1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
23 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
25 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
26 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
34 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
35 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
36 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
37 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
39 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
41 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
42 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
44 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
47 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
48 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
49 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
51 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
55 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
57 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
59 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
60 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
62 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
64 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
65 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
66 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
67 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
68 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
69 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
73 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
74 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
75 of Mailing List Archives.
77 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
79 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
80 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
83 Show view archiving key binding changes
85 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
86 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
87 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
88 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
89 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
92 Support text/calendar MIME type
94 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
97 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
99 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
100 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
101 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
102 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
104 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
106 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
107 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
108 messages blue by default in the search view.
115 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
118 Python bindings changes
119 -----------------------
121 Python 3.2 compatibility
123 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
125 Added missing unicode conversions
127 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
128 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
129 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
134 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
136 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
137 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
138 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
140 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
141 ===========================
146 Fix error handling in python bindings.
148 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
149 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
150 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
151 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
153 Quote MML tags in replies
155 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
156 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
157 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
158 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
159 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
160 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
161 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
162 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
164 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
165 =========================
167 Command-Line Interface
168 ----------------------
172 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
173 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
174 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
175 importing new messages into the database.
177 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
179 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
180 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
181 sometimes. This is now fixed.
186 Automatic tag query optimization
188 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
189 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
190 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
192 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
194 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
195 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
196 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
201 Reduction of memory leaks
203 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
204 and fixed in this release.
211 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
212 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
213 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
216 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
218 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
219 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
220 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
223 Improvements in saved search management
225 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
226 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
227 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
229 Hooks for notmuch-hello
231 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
232 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
233 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
235 New face for crypto parts headers
237 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
238 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
239 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
242 Use space as default thousands separator
244 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
245 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
246 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
248 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
249 buttonized id: links.
251 New function notmuch-show-advance
253 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
254 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
255 be bound to SPC with:
257 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
259 Various performance improvements.
264 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
265 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
268 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
269 ===========================
274 Fix crash in python bindings.
276 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
277 for some, but not all users.
279 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
280 ===========================
287 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
288 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
291 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
292 =========================
294 New build and testing features
295 ------------------------------
297 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
298 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
299 prerequisites is improved.
301 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
303 New command-line features
304 -------------------------
306 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
308 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
309 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
312 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
314 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
315 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
316 favour of using stdout.
318 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
320 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
321 the number of results shown.
323 Add "notmuch count --output" option
325 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
326 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
328 New emacs UI features
329 ---------------------
331 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
333 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
334 starting with "tag:".
336 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
338 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
339 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
341 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
343 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
345 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
347 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
348 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
353 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
355 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
357 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
358 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
359 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
360 requires a database rebuild:
362 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
363 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
365 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
367 New collection of add-on tools
368 ------------------------------
370 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
371 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
372 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
375 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
377 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
378 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
379 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
381 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
382 ========================
384 New, general features
385 ---------------------
387 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
389 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
390 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
391 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
392 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
393 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
400 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
401 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
403 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
407 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
408 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
409 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
412 Python bindings changes
413 -----------------------
415 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
417 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
418 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
419 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
420 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
421 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
422 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
424 Ruby bindings changes
425 ---------------------
427 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
428 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
429 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
430 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
435 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
437 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
438 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
440 Reply formatting cleanup
441 ------------------------
443 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
444 MIME parts are being suppressed.
446 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
447 ========================
449 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
451 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
452 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
453 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
454 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
457 Improved Build system portability
459 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
460 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
461 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
463 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
465 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
467 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
469 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
470 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
471 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
473 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
474 ========================
476 Vim interface improvements
477 --------------------------
479 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
481 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
482 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
483 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
484 * fix from list reformatting in search view
485 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
487 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
489 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
490 * fix compose temp file name
492 Python Bindings changes
493 -----------------------
495 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
497 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
498 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
500 Build-System improvements
501 ------------------------
503 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
505 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
508 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
509 ==========================
514 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
516 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
517 people running gcc 4.4.5.
519 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
520 =======================
521 New, general features
522 ---------------------
523 Folder-based searching
525 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
526 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
527 storage). The syntax is as follows:
531 For example, one might use things such as:
537 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
538 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
540 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
541 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
542 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
543 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
545 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
546 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
547 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
550 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
551 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
553 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
557 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
558 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
559 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
561 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
563 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
564 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
566 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
567 notmuch will receive these tags.
569 New command-line features
570 -------------------------
571 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
573 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
574 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
576 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
578 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
579 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
580 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
582 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
584 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
585 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
586 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
587 which parts a signature part applies).
589 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
591 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
592 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
593 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
594 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
595 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
598 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
600 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
601 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
602 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
603 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
604 by translating it internally to the new call.
