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).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
28 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
29 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
30 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
31 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
33 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
35 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
36 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
38 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
41 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
42 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
43 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
45 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
49 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
51 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
53 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
54 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
56 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
58 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
59 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
60 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
61 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
62 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
63 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
67 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
68 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
69 of Mailing List Archives.
71 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
73 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
74 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
82 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
85 Python bindings changes
86 -----------------------
88 Python 3.2 compatibility
90 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
92 Added missing unicode conversions
94 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
95 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
96 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
101 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
103 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
104 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
105 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
107 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
108 ===========================
113 Fix error handling in python bindings.
115 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
116 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
117 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
118 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
120 Quote MML tags in replies
122 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
123 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
124 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
125 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
126 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
127 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
128 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
129 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
131 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
132 =========================
134 Command-Line Interface
135 ----------------------
139 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
140 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
141 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
142 importing new messages into the database.
144 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
146 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
147 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
148 sometimes. This is now fixed.
153 Automatic tag query optimization
155 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
156 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
157 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
159 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
161 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
162 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
163 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
168 Reduction of memory leaks
170 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
171 and fixed in this release.
178 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
179 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
180 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
183 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
185 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
186 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
187 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
190 Improvements in saved search management
192 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
193 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
194 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
196 Hooks for notmuch-hello
198 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
199 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
200 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
202 New face for crypto parts headers
204 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
205 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
206 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
209 Use space as default thousands separator
211 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
212 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
213 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
215 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
216 buttonized id: links.
218 New function notmuch-show-advance
220 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
221 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
222 be bound to SPC with:
224 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
226 Various performance improvements.
231 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
232 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
235 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
236 ===========================
241 Fix crash in python bindings.
243 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
244 for some, but not all users.
246 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
247 ===========================
254 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
255 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
258 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
259 =========================
261 New build and testing features
262 ------------------------------
264 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
265 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
266 prerequisites is improved.
268 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
270 New command-line features
271 -------------------------
273 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
275 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
276 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
279 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
281 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
282 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
283 favour of using stdout.
285 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
287 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
288 the number of results shown.
290 Add "notmuch count --output" option
292 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
293 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
295 New emacs UI features
296 ---------------------
298 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
300 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
301 starting with "tag:".
303 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
305 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
306 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
308 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
310 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
312 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
314 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
315 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
320 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
322 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
324 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
325 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
326 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
327 requires a database rebuild:
329 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
330 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
332 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
334 New collection of add-on tools
335 ------------------------------
337 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
338 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
339 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
342 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
344 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
345 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
346 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
348 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
349 ========================
351 New, general features
352 ---------------------
354 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
356 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
357 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
358 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
359 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
360 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
367 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
368 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
370 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
374 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
375 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
376 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
379 Python bindings changes
380 -----------------------
382 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
384 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
385 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
386 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
387 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
388 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
389 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
391 Ruby bindings changes
392 ---------------------
394 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
395 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
396 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
397 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
402 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
404 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
405 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
407 Reply formatting cleanup
408 ------------------------
410 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
411 MIME parts are being suppressed.
413 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
414 ========================
416 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
418 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
419 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
420 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
421 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
424 Improved Build system portability
426 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
427 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
428 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
430 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
432 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
434 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
436 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
437 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
438 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
440 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
441 ========================
443 Vim interface improvements
444 --------------------------
446 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
448 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
449 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
450 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
451 * fix from list reformatting in search view
452 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
454 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
456 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
457 * fix compose temp file name
459 Python Bindings changes
460 -----------------------
462 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
464 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
465 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
467 Build-System improvements
468 ------------------------
470 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
472 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
475 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
476 ==========================
481 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
483 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
484 people running gcc 4.4.5.
486 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
487 =======================
488 New, general features
489 ---------------------
490 Folder-based searching
492 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
493 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
494 storage). The syntax is as follows:
498 For example, one might use things such as:
504 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
505 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
507 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
508 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
509 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
510 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
512 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
513 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
514 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
517 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
518 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
520 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
524 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
525 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
526 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
528 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
530 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
531 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
533 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
534 notmuch will receive these tags.
536 New command-line features
537 -------------------------
538 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
540 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
541 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
543 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
545 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
546 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
547 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
549 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
551 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
552 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
553 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
554 which parts a signature part applies).
556 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
558 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
559 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
560 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
561 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
562 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
565 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
567 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
568 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
569 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
570 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
571 by translating it internally to the new call.
