1 Notmuch 0.12 (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 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
17 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
19 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
20 tag in your query, for example:
22 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
24 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
25 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
27 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
28 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
30 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
32 Mail store folder/file ignore
34 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
35 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
36 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
43 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
44 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
45 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
46 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
48 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
50 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
51 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
53 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
56 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
57 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
58 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
60 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
64 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
66 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
68 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
69 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
76 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
79 Python bindings changes
80 -----------------------
82 Python 3.2 compatibility
84 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
86 Added missing unicode conversions
88 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
89 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
90 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
95 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
97 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
98 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
99 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
101 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
102 ===========================
107 Fix error handling in python bindings.
109 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
110 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
111 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
112 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
114 Quote MML tags in replies
116 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
117 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
118 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
119 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
120 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
121 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
122 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
123 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
125 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
126 =========================
128 Command-Line Interface
129 ----------------------
133 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
134 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
135 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
136 importing new messages into the database.
138 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
140 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
141 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
142 sometimes. This is now fixed.
147 Automatic tag query optimization
149 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
150 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
151 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
153 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
155 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
156 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
157 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
162 Reduction of memory leaks
164 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
165 and fixed in this release.
172 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
173 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
174 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
177 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
179 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
180 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
181 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
184 Improvements in saved search management
186 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
187 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
188 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
190 Hooks for notmuch-hello
192 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
193 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
194 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
196 New face for crypto parts headers
198 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
199 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
200 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
203 Use space as default thousands separator
205 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
206 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
207 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
209 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
210 buttonized id: links.
212 New function notmuch-show-advance
214 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
215 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
216 be bound to SPC with:
218 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
220 Various performance improvements.
225 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
226 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
229 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
230 ===========================
235 Fix crash in python bindings.
237 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
238 for some, but not all users.
240 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
241 ===========================
248 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
249 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
252 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
253 =========================
255 New build and testing features
256 ------------------------------
258 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
259 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
260 prerequisites is improved.
262 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
264 New command-line features
265 -------------------------
267 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
269 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
270 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
273 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
275 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
276 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
277 favour of using stdout.
279 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
281 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
282 the number of results shown.
284 Add "notmuch count --output" option
286 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
287 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
289 New emacs UI features
290 ---------------------
292 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
294 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
295 starting with "tag:".
297 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
299 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
300 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
302 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
304 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
306 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
308 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
309 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
314 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
316 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
318 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
319 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
320 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
321 requires a database rebuild:
323 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
324 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
326 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
328 New collection of add-on tools
329 ------------------------------
331 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
332 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
333 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
336 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
338 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
339 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
340 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
342 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
343 ========================
345 New, general features
346 ---------------------
348 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
350 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
351 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
352 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
353 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
354 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
361 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
362 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
364 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
368 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
369 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
370 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
373 Python bindings changes
374 -----------------------
376 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
378 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
379 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
380 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
381 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
382 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
383 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
385 Ruby bindings changes
386 ---------------------
388 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
389 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
390 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
391 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
396 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
398 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
399 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
401 Reply formatting cleanup
402 ------------------------
404 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
405 MIME parts are being suppressed.
407 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
408 ========================
410 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
412 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
413 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
414 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
415 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
418 Improved Build system portability
420 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
421 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
422 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
424 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
426 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
428 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
430 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
431 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
432 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
434 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
435 ========================
437 Vim interface improvements
438 --------------------------
440 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
442 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
443 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
444 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
445 * fix from list reformatting in search view
446 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
448 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
450 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
451 * fix compose temp file name
453 Python Bindings changes
454 -----------------------
456 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
458 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
459 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
461 Build-System improvements
462 ------------------------
464 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
466 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
469 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
470 ==========================
475 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
477 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
478 people running gcc 4.4.5.
480 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
481 =======================
482 New, general features
483 ---------------------
484 Folder-based searching
486 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
487 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
488 storage). The syntax is as follows:
492 For example, one might use things such as:
498 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
499 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
501 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
502 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
503 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
504 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
506 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
507 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
508 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
511 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
512 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
514 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
518 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
519 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
520 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
522 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
524 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
525 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
527 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
528 notmuch will receive these tags.
530 New command-line features
531 -------------------------
532 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
534 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
535 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
537 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
539 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
540 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
541 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
543 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
545 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
546 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
547 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
548 which parts a signature part applies).
550 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
552 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
553 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
554 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
555 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
556 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
559 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
561 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
562 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
563 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
564 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
565 by translating it internally to the new call.
