1 Notmuch 0.17~rc2 (2013-xx-yy)
2 =============================
4 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
5 ---------------------------------------
7 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
8 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
9 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
10 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
11 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
12 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
13 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
17 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
18 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
20 Command-Line Interface
21 ----------------------
23 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
25 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
26 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
27 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
28 print for each message.
30 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
31 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
32 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
33 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
35 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
37 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
38 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
39 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
41 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
43 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
44 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
45 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
46 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
48 `notmuch compact` command
50 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
51 functionality through a more convenient interface than
52 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
53 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
54 move the compacted database into place.
59 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
61 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
62 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
63 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
64 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
65 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
70 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
72 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
73 search, show and tree mode itself)
75 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
78 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
79 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
81 Customising `notmuch-tree`
83 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
84 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
85 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
86 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
87 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
88 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
89 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
91 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
93 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
94 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
95 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
96 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
97 thread when the search was performed.
99 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
101 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
102 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
103 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
105 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
107 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
108 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
111 Built-in help improvements
113 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
114 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
115 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
117 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
119 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
120 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
121 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
123 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
125 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
126 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
128 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
130 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
131 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
132 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
133 to move some of them to the common keymap.
135 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
137 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
138 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
139 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
140 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
142 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
144 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
145 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
146 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
147 the body part of the message.
152 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
153 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
154 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
156 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
157 =========================
159 Command-Line Interface
160 ----------------------
162 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
164 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
165 folder and notmuch index.
167 `notmuch count --batch` option
169 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
170 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
172 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
174 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
175 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
176 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
179 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
181 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
182 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
183 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
184 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
185 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
188 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
190 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
191 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
193 Top level option to specify configuration file
195 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
196 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
198 Bash command-line completion
200 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
201 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
202 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
203 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
204 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
205 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
206 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
207 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
208 bash-completion package.
210 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
215 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
217 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
218 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
219 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
220 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
221 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
222 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
223 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
224 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
226 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
228 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
229 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
230 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
232 Key bindings for next/previous thread
234 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
235 previous thread in the search results.
237 Better handling of errors in search buffers
239 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
240 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
242 Faster search and show
244 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
245 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
246 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
247 threads should show faster.
251 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
252 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
253 in question was now removed from this release.
258 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
259 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
264 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
266 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
267 ===========================
272 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
274 Internal test framework changes
275 -------------------------------
277 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
280 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
281 ===========================
283 Internal test framework changes
284 -------------------------------
286 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
287 build failures in non-interactive environments.
289 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
290 =========================
295 Date range search support
297 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
298 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
299 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
300 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
301 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
304 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
306 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
307 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
308 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
309 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
310 but may be removed in a future release.
312 Command-Line Interface
313 ----------------------
315 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
317 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
318 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
320 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
322 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
323 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
324 officially deprecated.
326 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
328 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
329 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
330 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
332 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
334 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
335 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
338 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
339 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
342 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
344 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
345 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
346 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
348 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
350 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
351 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
352 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
354 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
356 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
357 output separated by null characters rather than newline
358 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
359 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
364 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
366 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
367 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
368 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
369 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
371 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
373 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
374 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
375 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
376 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
377 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
378 the behavior of this, see
379 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
380 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
382 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
383 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
384 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
386 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
388 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
389 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
392 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
394 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
395 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
396 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
397 simply displayed in place of the message.
399 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
401 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
402 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
404 Improved text/calendar content handling
406 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
407 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
408 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
409 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
411 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
413 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
414 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
415 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
416 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
418 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
420 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
421 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
422 for HTML email containing images.
424 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
426 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
428 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
430 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
433 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
435 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
436 the point where it was.
438 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
440 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
441 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
442 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
443 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
444 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
446 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
448 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
449 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
450 thread instead of the message id.
452 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
453 -----------------------------
455 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
456 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
457 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
458 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
459 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
460 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
461 further details and installation.
466 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
468 Internal test framework changes
469 -------------------------------
471 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
473 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
474 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
475 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
476 can result in buggy behavior.
