1 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2 ===========================
7 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
9 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
10 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
11 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
12 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
14 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
15 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
18 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
19 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
20 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
21 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
24 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
26 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
29 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
30 =========================
32 Command-Line Interface
33 ----------------------
37 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
38 for a reply message and full information about the original message
39 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
40 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
42 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
43 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
44 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
45 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
49 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
50 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
52 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
53 tag in your query, for example:
55 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
57 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
58 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
60 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
61 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
63 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
65 Raw show format changes
67 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
68 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
69 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
70 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
71 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
72 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
73 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
74 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
76 Listing configuration items
78 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
84 Changes to tagging interface
86 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
87 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
88 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
89 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
90 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
93 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
94 may need to update in custom configurations.
96 Reply improvement using the JSON format
98 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
99 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
100 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
101 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
104 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
105 -----------------------------
107 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
108 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
109 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
110 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
111 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
112 contrib/ from now on.
117 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
118 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
120 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
121 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
123 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
124 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
125 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
127 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
128 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
130 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
131 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
132 returning the new database object or directory object.
139 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
140 compatible with go 1.
142 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
143 =========================
145 Command-Line Interface
146 ----------------------
150 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
151 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
152 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
153 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
155 Mail store folder/file ignore
157 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
158 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
159 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
161 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
162 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
164 Unified help and manual pages
166 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
167 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
170 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
172 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
173 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
181 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
182 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
183 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
184 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
186 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
188 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
189 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
191 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
194 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
195 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
196 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
198 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
200 should be changed to:
202 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
204 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
206 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
207 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
209 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
211 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
212 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
213 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
214 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
215 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
216 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
220 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
221 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
222 of Mailing List Archives.
224 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
226 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
227 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
230 Show view archiving key binding changes
232 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
233 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
234 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
235 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
236 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
239 Support text/calendar MIME type
241 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
244 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
246 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
247 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
248 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
249 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
251 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
253 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
254 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
255 messages blue by default in the search view.
259 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
260 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
267 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
270 Python bindings changes
271 -----------------------
273 Python 3.2 compatibility
275 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
277 Added missing unicode conversions
279 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
280 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
281 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
286 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
288 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
289 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
290 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
291 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
292 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
294 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
295 ===========================
300 Fix error handling in python bindings
302 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
303 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
304 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
305 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
307 Quote MML tags in replies
309 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
310 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
311 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
312 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
313 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
314 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
315 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
316 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
318 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
319 =========================
321 Command-Line Interface
322 ----------------------
326 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
327 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
328 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
329 importing new messages into the database.
331 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
333 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
334 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
335 sometimes. This is now fixed.
340 Automatic tag query optimization
342 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
343 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
344 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
346 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
348 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
349 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
350 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
355 Reduction of memory leaks
357 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
358 and fixed in this release.
365 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
366 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
367 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
370 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
372 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
373 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
374 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
377 Improvements in saved search management
379 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
380 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
381 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
383 Hooks for notmuch-hello
385 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
386 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
387 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
389 New face for crypto parts headers
391 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
392 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
393 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
396 Use space as default thousands separator
398 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
399 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
400 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
402 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
405 New function notmuch-show-advance
407 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
408 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
409 be bound to SPC with:
411 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
413 Various performance improvements
418 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
419 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
422 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
423 ===========================
428 Fix crash in python bindings
430 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
431 for some, but not all users.
433 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
434 ===========================
439 Fix `--help` argument
441 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
442 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
443 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
445 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
446 =========================
448 New build and testing features
449 ------------------------------
451 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
452 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
453 prerequisites is improved.
455 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
457 New command-line features
458 -------------------------
460 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
462 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
463 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
466 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
468 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
469 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
470 favour of using stdout.
472 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
474 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
475 limit the number of results shown.
477 Add `notmuch count --output` option
479 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
480 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
483 New emacs UI features
484 ---------------------
486 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
488 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
489 starting with "tag:".
491 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
493 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
494 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
496 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
498 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
500 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
502 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
503 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
508 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
510 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
512 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
513 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
514 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
515 requires a database rebuild:
517 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
518 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
520 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
522 New collection of add-on tools
523 ------------------------------
525 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
526 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
527 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
530 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
532 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
533 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
534 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
536 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
537 ========================
539 New, general features
540 ---------------------
542 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
544 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
545 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
546 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
547 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
548 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
555 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
556 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
558 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
562 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
563 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
564 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
567 Python bindings changes
568 -----------------------
570 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
572 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
573 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
574 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
575 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
576 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
577 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
579 Ruby bindings changes
580 ---------------------
582 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
583 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
584 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
585 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
590 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
592 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
593 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
595 Reply formatting cleanup
596 ------------------------
598 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
599 MIME parts are being suppressed.
601 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
602 ========================
604 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
606 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
607 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
608 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
609 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
612 Improved Build system portability
614 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
615 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
616 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
618 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
620 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
622 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
624 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
625 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
626 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
628 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
629 ========================
631 Vim interface improvements
632 --------------------------
634 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
636 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
637 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
638 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
639 * fix from list reformatting in search view
640 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
642 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
644 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
645 * fix compose temp file name
647 Python Bindings changes
648 -----------------------
650 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
652 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
653 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
655 Build-System improvements
656 -------------------------
658 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
660 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
663 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
664 ==========================
669 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
671 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
672 people running gcc 4.4.5.
