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.
109 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
112 Python bindings changes
113 -----------------------
115 Python 3.2 compatibility
117 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
119 Added missing unicode conversions
121 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
122 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
123 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
128 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
130 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
131 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
132 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
134 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
135 ===========================
140 Fix error handling in python bindings.
142 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
143 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
144 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
145 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
147 Quote MML tags in replies
149 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
150 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
151 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
152 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
153 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
154 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
155 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
156 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
158 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
159 =========================
161 Command-Line Interface
162 ----------------------
166 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
167 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
168 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
169 importing new messages into the database.
171 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
173 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
174 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
175 sometimes. This is now fixed.
180 Automatic tag query optimization
182 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
183 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
184 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
186 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
188 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
189 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
190 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
195 Reduction of memory leaks
197 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
198 and fixed in this release.
205 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
206 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
207 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
210 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
212 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
213 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
214 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
217 Improvements in saved search management
219 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
220 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
221 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
223 Hooks for notmuch-hello
225 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
226 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
227 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
229 New face for crypto parts headers
231 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
232 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
233 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
236 Use space as default thousands separator
238 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
239 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
240 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
242 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
243 buttonized id: links.
245 New function notmuch-show-advance
247 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
248 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
249 be bound to SPC with:
251 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
253 Various performance improvements.
258 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
259 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
262 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
263 ===========================
268 Fix crash in python bindings.
270 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
271 for some, but not all users.
273 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
274 ===========================
281 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
282 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
285 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
286 =========================
288 New build and testing features
289 ------------------------------
291 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
292 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
293 prerequisites is improved.
295 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
297 New command-line features
298 -------------------------
300 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
302 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
303 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
306 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
308 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
309 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
310 favour of using stdout.
312 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
314 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
315 the number of results shown.
317 Add "notmuch count --output" option
319 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
320 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
322 New emacs UI features
323 ---------------------
325 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
327 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
328 starting with "tag:".
330 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
332 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
333 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
335 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
337 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
339 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
341 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
342 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
347 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
349 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
351 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
352 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
353 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
354 requires a database rebuild:
356 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
357 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
359 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
361 New collection of add-on tools
362 ------------------------------
364 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
365 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
366 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
369 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
371 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
372 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
373 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
375 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
376 ========================
378 New, general features
379 ---------------------
381 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
383 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
384 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
385 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
386 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
387 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
394 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
395 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
397 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
401 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
402 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
403 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
406 Python bindings changes
407 -----------------------
409 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
411 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
412 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
413 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
414 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
415 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
416 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
418 Ruby bindings changes
419 ---------------------
421 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
422 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
423 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
424 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
429 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
431 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
432 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
434 Reply formatting cleanup
435 ------------------------
437 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
438 MIME parts are being suppressed.
440 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
441 ========================
443 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
445 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
446 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
447 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
448 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
451 Improved Build system portability
453 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
454 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
455 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
457 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
459 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
461 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
463 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
464 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
465 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
467 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
468 ========================
470 Vim interface improvements
471 --------------------------
473 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
475 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
476 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
477 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
478 * fix from list reformatting in search view
479 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
481 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
483 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
484 * fix compose temp file name
486 Python Bindings changes
487 -----------------------
489 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
491 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
492 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
494 Build-System improvements
495 ------------------------
497 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
499 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
502 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
503 ==========================
508 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
510 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
511 people running gcc 4.4.5.
513 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
514 =======================
515 New, general features
516 ---------------------
517 Folder-based searching
519 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
520 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
521 storage). The syntax is as follows:
525 For example, one might use things such as:
531 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
532 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
534 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
535 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
536 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
537 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
539 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
540 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
541 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
544 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
545 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
547 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
551 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
552 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
553 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
555 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
557 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
558 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
560 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
561 notmuch will receive these tags.
563 New command-line features
564 -------------------------
565 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
567 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
568 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
570 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
572 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
573 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
574 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
576 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
578 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
579 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
580 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
581 which parts a signature part applies).
583 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
585 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
586 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
587 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
588 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
589 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
592 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
594 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
595 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
596 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
597 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
598 by translating it internally to the new call.
600 Performance improvements
601 ------------------------
602 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
604 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
605 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
606 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
608 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
609 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
611 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
613 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
614 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
615 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
617 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
618 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
619 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
620 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
622 Faster initial indexing
624 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
625 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
626 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
628 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
630 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
631 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
632 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
633 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
635 New emacs-interface features
636 ----------------------------
638 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
640 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
641 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
642 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
643 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
644 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
645 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
647 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
649 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
650 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
651 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
652 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
654 User-selectable From address
656 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
657 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
658 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
659 will prompt for the from address to use.