478 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
479 =========================
484 Maildir tag synchronization
486 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
487 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
488 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
489 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
490 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
491 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
494 Command-Line Interface
495 ----------------------
497 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
498 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
499 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
500 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
501 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
507 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
509 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
511 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
512 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
513 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
515 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
517 It is now possible to embed newlines in
518 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
521 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
523 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
524 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
525 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
526 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
527 inside the result or message.
529 Search now uses the JSON format internally
531 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
532 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
534 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
535 user-specified formatting
537 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
538 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
539 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
540 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
541 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
543 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
544 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
546 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
547 ===========================
552 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
553 compilation error for this contrib package.
555 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
556 ===========================
561 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
563 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
564 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
565 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
566 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
568 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
569 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
572 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
573 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
574 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
575 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
578 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
580 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
583 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
584 =========================
586 Command-Line Interface
587 ----------------------
591 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
592 for a reply message and full information about the original message
593 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
594 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
596 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
597 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
598 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
599 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
603 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
604 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
606 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
607 tag in your query, for example:
609 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
611 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
612 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
614 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
615 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
617 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
619 Raw show format changes
621 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
622 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
623 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
624 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
625 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
626 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
627 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
628 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
630 Listing configuration items
632 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
638 Changes to tagging interface
640 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
641 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
642 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
643 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
644 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
645 for more information.
647 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
648 may need to update in custom configurations.
650 Reply improvement using the JSON format
652 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
653 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
654 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
655 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
658 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
659 -----------------------------
661 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
662 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
663 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
664 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
665 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
666 contrib/ from now on.
671 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
672 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
674 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
675 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
677 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
678 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
679 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
681 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
682 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
684 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
685 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
686 returning the new database object or directory object.
693 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
694 compatible with go 1.
696 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
697 =========================
699 Command-Line Interface
700 ----------------------
704 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
705 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
706 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
707 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
709 Mail store folder/file ignore
711 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
712 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
713 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
715 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
716 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
718 Unified help and manual pages
720 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
721 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
724 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
726 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
727 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
735 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
736 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
737 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
738 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
740 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
742 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
743 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
745 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
748 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
749 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
750 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
752 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
754 should be changed to:
756 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
758 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
760 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
761 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
763 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
765 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
766 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
767 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
768 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
769 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
770 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
774 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
775 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
776 of Mailing List Archives.
778 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
780 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
781 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
784 Show view archiving key binding changes
786 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
787 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
788 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
789 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
790 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
793 Support text/calendar MIME type
795 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
798 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
800 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
801 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
802 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
803 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
805 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
807 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
808 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
809 messages blue by default in the search view.
813 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
814 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
821 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
824 Python bindings changes
825 -----------------------
827 Python 3.2 compatibility
829 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
831 Added missing unicode conversions
833 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
834 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
835 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
840 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
842 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
843 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
844 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
845 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
846 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
848 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
849 ===========================
854 Fix error handling in python bindings
856 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
857 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
858 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
859 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
861 Quote MML tags in replies
863 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
864 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
865 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
866 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
867 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
868 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
869 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
870 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
872 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
873 =========================
875 Command-Line Interface
876 ----------------------
880 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
881 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
882 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
883 importing new messages into the database.
885 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
887 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
888 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
889 sometimes. This is now fixed.
894 Automatic tag query optimization
896 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
897 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
898 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
900 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
902 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
903 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
904 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
909 Reduction of memory leaks
911 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
912 and fixed in this release.
919 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
920 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
921 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
924 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
926 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
927 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
928 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
931 Improvements in saved search management
933 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
934 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
935 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
937 Hooks for notmuch-hello
939 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
940 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
941 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
943 New face for crypto parts headers
945 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
946 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
947 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
950 Use space as default thousands separator
952 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
953 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
954 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
956 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
959 New function notmuch-show-advance
961 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
962 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
963 be bound to SPC with:
965 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
967 Various performance improvements
972 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
973 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
976 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
977 ===========================
982 Fix crash in python bindings
984 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
985 for some, but not all users.