674 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
675 =======================
677 New, general features
678 ---------------------
680 Folder-based searching
682 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
683 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
684 storage). The syntax is as follows:
688 For example, one might use things such as:
694 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
695 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
697 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
698 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
699 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
700 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
702 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
703 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
704 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
707 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
708 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
710 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
714 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
715 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
716 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
718 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
720 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
721 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
723 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
724 notmuch will receive these tags.
726 New command-line features
727 -------------------------
729 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
731 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
732 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
734 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
736 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
737 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
738 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
740 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
742 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
743 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
744 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
745 which parts a signature part applies).
747 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
749 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
750 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
751 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
752 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
753 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
756 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
758 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
759 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
760 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
761 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
762 by translating it internally to the new call.
764 Performance improvements
765 ------------------------
767 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
769 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
770 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
771 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
773 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
774 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
776 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
778 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
779 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
780 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
782 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
783 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
784 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
785 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
787 Faster initial indexing
789 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
790 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
791 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
793 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
795 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
796 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
797 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
798 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
800 New emacs-interface features
801 ----------------------------
803 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
805 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
806 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
807 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
808 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
809 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
810 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
812 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
814 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
815 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
816 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
817 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
819 User-selectable From address
821 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
822 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
823 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
824 will prompt for the from address to use.
826 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
827 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
828 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
830 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
831 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
832 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
835 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
837 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
838 its parent, the subject is not shown.
840 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
842 When a message contains a line looking something like:
844 ----- Original Message -----
846 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
847 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
848 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
849 citations work much like conventional citations.
851 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
853 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
854 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
855 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
856 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
857 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
859 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
860 Notmuch After Tag Hook
862 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
864 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
865 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
866 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
868 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
870 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
871 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
872 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
873 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
874 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
876 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
878 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
881 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
883 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
885 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
887 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
890 Vim interface improvements
891 --------------------------
893 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
895 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
896 * Implementing archive in show view
897 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
898 * Add delete commands
901 Bindings improvements
902 ---------------------
904 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
906 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
907 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
909 Python bindings have been updated and extended
911 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
915 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
916 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
917 `list(Messages)` works now
918 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
920 These allow, for example:
924 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
926 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
932 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
934 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
937 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
939 New build-system features
940 -------------------------
942 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
944 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
945 the configure script from some other directory:
952 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
954 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
955 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
956 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
957 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
958 manual invocation of configure.
960 New test-suite feature
961 ----------------------
963 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
965 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
966 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
967 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
968 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
969 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
972 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
974 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
975 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
976 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
977 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
978 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
979 are updated to take advantage of this.
981 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
983 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
984 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
985 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
986 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
992 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
994 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
995 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
996 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
998 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1000 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1002 to:user@elsewhere.com
1004 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1006 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1008 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1010 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1011 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1012 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1015 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1016 from the Received headers in some cases
1018 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1019 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1021 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1023 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1025 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1027 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1028 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1029 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1031 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1032 -------------------------
1034 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1036 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1037 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1038 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1040 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1042 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1043 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1044 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1047 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1049 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1050 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1051 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1052 fixed to avoid this bug.
1054 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1056 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1057 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1059 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1060 ========================
1062 New, general features
1063 ---------------------
1065 Maildir-flag synchronization
1067 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1068 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1077 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1079 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1080 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1081 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1082 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1084 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1085 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1086 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1087 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1090 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1092 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1093 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1094 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1096 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1097 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1099 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1100 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1102 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1103 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1104 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1106 New library features
1107 --------------------
1109 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1111 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1112 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1113 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1114 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1116 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1117 message with the new function:
1119 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1121 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1122 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1123 over all available filenames for a given message.
1125 New command-line features
1126 -------------------------
1128 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1130 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1131 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1132 access to the mail store itself.
1134 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1135 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1136 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1137 name of a script containing:
1139 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1141 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1142 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1148 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1150 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1152 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1154 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1155 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1156 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1157 now produces nothing).
1159 Emacs interface improvements
1160 ----------------------------
1162 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1164 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1166 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1168 Display current thread subject in a header line
1170 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1172 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1174 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1175 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1176 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1177 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1178 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1179 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1180 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1182 Vim interface improvements
1183 --------------------------
1185 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1187 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1188 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1194 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1196 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1197 ========================
1199 New command-line features
1200 -------------------------
1202 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1204 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1205 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1206 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1208 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1209 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1210 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1211 scripts. For example:
1213 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1214 <operations-on> "$file"
1217 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1219 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1220 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1221 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1222 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1223 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1224 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1226 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1228 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1229 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1230 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1231 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1233 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1235 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1236 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1237 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1238 default rather than Bcc.
1240 New library features
1241 --------------------
1243 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1245 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1246 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1251 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1253 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1254 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1255 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1256 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1257 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1258 notmuch customize interface.