567 Performance improvements
568 ------------------------
569 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
571 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
572 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
573 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
575 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
576 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
578 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
580 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
581 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
582 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
584 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
585 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
586 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
587 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
589 Faster initial indexing
591 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
592 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
593 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
595 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
597 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
598 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
599 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
600 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
602 New emacs-interface features
603 ----------------------------
605 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
607 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
608 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
609 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
610 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
611 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
612 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
614 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
616 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
617 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
618 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
619 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
621 User-selectable From address
623 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
624 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
625 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
626 will prompt for the from address to use.
628 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
629 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
630 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
632 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
633 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
634 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
637 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
639 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
640 its parent, the subject is not shown.
642 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
644 When a message contains a line looking something like:
646 ----- Original Message -----
648 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
649 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
650 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
651 citations work much like conventional citations.
653 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
655 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
656 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
657 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
658 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
659 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
661 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
662 Notmuch After Tag Hook
664 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
666 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
667 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
668 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
670 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
672 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
673 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
674 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
675 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
676 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
678 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
680 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
683 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
685 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
687 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
688 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
690 Vim interface improvements
691 --------------------------
692 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
694 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
695 * Implementing archive in show view
696 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
697 * Add delete commands
700 Bindings improvements
701 ---------------------
702 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
704 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
705 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
707 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
708 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
711 - Message().get_filenames(),
712 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
713 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
715 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
716 These allow, for example:
719 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
721 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
726 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
727 Use len(list(Messages())) or
728 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
730 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
732 New build-system features
733 -------------------------
734 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
736 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
737 the configure script from some other directory:
744 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
746 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
747 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
748 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
749 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
750 manual invocation of configure.
752 New test-suite feature
753 ----------------------
754 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
756 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
757 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
758 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
759 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
760 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
763 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
765 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
766 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
767 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
768 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
769 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
770 are updated to take advantage of this.
772 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
774 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
775 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
776 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
777 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
782 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
784 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
785 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
786 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
788 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
790 This fixed a bug where a search for:
792 to:user@elsewhere.com
794 would incorrectly match a message sent:
796 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
798 Fix --output=json when search has no results
800 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
801 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
802 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
805 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
806 from the Received headers in some cases.
808 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
809 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
811 Cleaned up several memory leaks
813 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
815 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
817 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
818 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
819 interface and were never intended to be exported.
821 Emacs-interface bug fixes
822 -------------------------
823 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
825 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
826 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
827 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
829 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
831 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
832 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
833 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
836 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
838 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
839 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
840 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
841 fixed to avoid this bug.
843 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
845 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
846 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
848 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
849 ========================
850 New, general features
851 ---------------------
852 Maildir-flag synchronization
854 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
855 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
864 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
866 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
867 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
868 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
869 renamed with an 'R' flag).
871 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
872 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
873 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
874 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
877 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
879 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
880 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
881 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
883 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
884 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
886 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
887 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
889 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
890 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
891 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
895 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
897 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
898 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
899 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
900 notmuch_message_get_filename).
902 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
903 message with the new function:
905 notmuch_message_get_filenames
907 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
908 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
909 all available filenames for a given message.
911 New command-line features
912 -------------------------
913 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
915 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
916 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
917 access to the mail store itself.
919 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
920 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
921 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
922 name of a script containing:
924 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
926 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
927 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
932 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
934 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
936 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
938 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
939 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
940 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
941 now produces nothing).
943 Emacs interface improvements
944 ----------------------------
945 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
947 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
949 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
951 Display current thread subject in a header line.
953 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
955 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
957 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
958 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
959 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
960 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
961 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
962 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
963 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
965 Vim interface improvements
966 --------------------------
967 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
969 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
970 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
975 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
977 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
978 ========================
979 New command-line features
980 -------------------------
981 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
983 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
984 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
985 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
987 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
988 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
989 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
990 scripts. For example:
992 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
993 <operations-on> "$file"
996 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
998 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
999 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1000 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1001 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1002 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1003 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1005 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1007 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1008 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1009 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1010 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1012 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1014 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1015 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1016 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1017 default rather than Bcc.
1019 New library features
1020 --------------------
1021 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1023 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1024 notmuch_query_t object.
1028 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1030 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1031 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1032 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1033 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1034 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1035 notmuch customize interface.
1037 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1039 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1040 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1041 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1042 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1044 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1046 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1047 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1048 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1049 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1051 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1053 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1054 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1055 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1056 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1057 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1058 notmuch customize interface.
1060 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1062 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1063 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1064 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1065 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1066 notmuch customize interface.
1068 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1070 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1071 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1072 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1073 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1076 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1078 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1079 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1080 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1083 New build-system features
1084 -------------------------
1085 Various portability fixes have been applied
1087 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1088 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1089 more portable than ever before.