987 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
988 ===========================
993 Fix `--help` argument
995 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
996 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
997 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
999 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1000 =========================
1002 New build and testing features
1003 ------------------------------
1005 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1006 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1007 prerequisites is improved.
1009 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1011 New command-line features
1012 -------------------------
1014 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1016 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1017 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1020 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1022 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1023 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1024 favour of using stdout.
1026 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1028 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1029 limit the number of results shown.
1031 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1033 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1034 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1037 New emacs UI features
1038 ---------------------
1040 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1042 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1043 starting with "tag:".
1045 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1047 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1048 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1050 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1052 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1054 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1056 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1057 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1062 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1064 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1066 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1067 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1068 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1069 requires a database rebuild:
1071 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1072 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1074 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1076 New collection of add-on tools
1077 ------------------------------
1079 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1080 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1081 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1084 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1086 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1087 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1088 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1090 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1091 ========================
1093 New, general features
1094 ---------------------
1096 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1098 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1099 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1100 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1101 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1102 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1109 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1110 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1112 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1116 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1117 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1118 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1121 Python bindings changes
1122 -----------------------
1124 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1126 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1127 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1128 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1129 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1130 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1131 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1133 Ruby bindings changes
1134 ---------------------
1136 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1137 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1138 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1139 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1144 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1146 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1147 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1149 Reply formatting cleanup
1150 ------------------------
1152 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1153 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1155 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1156 ========================
1158 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1160 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1161 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1162 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1163 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1166 Improved Build system portability
1168 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1169 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1170 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1172 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1174 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1176 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1178 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1179 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1180 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1182 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1183 ========================
1185 Vim interface improvements
1186 --------------------------
1188 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1190 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1191 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1192 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1193 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1194 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1196 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1198 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1199 * fix compose temp file name
1201 Python Bindings changes
1202 -----------------------
1204 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1206 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1207 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1209 Build-System improvements
1210 -------------------------
1212 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1214 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1217 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1218 ==========================
1223 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1225 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1226 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1228 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1229 =======================
1231 New, general features
1232 ---------------------
1234 Folder-based searching
1236 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1237 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1238 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1242 For example, one might use things such as:
1248 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1249 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1251 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1252 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1253 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1254 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1256 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1257 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1258 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1261 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1262 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1264 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1266 Support for PGP/MIME
1268 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1269 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1270 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1272 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1274 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1275 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1277 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1278 notmuch will receive these tags.
1280 New command-line features
1281 -------------------------
1283 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1285 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1286 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1288 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1290 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1291 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1292 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1294 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1296 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1297 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1298 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1299 which parts a signature part applies).
1301 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1303 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1304 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1305 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1306 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1307 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1310 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1312 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1313 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1314 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1315 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1316 by translating it internally to the new call.
1318 Performance improvements
1319 ------------------------
1321 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1323 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1324 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1325 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1327 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1328 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1330 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1332 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1333 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1334 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1336 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1337 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1338 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1339 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1341 Faster initial indexing
1343 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1344 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1345 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1347 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1349 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1350 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1351 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1352 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1354 New emacs-interface features
1355 ----------------------------
1357 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1359 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1360 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1361 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1362 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1363 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1364 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1366 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1368 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1369 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1370 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1371 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1373 User-selectable From address
1375 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1376 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1377 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1378 will prompt for the from address to use.
1380 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1381 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1382 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1384 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1385 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1386 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1389 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1391 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1392 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1394 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1396 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1398 ----- Original Message -----
1400 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1401 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1402 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1403 citations work much like conventional citations.
