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".
38 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
39 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
46 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
47 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
48 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
49 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
51 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
53 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
54 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
56 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
59 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
60 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
61 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
63 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
67 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
69 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
71 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
72 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
74 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
76 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
77 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
78 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
79 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
80 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
81 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
85 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
86 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
87 of Mailing List Archives.
94 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
97 Python bindings changes
98 -----------------------
100 Python 3.2 compatibility
102 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
104 Added missing unicode conversions
106 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
107 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
108 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
113 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
115 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
116 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
117 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
119 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
120 ===========================
125 Fix error handling in python bindings.
127 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
128 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
129 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
130 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
132 Quote MML tags in replies
134 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
135 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
136 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
137 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
138 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
139 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
140 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
141 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
143 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
144 =========================
146 Command-Line Interface
147 ----------------------
151 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
152 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
153 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
154 importing new messages into the database.
156 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
158 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
159 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
160 sometimes. This is now fixed.
165 Automatic tag query optimization
167 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
168 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
169 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
171 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
173 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
174 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
175 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
180 Reduction of memory leaks
182 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
183 and fixed in this release.
190 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
191 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
192 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
195 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
197 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
198 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
199 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
202 Improvements in saved search management
204 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
205 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
206 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
208 Hooks for notmuch-hello
210 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
211 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
212 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
214 New face for crypto parts headers
216 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
217 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
218 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
221 Use space as default thousands separator
223 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
224 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
225 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
227 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
228 buttonized id: links.
230 New function notmuch-show-advance
232 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
233 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
234 be bound to SPC with:
236 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
238 Various performance improvements.
243 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
244 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
247 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
248 ===========================
253 Fix crash in python bindings.
255 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
256 for some, but not all users.
258 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
259 ===========================
266 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
267 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
270 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
271 =========================
273 New build and testing features
274 ------------------------------
276 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
277 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
278 prerequisites is improved.
280 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
282 New command-line features
283 -------------------------
285 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
287 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
288 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
291 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
293 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
294 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
295 favour of using stdout.
297 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
299 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
300 the number of results shown.
302 Add "notmuch count --output" option
304 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
305 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
307 New emacs UI features
308 ---------------------
310 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
312 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
313 starting with "tag:".
315 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
317 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
318 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
320 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
322 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
324 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
326 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
327 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
332 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
334 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
336 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
337 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
338 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
339 requires a database rebuild:
341 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
342 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
344 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
346 New collection of add-on tools
347 ------------------------------
349 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
350 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
351 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
354 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
356 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
357 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
358 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
360 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
361 ========================
363 New, general features
364 ---------------------
366 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
368 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
369 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
370 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
371 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
372 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
379 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
380 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
382 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
386 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
387 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
388 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
391 Python bindings changes
392 -----------------------
394 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
396 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
397 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
398 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
399 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
400 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
401 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
403 Ruby bindings changes
404 ---------------------
406 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
407 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
408 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
409 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
414 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
416 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
417 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
419 Reply formatting cleanup
420 ------------------------
422 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
423 MIME parts are being suppressed.
425 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
426 ========================
428 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
430 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
431 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
432 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
433 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
436 Improved Build system portability
438 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
439 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
440 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
442 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
444 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
446 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
448 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
449 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
450 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
452 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
453 ========================
455 Vim interface improvements
456 --------------------------
458 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
460 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
461 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
462 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
463 * fix from list reformatting in search view
464 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
466 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
468 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
469 * fix compose temp file name
471 Python Bindings changes
472 -----------------------
474 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
476 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
477 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
479 Build-System improvements
480 ------------------------
482 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
484 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
487 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
488 ==========================
493 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
495 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
496 people running gcc 4.4.5.
498 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
499 =======================
500 New, general features
501 ---------------------
502 Folder-based searching
504 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
505 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
506 storage). The syntax is as follows:
510 For example, one might use things such as:
516 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
517 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
519 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
520 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
521 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
522 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
524 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
525 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
526 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
529 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
530 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
532 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
536 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
537 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
538 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
540 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
542 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
543 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
545 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
546 notmuch will receive these tags.
548 New command-line features
549 -------------------------
550 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
552 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
553 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
555 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
557 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
558 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
559 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
561 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
563 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
564 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
565 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
566 which parts a signature part applies).
568 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
570 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
571 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
572 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
573 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
574 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
577 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
579 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
580 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
581 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
582 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
583 by translating it internally to the new call.