661 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
662 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
663 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
665 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
666 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
667 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
670 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
672 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
673 its parent, the subject is not shown.
675 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
677 When a message contains a line looking something like:
679 ----- Original Message -----
681 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
682 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
683 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
684 citations work much like conventional citations.
686 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
688 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
689 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
690 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
691 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
692 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
694 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
695 Notmuch After Tag Hook
697 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
699 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
700 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
701 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
703 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
705 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
706 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
707 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
708 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
709 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
711 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
713 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
716 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
718 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
720 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
721 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
723 Vim interface improvements
724 --------------------------
725 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
727 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
728 * Implementing archive in show view
729 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
730 * Add delete commands
733 Bindings improvements
734 ---------------------
735 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
737 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
738 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
740 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
741 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
744 - Message().get_filenames(),
745 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
746 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
748 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
749 These allow, for example:
752 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
754 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
759 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
760 Use len(list(Messages())) or
761 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
763 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
765 New build-system features
766 -------------------------
767 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
769 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
770 the configure script from some other directory:
777 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
779 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
780 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
781 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
782 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
783 manual invocation of configure.
785 New test-suite feature
786 ----------------------
787 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
789 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
790 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
791 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
792 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
793 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
796 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
798 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
799 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
800 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
801 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
802 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
803 are updated to take advantage of this.
805 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
807 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
808 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
809 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
810 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
815 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
817 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
818 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
819 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
821 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
823 This fixed a bug where a search for:
825 to:user@elsewhere.com
827 would incorrectly match a message sent:
829 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
831 Fix --output=json when search has no results
833 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
834 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
835 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
838 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
839 from the Received headers in some cases.
841 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
842 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
844 Cleaned up several memory leaks
846 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
848 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
850 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
851 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
852 interface and were never intended to be exported.
854 Emacs-interface bug fixes
855 -------------------------
856 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
858 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
859 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
860 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
862 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
864 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
865 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
866 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
869 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
871 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
872 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
873 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
874 fixed to avoid this bug.
876 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
878 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
879 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
881 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
882 ========================
883 New, general features
884 ---------------------
885 Maildir-flag synchronization
887 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
888 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
897 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
899 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
900 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
901 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
902 renamed with an 'R' flag).
904 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
905 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
906 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
907 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
910 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
912 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
913 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
914 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
916 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
917 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
919 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
920 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
922 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
923 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
924 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
928 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
930 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
931 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
932 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
933 notmuch_message_get_filename).
935 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
936 message with the new function:
938 notmuch_message_get_filenames
940 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
941 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
942 all available filenames for a given message.
944 New command-line features
945 -------------------------
946 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
948 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
949 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
950 access to the mail store itself.
952 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
953 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
954 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
955 name of a script containing:
957 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
959 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
960 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
965 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
967 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
969 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
971 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
972 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
973 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
974 now produces nothing).
976 Emacs interface improvements
977 ----------------------------
978 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
980 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
982 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
984 Display current thread subject in a header line.
986 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
988 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
990 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
991 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
992 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
993 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
994 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
995 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
996 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
998 Vim interface improvements
999 --------------------------
1000 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1002 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1003 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1008 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1010 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1011 ========================
1012 New command-line features
1013 -------------------------
1014 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1016 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1017 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1018 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1020 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1021 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1022 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1023 scripts. For example:
1025 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1026 <operations-on> "$file"
1029 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1031 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1032 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1033 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1034 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1035 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1036 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1038 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1040 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1041 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1042 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1043 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1045 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1047 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1048 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1049 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1050 default rather than Bcc.
1052 New library features
1053 --------------------
1054 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1056 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1057 notmuch_query_t object.
1061 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1063 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1064 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1065 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1066 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1067 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1068 notmuch customize interface.
1070 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1072 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1073 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1074 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1075 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1077 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1079 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1080 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1081 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1082 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1084 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1086 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1087 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1088 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1089 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1090 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1091 notmuch customize interface.
1093 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1095 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1096 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1097 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1098 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1099 notmuch customize interface.
1101 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1103 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1104 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1105 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1106 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1109 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1111 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1112 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1113 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1116 New build-system features
1117 -------------------------
1118 Various portability fixes have been applied
1120 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1121 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1122 more portable than ever before.
1124 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1126 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1127 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1128 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1130 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1131 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1132 automatically run ldconfig.
