176 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1178 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1179 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1180 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1181 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1182 notmuch customize interface.
1184 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1186 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1187 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1188 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1189 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1192 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1194 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1195 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1196 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1199 New build-system features
1200 -------------------------
1201 Various portability fixes have been applied
1203 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1204 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1205 more portable than ever before.
1207 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1209 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1210 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1211 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1213 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1214 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1215 automatically run ldconfig.
1217 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1218 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1219 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1221 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1222 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1223 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1224 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1226 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1228 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1229 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1230 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1231 used in the resulting Makefile.
1233 New test-suite features
1234 -----------------------
1235 New modularization of test suite.
1237 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1238 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1239 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1240 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1241 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1242 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1243 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1244 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1246 New testing of emacs interface.
1248 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1249 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1250 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1251 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1252 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1253 database via the FCC setting.
1257 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1259 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1260 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1261 persistent error of the form:
1263 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1265 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1266 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1268 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1270 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1271 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1272 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1274 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1276 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1277 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1278 parsing the notmuch results).
1280 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1282 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1284 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1285 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1286 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1290 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1292 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1293 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1294 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1295 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1296 the emacs interface.
1298 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1300 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1301 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1302 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1304 Python-binding fixes
1305 --------------------
1306 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1308 Debian-specific fixes
1309 ---------------------
1310 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1312 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1313 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1314 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1317 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1318 ==========================
1321 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1323 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1324 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1325 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1326 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1328 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1330 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1331 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1332 want notmuch to crash.
1336 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1338 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1339 directory does not exist.
1343 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1345 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1346 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1348 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1349 ========================
1350 New command-line features
1351 -------------------------
1352 User-configurable tags for new messages
1354 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1355 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1356 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1357 to specify this value.
1359 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1361 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1362 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1363 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1365 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1367 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1368 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1370 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1372 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1373 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1374 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1375 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1376 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1379 Indication of author names that match a search
1381 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1382 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1383 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1384 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1385 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1386 messages in the thread are listed first.
1388 New: Python bindings
1389 --------------------
1390 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1391 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1392 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1393 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1395 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1396 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1397 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1400 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1401 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1402 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1404 Emacs interface improvements
1405 ----------------------------
1406 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1408 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1409 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1410 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1411 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1412 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1413 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1414 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1415 but without any of the disadvantages).
1417 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1418 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1419 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1422 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1423 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1424 recommend instead running something like:
1426 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1428 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1429 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1430 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1433 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1435 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1436 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1437 tweaked by the user.
1439 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1440 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1441 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1444 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1445 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1446 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1449 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1451 This support currently relies on an external program,
1452 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1453 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1454 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1455 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1456 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1459 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1460 notmuch) is available via:
1462 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1464 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1465 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1466 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1468 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1470 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1471 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1472 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1473 making this automatic in a future release.
1475 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1477 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1478 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1479 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1480 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1481 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1482 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1485 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1487 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1488 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1489 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1491 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1493 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1494 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1495 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1497 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1498 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1499 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1500 other representation.
1502 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1503 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1506 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1508 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1509 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1510 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1512 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1513 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1514 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1516 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1518 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1519 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1520 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1521 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1522 to display the search result.
1524 More flexible handling of header visibility
1526 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1527 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1528 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1529 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1530 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1531 with the 'h' keybinding.
1533 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1534 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1535 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1537 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1539 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1541 Customizable formatting of search results
1543 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1544 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1545 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1547 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1549 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1551 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1555 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1557 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1558 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1559 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1560 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1565 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1567 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1568 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1570 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1572 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1573 accept are now all accepted.
1577 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1579 Better display of output from failed tests.
1581 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1582 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1584 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1585 ========================
1586 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1587 detailed release notes this time!
1589 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1590 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1592 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1593 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1594 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1595 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1601 Better guessing of From: header.
1603 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1604 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1605 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1606 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1607 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1610 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1612 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1613 guaranteed to match all messages.
1615 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1617 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1618 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1619 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1620 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1621 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1624 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1627 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1628 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1629 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1630 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1634 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1636 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1637 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1638 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1639 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1641 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1643 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1645 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1646 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1647 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1649 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1651 Previously, the user might see:
1653 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1657 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1659 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1660 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1661 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1662 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1664 Emacs client features
1665 ---------------------
1666 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1668 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1669 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1670 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1671 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1672 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1674 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1677 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1678 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1679 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1680 search with the '*' binding.
1682 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1684 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1685 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1688 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1690 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1691 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1692 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1694 Build-system features
1695 ---------------------
1696 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1698 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1700 We include actual support for:
1702 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1704 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1706 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1707 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1709 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1710 separate "make install-emacs".
1712 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1714 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1715 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1716 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1718 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1721 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1722 ========================
1723 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1725 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1726 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1728 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1729 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1730 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1731 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1732 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1733 tags from messages in a thread.