573 Performance improvements
574 ------------------------
575 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
577 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
578 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
579 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
581 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
582 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
584 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
586 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
587 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
588 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
590 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
591 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
592 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
593 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
595 Faster initial indexing
597 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
598 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
599 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
601 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
603 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
604 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
605 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
606 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
608 New emacs-interface features
609 ----------------------------
611 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
613 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
614 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
615 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
616 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
617 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
618 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
620 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
622 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
623 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
624 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
625 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
627 User-selectable From address
629 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
630 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
631 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
632 will prompt for the from address to use.
634 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
635 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
636 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
638 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
639 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
640 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
643 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
645 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
646 its parent, the subject is not shown.
648 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
650 When a message contains a line looking something like:
652 ----- Original Message -----
654 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
655 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
656 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
657 citations work much like conventional citations.
659 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
661 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
662 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
663 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
664 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
665 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
667 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
668 Notmuch After Tag Hook
670 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
672 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
673 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
674 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
676 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
678 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
679 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
680 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
681 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
682 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
684 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
686 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
689 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
691 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
693 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
694 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
696 Vim interface improvements
697 --------------------------
698 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
700 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
701 * Implementing archive in show view
702 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
703 * Add delete commands
706 Bindings improvements
707 ---------------------
708 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
710 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
711 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
713 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
714 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
717 - Message().get_filenames(),
718 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
719 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
721 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
722 These allow, for example:
725 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
727 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
732 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
733 Use len(list(Messages())) or
734 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
736 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
738 New build-system features
739 -------------------------
740 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
742 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
743 the configure script from some other directory:
750 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
752 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
753 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
754 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
755 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
756 manual invocation of configure.
758 New test-suite feature
759 ----------------------
760 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
762 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
763 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
764 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
765 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
766 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
769 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
771 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
772 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
773 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
774 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
775 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
776 are updated to take advantage of this.
778 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
780 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
781 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
782 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
783 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
788 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
790 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
791 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
792 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
794 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
796 This fixed a bug where a search for:
798 to:user@elsewhere.com
800 would incorrectly match a message sent:
802 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
804 Fix --output=json when search has no results
806 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
807 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
808 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
811 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
812 from the Received headers in some cases.
814 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
815 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
817 Cleaned up several memory leaks
819 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
821 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
823 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
824 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
825 interface and were never intended to be exported.
827 Emacs-interface bug fixes
828 -------------------------
829 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
831 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
832 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
833 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
835 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
837 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
838 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
839 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
842 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
844 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
845 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
846 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
847 fixed to avoid this bug.
849 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
851 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
852 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
854 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
855 ========================
856 New, general features
857 ---------------------
858 Maildir-flag synchronization
860 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
861 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
870 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
872 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
873 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
874 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
875 renamed with an 'R' flag).
877 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
878 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
879 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
880 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
883 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
885 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
886 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
887 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
889 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
890 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
892 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
893 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
895 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
896 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
897 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
901 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
903 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
904 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
905 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
906 notmuch_message_get_filename).
908 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
909 message with the new function:
911 notmuch_message_get_filenames
913 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
914 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
915 all available filenames for a given message.
917 New command-line features
918 -------------------------
919 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
921 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
922 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
923 access to the mail store itself.
925 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
926 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
927 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
928 name of a script containing:
930 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
932 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
933 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
938 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
940 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
942 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
944 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
945 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
946 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
947 now produces nothing).
949 Emacs interface improvements
950 ----------------------------
951 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
953 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
955 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
957 Display current thread subject in a header line.
959 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
961 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
963 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
964 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
965 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
966 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
967 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
968 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
969 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
971 Vim interface improvements
972 --------------------------
973 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
975 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
976 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
981 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
983 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
984 ========================
985 New command-line features
986 -------------------------
987 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
989 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
990 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
991 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
993 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
994 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
995 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
996 scripts. For example:
998 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
999 <operations-on> "$file"
1002 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1004 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1005 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1006 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1007 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1008 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1009 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1011 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1013 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1014 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1015 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1016 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1018 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1020 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1021 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1022 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1023 default rather than Bcc.
1025 New library features
1026 --------------------
1027 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1029 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1030 notmuch_query_t object.
1034 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1036 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1037 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1038 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1039 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1040 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1041 notmuch customize interface.
1043 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1045 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1046 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1047 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1048 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1050 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1052 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1053 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1054 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1055 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1057 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1059 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1060 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1061 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1062 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1063 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1064 notmuch customize interface.
1066 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1068 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1069 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1070 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1071 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1072 notmuch customize interface.
1074 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1076 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1077 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1078 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1079 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1082 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1084 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1085 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1086 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1089 New build-system features
1090 -------------------------
1091 Various portability fixes have been applied
1093 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1094 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1095 more portable than ever before.