1134 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1135 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1136 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1138 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1139 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1140 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1141 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1143 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1145 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1146 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1147 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1148 used in the resulting Makefile.
1150 New test-suite features
1151 -----------------------
1152 New modularization of test suite.
1154 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1155 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1156 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1157 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1158 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1159 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1160 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1161 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1163 New testing of emacs interface.
1165 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1166 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1167 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1168 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1169 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1170 database via the FCC setting.
1174 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1176 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1177 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1178 persistent error of the form:
1180 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1182 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1183 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1185 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1187 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1188 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1189 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1191 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1193 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1194 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1195 parsing the notmuch results).
1197 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1199 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1201 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1202 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1203 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1207 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1209 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1210 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1211 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1212 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1213 the emacs interface.
1215 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1217 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1218 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1219 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1221 Python-binding fixes
1222 --------------------
1223 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1225 Debian-specific fixes
1226 ---------------------
1227 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1229 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1230 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1231 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1234 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1235 ==========================
1238 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1240 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1241 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1242 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1243 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1245 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1247 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1248 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1249 want notmuch to crash.
1253 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1255 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1256 directory does not exist.
1260 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1262 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1263 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1265 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1266 ========================
1267 New command-line features
1268 -------------------------
1269 User-configurable tags for new messages
1271 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1272 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1273 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1274 to specify this value.
1276 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1278 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1279 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1280 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1282 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1284 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1285 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1287 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1289 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1290 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1291 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1292 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1293 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1296 Indication of author names that match a search
1298 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1299 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1300 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1301 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1302 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1303 messages in the thread are listed first.
1305 New: Python bindings
1306 --------------------
1307 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1308 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1309 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1310 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1312 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1313 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1314 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1317 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1318 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1319 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1321 Emacs interface improvements
1322 ----------------------------
1323 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1325 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1326 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1327 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1328 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1329 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1330 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1331 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1332 but without any of the disadvantages).
1334 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1335 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1336 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1339 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1340 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1341 recommend instead running something like:
1343 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1345 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1346 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1347 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1350 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1352 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1353 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1354 tweaked by the user.
1356 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1357 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1358 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1361 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1362 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1363 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1366 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1368 This support currently relies on an external program,
1369 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1370 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1371 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1372 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1373 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1376 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1377 notmuch) is available via:
1379 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1381 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1382 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1383 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1385 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1387 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1388 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1389 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1390 making this automatic in a future release.
1392 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1394 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1395 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1396 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1397 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1398 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1399 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1402 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1404 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1405 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1406 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1408 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1410 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1411 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1412 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1414 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1415 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1416 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1417 other representation.
1419 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1420 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1423 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1425 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1426 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1427 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1429 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1430 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1431 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1433 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1435 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1436 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1437 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1438 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1439 to display the search result.
1441 More flexible handling of header visibility
1443 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1444 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1445 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1446 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1447 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1448 with the 'h' keybinding.
1450 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1451 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1452 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1454 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1456 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1458 Customizable formatting of search results
1460 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1461 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1462 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1464 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1466 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1468 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1472 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1474 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1475 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1476 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1477 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1482 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1484 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1485 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1487 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1489 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1490 accept are now all accepted.
1494 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1496 Better display of output from failed tests.
1498 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1499 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1501 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1502 ========================
1503 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1504 detailed release notes this time!
1506 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1507 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1509 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1510 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1511 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1512 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1518 Better guessing of From: header.
1520 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1521 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1522 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1523 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1524 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1527 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1529 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1530 guaranteed to match all messages.
1532 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1534 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1535 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1536 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1537 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1538 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1541 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1544 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1545 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1546 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1547 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1551 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1553 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1554 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1555 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1556 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1558 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1560 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1562 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1563 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1564 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1566 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1568 Previously, the user might see:
1570 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1574 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1576 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1577 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1578 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1579 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1581 Emacs client features
1582 ---------------------
1583 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1585 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1586 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1587 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1588 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1589 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1591 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1594 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1595 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1596 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1597 search with the '*' binding.
1599 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1601 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1602 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1605 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1607 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1608 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1609 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1611 Build-system features
1612 ---------------------
1613 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1615 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1617 We include actual support for:
1619 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1621 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1623 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1624 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1626 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1627 separate "make install-emacs".
1629 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1631 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1632 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1633 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1635 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1638 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1639 ========================
1640 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1642 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1643 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1645 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1646 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1647 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1648 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1649 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1650 tags from messages in a thread.