585 Performance improvements
586 ------------------------
587 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
589 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
590 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
591 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
593 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
594 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
596 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
598 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
599 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
600 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
602 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
603 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
604 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
605 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
607 Faster initial indexing
609 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
610 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
611 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
613 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
615 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
616 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
617 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
618 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
620 New emacs-interface features
621 ----------------------------
623 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
625 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
626 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
627 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
628 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
629 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
630 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
632 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
634 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
635 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
636 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
637 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
639 User-selectable From address
641 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
642 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
643 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
644 will prompt for the from address to use.
646 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
647 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
648 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
650 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
651 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
652 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
655 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
657 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
658 its parent, the subject is not shown.
660 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
662 When a message contains a line looking something like:
664 ----- Original Message -----
666 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
667 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
668 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
669 citations work much like conventional citations.
671 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
673 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
674 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
675 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
676 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
677 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
679 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
680 Notmuch After Tag Hook
682 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
684 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
685 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
686 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
688 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
690 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
691 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
692 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
693 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
694 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
696 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
698 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
701 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
703 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
705 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
706 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
708 Vim interface improvements
709 --------------------------
710 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
712 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
713 * Implementing archive in show view
714 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
715 * Add delete commands
718 Bindings improvements
719 ---------------------
720 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
722 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
723 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
725 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
726 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
729 - Message().get_filenames(),
730 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
731 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
733 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
734 These allow, for example:
737 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
739 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
744 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
745 Use len(list(Messages())) or
746 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
748 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
750 New build-system features
751 -------------------------
752 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
754 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
755 the configure script from some other directory:
762 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
764 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
765 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
766 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
767 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
768 manual invocation of configure.
770 New test-suite feature
771 ----------------------
772 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
774 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
775 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
776 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
777 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
778 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
781 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
783 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
784 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
785 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
786 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
787 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
788 are updated to take advantage of this.
790 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
792 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
793 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
794 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
795 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
800 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
802 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
803 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
804 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
806 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
808 This fixed a bug where a search for:
810 to:user@elsewhere.com
812 would incorrectly match a message sent:
814 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
816 Fix --output=json when search has no results
818 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
819 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
820 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
823 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
824 from the Received headers in some cases.
826 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
827 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
829 Cleaned up several memory leaks
831 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
833 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
835 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
836 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
837 interface and were never intended to be exported.
839 Emacs-interface bug fixes
840 -------------------------
841 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
843 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
844 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
845 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
847 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
849 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
850 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
851 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
854 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
856 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
857 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
858 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
859 fixed to avoid this bug.
861 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
863 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
864 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
866 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
867 ========================
868 New, general features
869 ---------------------
870 Maildir-flag synchronization
872 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
873 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
882 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
884 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
885 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
886 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
887 renamed with an 'R' flag).
889 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
890 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
891 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
892 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
895 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
897 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
898 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
899 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
901 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
902 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
904 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
905 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
907 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
908 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
909 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
913 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
915 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
916 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
917 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
918 notmuch_message_get_filename).
920 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
921 message with the new function:
923 notmuch_message_get_filenames
925 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
926 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
927 all available filenames for a given message.
929 New command-line features
930 -------------------------
931 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
933 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
934 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
935 access to the mail store itself.
937 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
938 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
939 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
940 name of a script containing:
942 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
944 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
945 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
950 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
952 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
954 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
956 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
957 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
958 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
959 now produces nothing).
961 Emacs interface improvements
962 ----------------------------
963 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
965 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
967 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
969 Display current thread subject in a header line.
971 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
973 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
975 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
976 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
977 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
978 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
979 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
980 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
981 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
983 Vim interface improvements
984 --------------------------
985 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
987 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
988 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
993 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
995 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
996 ========================
997 New command-line features
998 -------------------------
999 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1001 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1002 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1003 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1005 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1006 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1007 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1008 scripts. For example:
1010 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1011 <operations-on> "$file"
1014 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1016 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1017 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1018 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1019 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1020 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1021 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1023 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1025 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1026 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1027 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1028 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1030 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1032 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1033 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1034 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1035 default rather than Bcc.
1037 New library features
1038 --------------------
1039 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1041 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1042 notmuch_query_t object.
1046 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1048 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1049 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1050 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1051 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1052 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1053 notmuch customize interface.
1055 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1057 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1058 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1059 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1060 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1062 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1064 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1065 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1066 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1067 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1069 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1071 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1072 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1073 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1074 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1075 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1076 notmuch customize interface.
1078 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1080 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1081 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1082 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1083 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1084 notmuch customize interface.
1086 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1088 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1089 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1090 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1091 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1094 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1096 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1097 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1098 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1101 New build-system features
1102 -------------------------
1103 Various portability fixes have been applied
1105 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1106 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1107 more portable than ever before.