606 Performance improvements
607 ------------------------
608 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
610 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
611 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
612 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
614 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
615 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
617 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
619 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
620 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
621 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
623 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
624 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
625 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
626 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
628 Faster initial indexing
630 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
631 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
632 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
634 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
636 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
637 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
638 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
639 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
641 New emacs-interface features
642 ----------------------------
644 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
646 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
647 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
648 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
649 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
650 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
651 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
653 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
655 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
656 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
657 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
658 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
660 User-selectable From address
662 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
663 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
664 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
665 will prompt for the from address to use.
667 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
668 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
669 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
671 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
672 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
673 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
676 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
678 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
679 its parent, the subject is not shown.
681 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
683 When a message contains a line looking something like:
685 ----- Original Message -----
687 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
688 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
689 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
690 citations work much like conventional citations.
692 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
694 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
695 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
696 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
697 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
698 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
700 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
701 Notmuch After Tag Hook
703 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
705 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
706 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
707 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
709 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
711 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
712 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
713 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
714 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
715 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
717 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
719 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
722 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
724 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
726 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
727 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
729 Vim interface improvements
730 --------------------------
731 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
733 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
734 * Implementing archive in show view
735 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
736 * Add delete commands
739 Bindings improvements
740 ---------------------
741 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
743 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
744 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
746 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
747 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
750 - Message().get_filenames(),
751 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
752 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
754 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
755 These allow, for example:
758 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
760 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
765 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
766 Use len(list(Messages())) or
767 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
769 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
771 New build-system features
772 -------------------------
773 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
775 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
776 the configure script from some other directory:
783 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
785 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
786 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
787 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
788 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
789 manual invocation of configure.
791 New test-suite feature
792 ----------------------
793 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
795 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
796 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
797 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
798 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
799 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
802 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
804 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
805 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
806 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
807 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
808 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
809 are updated to take advantage of this.
811 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
813 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
814 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
815 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
816 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
821 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
823 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
824 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
825 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
827 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
829 This fixed a bug where a search for:
831 to:user@elsewhere.com
833 would incorrectly match a message sent:
835 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
837 Fix --output=json when search has no results
839 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
840 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
841 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
844 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
845 from the Received headers in some cases.
847 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
848 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
850 Cleaned up several memory leaks
852 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
854 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
856 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
857 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
858 interface and were never intended to be exported.
860 Emacs-interface bug fixes
861 -------------------------
862 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
864 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
865 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
866 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
868 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
870 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
871 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
872 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
875 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
877 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
878 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
879 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
880 fixed to avoid this bug.
882 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
884 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
885 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
887 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
888 ========================
889 New, general features
890 ---------------------
891 Maildir-flag synchronization
893 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
894 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
903 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
905 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
906 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
907 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
908 renamed with an 'R' flag).
910 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
911 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
912 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
913 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
916 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
918 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
919 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
920 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
922 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
923 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
925 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
926 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
928 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
929 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
930 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
934 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
936 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
937 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
938 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
939 notmuch_message_get_filename).
941 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
942 message with the new function:
944 notmuch_message_get_filenames
946 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
947 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
948 all available filenames for a given message.
950 New command-line features
951 -------------------------
952 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
954 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
955 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
956 access to the mail store itself.
958 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
959 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
960 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
961 name of a script containing:
963 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
965 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
966 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
971 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
973 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
975 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
977 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
978 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
979 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
980 now produces nothing).
982 Emacs interface improvements
983 ----------------------------
984 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
986 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
988 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
990 Display current thread subject in a header line.
992 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
994 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
996 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
997 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
998 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
999 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1000 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1001 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1002 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1004 Vim interface improvements
1005 --------------------------
1006 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1008 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1009 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1014 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1016 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1017 ========================
1018 New command-line features
1019 -------------------------
1020 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1022 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1023 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1024 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1026 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1027 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1028 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1029 scripts. For example:
1031 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1032 <operations-on> "$file"
1035 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1037 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1038 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1039 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1040 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1041 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1042 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1044 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1046 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1047 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1048 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1049 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1051 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1053 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1054 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1055 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1056 default rather than Bcc.
1058 New library features
1059 --------------------
1060 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1062 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1063 notmuch_query_t object.
1067 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1069 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1070 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1071 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1072 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1073 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1074 notmuch customize interface.
1076 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1078 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1079 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1080 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1081 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1083 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1085 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1086 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1087 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1088 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1090 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1092 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1093 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1094 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1095 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1096 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1097 notmuch customize interface.
1099 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1101 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1102 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1103 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1104 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1105 notmuch customize interface.