1405 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1407 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1408 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1409 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1410 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1411 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1413 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1414 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1416 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1418 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1419 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1420 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1422 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1424 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1425 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1426 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1427 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1428 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1430 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1432 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1435 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1437 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1439 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1441 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1444 Vim interface improvements
1445 --------------------------
1447 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1449 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1450 * Implementing archive in show view
1451 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1452 * Add delete commands
1455 Bindings improvements
1456 ---------------------
1458 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1460 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1461 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1463 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1465 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1469 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1470 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1471 `list(Messages)` works now
1472 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1474 These allow, for example:
1476 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1478 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1480 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1486 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1488 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1491 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1493 New build-system features
1494 -------------------------
1496 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1498 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1499 the configure script from some other directory:
1506 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1508 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1509 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1510 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1511 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1512 manual invocation of configure.
1514 New test-suite feature
1515 ----------------------
1517 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1519 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1520 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1521 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1522 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1523 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1526 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1528 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1529 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1530 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1531 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1532 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1533 are updated to take advantage of this.
1535 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1537 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1538 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1539 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1540 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1546 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1548 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1549 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1550 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1552 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1554 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1556 to:user@elsewhere.com
1558 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1560 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1562 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1564 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1565 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1566 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1569 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1570 from the Received headers in some cases
1572 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1573 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1575 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1577 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1579 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1581 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1582 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1583 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1585 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1586 -------------------------
1588 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1590 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1591 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1592 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1594 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1596 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1597 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1598 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1601 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1603 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1604 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1605 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1606 fixed to avoid this bug.
1608 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1610 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1611 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1613 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1614 ========================
1616 New, general features
1617 ---------------------
1619 Maildir-flag synchronization
1621 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1622 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1631 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1633 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1634 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1635 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1636 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1638 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1639 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1640 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1641 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1644 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1646 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1647 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1648 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1650 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1651 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1653 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1654 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1656 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1657 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1658 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1660 New library features
1661 --------------------
1663 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1665 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1666 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1667 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1668 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1670 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1671 message with the new function:
1673 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1675 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1676 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1677 over all available filenames for a given message.
1679 New command-line features
1680 -------------------------
1682 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1684 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1685 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1686 access to the mail store itself.
1688 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1689 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1690 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1691 name of a script containing:
1693 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1695 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1696 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1702 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1704 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1706 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1708 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1709 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1710 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1711 now produces nothing).
1713 Emacs interface improvements
1714 ----------------------------
1716 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1718 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1720 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1722 Display current thread subject in a header line
1724 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1726 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1728 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1729 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1730 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1731 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1732 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1733 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1734 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1736 Vim interface improvements
1737 --------------------------
1739 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1741 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1742 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1748 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1750 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1751 ========================
1753 New command-line features
1754 -------------------------
1756 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1758 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1759 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1760 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1762 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1763 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1764 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1765 scripts. For example:
1767 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1768 <operations-on> "$file"
1771 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1773 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1774 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1775 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1776 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1777 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1778 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1780 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1782 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1783 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1784 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1785 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1787 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1789 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1790 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1791 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1792 default rather than Bcc.
1794 New library features
1795 --------------------
1797 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1799 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1800 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1805 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1807 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1808 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1809 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1810 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1811 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1812 notmuch customize interface.
1814 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1816 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1817 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1818 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1819 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1821 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1823 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1824 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1825 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1826 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1828 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1830 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1831 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1832 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1833 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1834 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1835 notmuch customize interface.
1837 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1839 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1840 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1841 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1842 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1843 notmuch customize interface.
1845 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1847 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1848 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1849 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1850 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1853 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1855 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1856 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1857 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1860 New build-system features
1861 -------------------------
1863 Various portability fixes have been applied
1865 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1866 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1867 more portable than ever before.
1869 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1871 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1872 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1873 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1875 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1876 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1877 automatically run ldconfig.
1879 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1880 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1881 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1883 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1884 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1885 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1886 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1888 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1890 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1891 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1892 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1893 used in the resulting Makefile.
1895 New test-suite features
1896 -----------------------
1898 New modularization of test suite
1900 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1901 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1902 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1903 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1904 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1905 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1906 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1907 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1909 New testing of emacs interface
1911 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1912 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1913 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1914 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1915 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1916 database via the FCC setting.