1109 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1111 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1112 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1113 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1115 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1116 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1117 automatically run ldconfig.
1119 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1120 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1121 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1123 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1124 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1125 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1126 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1128 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1130 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1131 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1132 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1133 used in the resulting Makefile.
1135 New test-suite features
1136 -----------------------
1137 New modularization of test suite.
1139 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1140 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1141 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1142 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1143 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1144 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1145 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1146 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1148 New testing of emacs interface.
1150 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1151 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1152 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1153 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1154 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1155 database via the FCC setting.
1159 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1161 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1162 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1163 persistent error of the form:
1165 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1167 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1168 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1170 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1172 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1173 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1174 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1176 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1178 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1179 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1180 parsing the notmuch results).
1182 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1184 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1186 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1187 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1188 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1192 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1194 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1195 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1196 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1197 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1198 the emacs interface.
1200 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1202 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1203 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1204 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1206 Python-binding fixes
1207 --------------------
1208 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1210 Debian-specific fixes
1211 ---------------------
1212 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1214 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1215 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1216 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1219 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1220 ==========================
1223 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1225 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1226 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1227 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1228 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1230 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1232 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1233 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1234 want notmuch to crash.
1238 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1240 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1241 directory does not exist.
1245 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1247 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1248 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1250 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1251 ========================
1252 New command-line features
1253 -------------------------
1254 User-configurable tags for new messages
1256 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1257 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1258 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1259 to specify this value.
1261 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1263 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1264 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1265 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1267 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1269 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1270 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1272 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1274 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1275 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1276 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1277 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1278 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1281 Indication of author names that match a search
1283 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1284 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1285 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1286 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1287 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1288 messages in the thread are listed first.
1290 New: Python bindings
1291 --------------------
1292 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1293 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1294 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1295 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1297 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1298 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1299 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1302 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1303 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1304 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1306 Emacs interface improvements
1307 ----------------------------
1308 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1310 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1311 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1312 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1313 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1314 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1315 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1316 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1317 but without any of the disadvantages).
1319 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1320 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1321 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1324 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1325 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1326 recommend instead running something like:
1328 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1330 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1331 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1332 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1335 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1337 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1338 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1339 tweaked by the user.
1341 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1342 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1343 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1346 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1347 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1348 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1351 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1353 This support currently relies on an external program,
1354 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1355 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1356 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1357 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1358 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1361 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1362 notmuch) is available via:
1364 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1366 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1367 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1368 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1370 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1372 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1373 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1374 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1375 making this automatic in a future release.
1377 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1379 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1380 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1381 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1382 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1383 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1384 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1387 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1389 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1390 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1391 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1393 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1395 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1396 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1397 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1399 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1400 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1401 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1402 other representation.
1404 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1405 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1408 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1410 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1411 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1412 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1414 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1415 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1416 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1418 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1420 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1421 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1422 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1423 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1424 to display the search result.
1426 More flexible handling of header visibility
1428 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1429 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1430 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1431 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1432 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1433 with the 'h' keybinding.
1435 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1436 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1437 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1439 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1441 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1443 Customizable formatting of search results
1445 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1446 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1447 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1449 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1451 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1453 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1457 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1459 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1460 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1461 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1462 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1467 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1469 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1470 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1472 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1474 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1475 accept are now all accepted.
1479 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1481 Better display of output from failed tests.
1483 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1484 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1486 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1487 ========================
1488 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1489 detailed release notes this time!
1491 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1492 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1494 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1495 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1496 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1497 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1503 Better guessing of From: header.
1505 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1506 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1507 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1508 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1509 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1512 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1514 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1515 guaranteed to match all messages.
1517 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1519 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1520 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1521 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1522 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1523 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1526 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1529 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1530 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1531 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1532 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1536 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1538 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1539 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1540 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1541 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1543 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1545 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1547 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1548 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1549 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1551 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1553 Previously, the user might see:
1555 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1559 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1561 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1562 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1563 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1564 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1566 Emacs client features
1567 ---------------------
1568 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1570 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1571 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1572 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1573 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1574 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1576 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1579 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1580 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1581 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1582 search with the '*' binding.
1584 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1586 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1587 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1590 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1592 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1593 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1594 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1596 Build-system features
1597 ---------------------
1598 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1600 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1602 We include actual support for:
1604 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1606 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1608 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1609 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1611 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1612 separate "make install-emacs".
1614 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1616 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1617 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1618 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1620 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1623 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1624 ========================
1625 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1627 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1628 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1630 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1631 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1632 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1633 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1634 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1635 tags from messages in a thread.