1260 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1262 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1263 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1264 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1265 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1267 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1269 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1270 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1271 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1272 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1274 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1276 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1277 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1278 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1279 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1280 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1281 notmuch customize interface.
1283 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1285 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1286 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1287 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1288 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1289 notmuch customize interface.
1291 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1293 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1294 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1295 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1296 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1299 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1301 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1302 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1303 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1306 New build-system features
1307 -------------------------
1309 Various portability fixes have been applied
1311 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1312 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1313 more portable than ever before.
1315 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1317 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1318 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1319 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1321 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1322 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1323 automatically run ldconfig.
1325 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1326 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1327 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1329 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1330 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1331 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1332 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1334 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1336 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1337 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1338 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1339 used in the resulting Makefile.
1341 New test-suite features
1342 -----------------------
1344 New modularization of test suite
1346 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1347 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1348 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1349 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1350 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1351 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1352 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1353 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1355 New testing of emacs interface
1357 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1358 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1359 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1360 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1361 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1362 database via the FCC setting.
1367 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1369 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1370 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1371 persistent error of the form:
1373 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1375 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1376 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1378 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1380 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1381 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1382 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1384 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1386 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1387 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1388 parsing the notmuch results).
1390 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1392 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1395 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1396 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1397 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1402 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1404 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1405 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1406 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1407 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1408 the emacs interface.
1410 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1412 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1413 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1414 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1416 Python-binding fixes
1417 --------------------
1419 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1421 Debian-specific fixes
1422 ---------------------
1424 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1426 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1427 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1428 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1431 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1432 ==========================
1437 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1439 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1440 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1441 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1442 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1444 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1446 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1447 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1448 want notmuch to crash.
1453 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1455 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1456 directory does not exist
1461 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1463 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1464 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1466 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1467 ========================
1469 New command-line features
1470 -------------------------
1472 User-configurable tags for new messages
1474 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1475 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1476 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1477 to specify this value.
1479 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1481 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1482 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1483 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1485 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1487 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1488 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1490 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1492 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1493 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1494 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1495 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1496 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1499 Indication of author names that match a search
1501 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1502 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1503 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1504 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1505 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1506 messages in the thread are listed first.
1508 New: Python bindings
1509 --------------------
1511 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1512 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1513 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1514 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1516 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1517 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1518 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1521 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1522 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1523 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1525 Emacs interface improvements
1526 ----------------------------
1528 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1530 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1531 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1532 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1533 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1534 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1535 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1536 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1537 but without any of the disadvantages).
1539 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1540 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1541 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1544 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1545 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1546 instead running something like:
1548 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1550 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1551 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1552 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1555 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1557 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1558 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1559 tweaked by the user.
1561 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1562 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1563 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1566 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1567 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1568 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1571 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1573 This support currently relies on an external program,
1574 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1575 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1576 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1577 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1578 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1581 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1582 notmuch) is available via:
1584 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1586 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1587 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1588 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1590 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1592 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1593 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1594 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1595 making this automatic in a future release.
1597 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1599 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1600 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1601 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1602 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1603 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1604 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1607 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1609 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1610 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1611 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1613 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1615 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1616 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1617 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1619 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1620 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1621 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1622 other representation.
1624 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1625 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1628 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1630 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1631 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1632 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1634 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1635 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1636 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1638 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1640 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1641 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1642 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1643 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1644 to display the search result.
1646 More flexible handling of header visibility
1648 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1649 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1650 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1651 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1652 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1653 with the 'h' keybinding.
1655 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1656 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1657 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1659 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1661 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1663 Customizable formatting of search results
1665 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1666 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1667 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1669 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1671 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1673 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1678 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1680 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1681 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1682 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1683 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1689 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1691 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1692 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1694 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1696 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1697 accept are now all accepted.
1702 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1704 Better display of output from failed tests
1706 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1707 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1709 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1710 ========================
1712 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1713 detailed release notes this time!
1715 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1716 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1718 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1719 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1720 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1721 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1728 Better guessing of From: header
1730 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1731 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1732 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1733 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1734 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1737 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1739 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1740 guaranteed to match all messages.
1742 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1744 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1745 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1746 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1747 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1748 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1751 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1754 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1755 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1756 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1757 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1762 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1764 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1765 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1766 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1767 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1769 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1771 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1773 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1774 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1775 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1777 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1779 Previously, the user might see:
1781 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1785 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1787 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1788 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1789 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1790 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1792 Emacs client features
1793 ---------------------
1795 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1797 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1798 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1799 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1800 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1801 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1803 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1806 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1807 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1808 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1809 search with the '*' binding.
1811 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1813 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1814 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1817 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1819 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1820 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1821 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1823 Build-system features
1824 ---------------------
1826 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1828 Add support to configure for many standard options
1830 We include actual support for:
1832 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1834 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1836 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1837 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1839 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1840 separate "make install-emacs"
1842 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1844 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1845 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1846 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1848 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1851 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1852 ========================
1854 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1856 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1857 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1859 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1860 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1861 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1862 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1863 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1864 tags from messages in a thread.
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