1921 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1923 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1924 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1925 persistent error of the form:
1927 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1929 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1930 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1932 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1934 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1935 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1936 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1938 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1940 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1941 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1942 parsing the notmuch results).
1944 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1946 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1949 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1950 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1951 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1956 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1958 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1959 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1960 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1961 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1962 the emacs interface.
1964 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1966 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1967 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1968 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1970 Python-binding fixes
1971 --------------------
1973 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1975 Debian-specific fixes
1976 ---------------------
1978 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1980 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1981 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1982 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1985 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1986 ==========================
1991 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1993 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1994 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1995 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1996 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1998 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2000 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2001 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2002 want notmuch to crash.
2007 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2009 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2010 directory does not exist
2015 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2017 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2018 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2020 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2021 ========================
2023 New command-line features
2024 -------------------------
2026 User-configurable tags for new messages
2028 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2029 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2030 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2031 to specify this value.
2033 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2035 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2036 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2037 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2039 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2041 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2042 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2044 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2046 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2047 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2048 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2049 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2050 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2053 Indication of author names that match a search
2055 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2056 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2057 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2058 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2059 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2060 messages in the thread are listed first.
2062 New: Python bindings
2063 --------------------
2065 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2066 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2067 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2068 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2070 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2071 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2072 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2075 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2076 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2077 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2079 Emacs interface improvements
2080 ----------------------------
2082 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2084 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2085 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2086 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2087 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2088 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2089 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2090 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2091 but without any of the disadvantages).
2093 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2094 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2095 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2098 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2099 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2100 instead running something like:
2102 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2104 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2105 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2106 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2109 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2111 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2112 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2113 tweaked by the user.
2115 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2116 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2117 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2120 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2121 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2122 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2125 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2127 This support currently relies on an external program,
2128 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2129 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2130 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2131 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2132 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2135 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2136 notmuch) is available via:
2138 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2140 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2141 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2142 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2144 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2146 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2147 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2148 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2149 making this automatic in a future release.
2151 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2153 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2154 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2155 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2156 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2157 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2158 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2161 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2163 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2164 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2165 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2167 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2169 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2170 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2171 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2173 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2174 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2175 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2176 other representation.
2178 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2179 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2182 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2184 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2185 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2186 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2188 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2189 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2190 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2192 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2194 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2195 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2196 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2197 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2198 to display the search result.
2200 More flexible handling of header visibility
2202 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2203 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2204 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2205 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2206 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2207 with the 'h' keybinding.
2209 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2210 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2211 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2213 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2215 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2217 Customizable formatting of search results
2219 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2220 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2221 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2223 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2225 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2227 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2232 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2234 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2235 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2236 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2237 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2243 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2245 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2246 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2248 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2250 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2251 accept are now all accepted.
2256 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2258 Better display of output from failed tests
2260 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2261 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2263 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2264 ========================
2266 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2267 detailed release notes this time!
2269 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2270 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2272 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2273 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2274 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2275 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2282 Better guessing of From: header
2284 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2285 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2286 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2287 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2288 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2291 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2293 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2294 guaranteed to match all messages.
2296 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2298 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2299 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2300 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2301 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2302 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2305 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2308 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2309 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2310 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2311 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2316 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2318 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2319 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2320 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2321 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2323 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2325 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2327 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2328 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2329 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2331 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2333 Previously, the user might see:
2335 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2339 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2341 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2342 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2343 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2344 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2346 Emacs client features
2347 ---------------------
2349 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2351 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2352 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2353 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2354 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2355 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2357 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2360 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2361 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2362 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2363 search with the '*' binding.
2365 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2367 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2368 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2371 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2373 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2374 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2375 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2377 Build-system features
2378 ---------------------
2380 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2382 Add support to configure for many standard options
2384 We include actual support for:
2386 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2388 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2390 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2391 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2393 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2394 separate "make install-emacs"
2396 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2398 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2399 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2400 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2402 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2405 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2406 ========================
2408 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2410 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2411 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2413 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2414 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2415 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2416 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2417 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2418 tags from messages in a thread.
2425 indent-tabs-mode: nil