1091 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1093 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1094 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1095 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1097 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1098 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1099 automatically run ldconfig.
1101 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1102 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1103 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1105 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1106 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1107 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1108 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1110 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1112 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1113 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1114 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1115 used in the resulting Makefile.
1117 New test-suite features
1118 -----------------------
1119 New modularization of test suite.
1121 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1122 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1123 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1124 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1125 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1126 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1127 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1128 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1130 New testing of emacs interface.
1132 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1133 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1134 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1135 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1136 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1137 database via the FCC setting.
1141 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1143 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1144 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1145 persistent error of the form:
1147 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1149 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1150 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1152 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1154 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1155 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1156 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1158 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1160 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1161 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1162 parsing the notmuch results).
1164 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1166 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1168 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1169 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1170 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1174 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1176 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1177 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1178 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1179 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1180 the emacs interface.
1182 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1184 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1185 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1186 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1188 Python-binding fixes
1189 --------------------
1190 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1192 Debian-specific fixes
1193 ---------------------
1194 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1196 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1197 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1198 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1201 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1202 ==========================
1205 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1207 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1208 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1209 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1210 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1212 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1214 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1215 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1216 want notmuch to crash.
1220 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1222 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1223 directory does not exist.
1227 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1229 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1230 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1232 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1233 ========================
1234 New command-line features
1235 -------------------------
1236 User-configurable tags for new messages
1238 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1239 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1240 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1241 to specify this value.
1243 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1245 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1246 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1247 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1249 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1251 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1252 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1254 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1256 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1257 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1258 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1259 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1260 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1263 Indication of author names that match a search
1265 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1266 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1267 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1268 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1269 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1270 messages in the thread are listed first.
1272 New: Python bindings
1273 --------------------
1274 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1275 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1276 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1277 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1279 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1280 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1281 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1284 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1285 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1286 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1288 Emacs interface improvements
1289 ----------------------------
1290 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1292 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1293 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1294 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1295 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1296 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1297 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1298 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1299 but without any of the disadvantages).
1301 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1302 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1303 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1306 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1307 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1308 recommend instead running something like:
1310 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1312 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1313 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1314 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1317 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1319 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1320 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1321 tweaked by the user.
1323 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1324 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1325 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1328 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1329 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1330 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1333 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1335 This support currently relies on an external program,
1336 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1337 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1338 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1339 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1340 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1343 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1344 notmuch) is available via:
1346 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1348 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1349 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1350 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1352 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1354 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1355 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1356 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1357 making this automatic in a future release.
1359 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1361 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1362 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1363 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1364 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1365 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1366 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1369 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1371 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1372 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1373 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1375 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1377 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1378 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1379 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1381 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1382 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1383 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1384 other representation.
1386 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1387 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1390 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1392 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1393 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1394 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1396 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1397 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1398 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1400 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1402 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1403 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1404 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1405 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1406 to display the search result.
1408 More flexible handling of header visibility
1410 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1411 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1412 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1413 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1414 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1415 with the 'h' keybinding.
1417 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1418 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1419 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1421 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1423 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1425 Customizable formatting of search results
1427 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1428 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1429 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1431 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1433 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1435 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1439 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1441 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1442 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1443 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1444 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1449 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1451 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1452 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1454 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1456 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1457 accept are now all accepted.
1461 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1463 Better display of output from failed tests.
1465 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1466 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1468 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1469 ========================
1470 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1471 detailed release notes this time!
1473 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1474 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1476 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1477 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1478 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1479 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1485 Better guessing of From: header.
1487 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1488 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1489 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1490 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1491 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1494 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1496 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1497 guaranteed to match all messages.
1499 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1501 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1502 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1503 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1504 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1505 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1508 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1511 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1512 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1513 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1514 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1518 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1520 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1521 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1522 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1523 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1525 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1527 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1529 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1530 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1531 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1533 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1535 Previously, the user might see:
1537 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1541 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1543 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1544 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1545 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1546 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1548 Emacs client features
1549 ---------------------
1550 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1552 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1553 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1554 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1555 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1556 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1558 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1561 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1562 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1563 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1564 search with the '*' binding.
1566 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1568 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1569 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1572 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1574 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1575 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1576 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1578 Build-system features
1579 ---------------------
1580 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1582 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1584 We include actual support for:
1586 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1588 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1590 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1591 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1593 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1594 separate "make install-emacs".
1596 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1598 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1599 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1600 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1602 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1605 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1606 ========================
1607 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1609 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1610 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1612 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1613 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1614 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1615 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1616 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1617 tags from messages in a thread.