1107 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1109 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1110 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1111 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1112 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1115 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1117 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1118 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1119 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1122 New build-system features
1123 -------------------------
1124 Various portability fixes have been applied
1126 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1127 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1128 more portable than ever before.
1130 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1132 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1133 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1134 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1136 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1137 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1138 automatically run ldconfig.
1140 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1141 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1142 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1144 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1145 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1146 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1147 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1149 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1151 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1152 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1153 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1154 used in the resulting Makefile.
1156 New test-suite features
1157 -----------------------
1158 New modularization of test suite.
1160 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1161 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1162 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1163 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1164 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1165 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1166 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1167 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1169 New testing of emacs interface.
1171 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1172 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1173 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1174 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1175 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1176 database via the FCC setting.
1180 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1182 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1183 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1184 persistent error of the form:
1186 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1188 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1189 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1191 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1193 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1194 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1195 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1197 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1199 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1200 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1201 parsing the notmuch results).
1203 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1205 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1207 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1208 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1209 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1213 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1215 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1216 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1217 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1218 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1219 the emacs interface.
1221 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1223 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1224 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1225 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1227 Python-binding fixes
1228 --------------------
1229 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1231 Debian-specific fixes
1232 ---------------------
1233 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1235 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1236 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1237 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1240 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1241 ==========================
1244 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1246 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1247 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1248 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1249 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1251 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1253 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1254 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1255 want notmuch to crash.
1259 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1261 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1262 directory does not exist.
1266 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1268 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1269 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1271 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1272 ========================
1273 New command-line features
1274 -------------------------
1275 User-configurable tags for new messages
1277 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1278 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1279 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1280 to specify this value.
1282 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1284 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1285 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1286 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1288 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1290 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1291 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1293 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1295 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1296 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1297 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1298 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1299 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1302 Indication of author names that match a search
1304 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1305 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1306 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1307 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1308 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1309 messages in the thread are listed first.
1311 New: Python bindings
1312 --------------------
1313 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1314 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1315 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1316 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1318 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1319 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1320 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1323 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1324 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1325 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1327 Emacs interface improvements
1328 ----------------------------
1329 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1331 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1332 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1333 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1334 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1335 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1336 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1337 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1338 but without any of the disadvantages).
1340 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1341 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1342 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1345 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1346 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1347 recommend instead running something like:
1349 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1351 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1352 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1353 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1356 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1358 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1359 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1360 tweaked by the user.
1362 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1363 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1364 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1367 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1368 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1369 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1372 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1374 This support currently relies on an external program,
1375 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1376 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1377 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1378 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1379 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1382 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1383 notmuch) is available via:
1385 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1387 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1388 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1389 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1391 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1393 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1394 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1395 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1396 making this automatic in a future release.
1398 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1400 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1401 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1402 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1403 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1404 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1405 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1408 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1410 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1411 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1412 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1414 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1416 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1417 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1418 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1420 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1421 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1422 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1423 other representation.
1425 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1426 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1429 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1431 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1432 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1433 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1435 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1436 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1437 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1439 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1441 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1442 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1443 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1444 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1445 to display the search result.
1447 More flexible handling of header visibility
1449 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1450 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1451 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1452 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1453 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1454 with the 'h' keybinding.
1456 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1457 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1458 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1460 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1462 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1464 Customizable formatting of search results
1466 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1467 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1468 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1470 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1472 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1474 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1478 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1480 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1481 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1482 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1483 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1488 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1490 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1491 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1493 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1495 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1496 accept are now all accepted.
1500 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1502 Better display of output from failed tests.
1504 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1505 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1507 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1508 ========================
1509 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1510 detailed release notes this time!
1512 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1513 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1515 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1516 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1517 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1518 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1524 Better guessing of From: header.
1526 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1527 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1528 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1529 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1530 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1533 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1535 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1536 guaranteed to match all messages.
1538 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1540 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1541 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1542 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1543 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1544 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1547 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1550 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1551 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1552 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1553 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1557 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1559 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1560 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1561 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1562 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1564 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1566 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1568 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1569 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1570 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1572 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1574 Previously, the user might see:
1576 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1580 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1582 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1583 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1584 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1585 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1587 Emacs client features
1588 ---------------------
1589 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1591 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1592 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1593 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1594 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1595 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1597 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1600 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1601 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1602 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1603 search with the '*' binding.
1605 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1607 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1608 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1611 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1613 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1614 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1615 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1617 Build-system features
1618 ---------------------
1619 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1621 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1623 We include actual support for:
1625 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1627 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1629 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1630 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1632 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1633 separate "make install-emacs".
1635 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1637 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1638 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1639 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1641 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1644 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1645 ========================
1646 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1648 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1649 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1651 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1652 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1653 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1654 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1655 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1656 tags from messages in a thread.