1097 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1099 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1100 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1101 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1103 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1104 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1105 automatically run ldconfig.
1107 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1108 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1109 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1111 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1112 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1113 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1114 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1116 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1118 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1119 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1120 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1121 used in the resulting Makefile.
1123 New test-suite features
1124 -----------------------
1125 New modularization of test suite.
1127 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1128 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1129 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1130 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1131 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1132 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1133 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1134 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1136 New testing of emacs interface.
1138 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1139 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1140 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1141 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1142 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1143 database via the FCC setting.
1147 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1149 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1150 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1151 persistent error of the form:
1153 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1155 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1156 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1158 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1160 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1161 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1162 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1164 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1166 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1167 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1168 parsing the notmuch results).
1170 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1172 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1174 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1175 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1176 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1180 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1182 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1183 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1184 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1185 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1186 the emacs interface.
1188 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1190 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1191 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1192 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1194 Python-binding fixes
1195 --------------------
1196 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1198 Debian-specific fixes
1199 ---------------------
1200 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1202 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1203 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1204 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1207 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1208 ==========================
1211 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1213 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1214 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1215 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1216 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1218 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1220 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1221 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1222 want notmuch to crash.
1226 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1228 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1229 directory does not exist.
1233 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1235 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1236 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1238 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1239 ========================
1240 New command-line features
1241 -------------------------
1242 User-configurable tags for new messages
1244 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1245 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1246 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1247 to specify this value.
1249 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1251 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1252 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1253 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1255 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1257 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1258 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1260 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1262 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1263 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1264 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1265 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1266 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1269 Indication of author names that match a search
1271 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1272 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1273 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1274 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1275 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1276 messages in the thread are listed first.
1278 New: Python bindings
1279 --------------------
1280 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1281 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1282 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1283 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1285 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1286 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1287 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1290 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1291 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1292 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1294 Emacs interface improvements
1295 ----------------------------
1296 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1298 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1299 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1300 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1301 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1302 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1303 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1304 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1305 but without any of the disadvantages).
1307 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1308 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1309 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1312 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1313 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1314 recommend instead running something like:
1316 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1318 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1319 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1320 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1323 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1325 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1326 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1327 tweaked by the user.
1329 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1330 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1331 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1334 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1335 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1336 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1339 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1341 This support currently relies on an external program,
1342 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1343 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1344 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1345 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1346 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1349 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1350 notmuch) is available via:
1352 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1354 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1355 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1356 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1358 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1360 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1361 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1362 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1363 making this automatic in a future release.
1365 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1367 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1368 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1369 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1370 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1371 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1372 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1375 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1377 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1378 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1379 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1381 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1383 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1384 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1385 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1387 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1388 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1389 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1390 other representation.
1392 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1393 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1396 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1398 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1399 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1400 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1402 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1403 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1404 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1406 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1408 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1409 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1410 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1411 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1412 to display the search result.
1414 More flexible handling of header visibility
1416 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1417 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1418 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1419 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1420 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1421 with the 'h' keybinding.
1423 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1424 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1425 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1427 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1429 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1431 Customizable formatting of search results
1433 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1434 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1435 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1437 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1439 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1441 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1445 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1447 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1448 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1449 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1450 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1455 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1457 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1458 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1460 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1462 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1463 accept are now all accepted.
1467 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1469 Better display of output from failed tests.
1471 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1472 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1474 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1475 ========================
1476 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1477 detailed release notes this time!
1479 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1480 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1482 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1483 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1484 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1485 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1491 Better guessing of From: header.
1493 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1494 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1495 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1496 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1497 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1500 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1502 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1503 guaranteed to match all messages.
1505 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1507 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1508 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1509 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1510 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1511 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1514 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1517 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1518 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1519 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1520 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1524 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1526 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1527 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1528 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1529 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1531 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1533 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1535 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1536 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1537 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1539 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1541 Previously, the user might see:
1543 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1547 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1549 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1550 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1551 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1552 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1554 Emacs client features
1555 ---------------------
1556 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1558 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1559 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1560 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1561 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1562 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1564 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1567 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1568 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1569 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1570 search with the '*' binding.
1572 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1574 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1575 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1578 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1580 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1581 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1582 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1584 Build-system features
1585 ---------------------
1586 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1588 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1590 We include actual support for:
1592 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1594 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1596 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1597 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1599 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1600 separate "make install-emacs".
1602 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1604 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1605 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1606 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1608 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1611 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1612 ========================
1613 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1615 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1616 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1618 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1619 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1620 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1621 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1622 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1623 tags from messages in a thread.