1 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2 =========================
4 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
5 ---------------------------------------
7 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
8 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
9 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
10 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
11 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
12 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
13 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
17 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
18 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
20 Command-Line Interface
21 ----------------------
23 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
25 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
26 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
27 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
28 print for each message.
30 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
31 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
32 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
33 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
35 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
37 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
38 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
39 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
41 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
43 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
44 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
45 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
46 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
48 `notmuch compact` command
50 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
51 functionality through a more convenient interface than
52 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
53 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
54 move the compacted database into place.
59 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
61 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
62 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
63 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
64 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
65 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
70 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
72 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
73 search, show and tree mode itself)
75 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
78 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
79 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
81 Customising `notmuch-tree`
83 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
84 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
85 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
86 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
87 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
88 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
89 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
91 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
93 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
94 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
95 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
96 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
97 thread when the search was performed.
99 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
101 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
102 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
103 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
105 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
107 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
108 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
111 Built-in help improvements
113 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
114 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
115 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
117 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
119 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
120 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
121 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
123 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
125 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
126 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
128 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
130 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
131 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
132 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
133 to move some of them to the common keymap.
135 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
137 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
138 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
139 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
140 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
142 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
144 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
145 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
146 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
148 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
150 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
151 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
152 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
154 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
156 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
157 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
158 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
159 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
160 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
162 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
164 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
165 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
166 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
167 the body part of the message.
172 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
173 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
174 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
176 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
177 =========================
179 Command-Line Interface
180 ----------------------
182 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
184 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
185 folder and notmuch index.
187 `notmuch count --batch` option
189 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
190 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
192 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
194 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
195 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
196 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
199 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
201 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
202 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
203 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
204 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
205 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
208 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
210 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
211 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
213 Top level option to specify configuration file
215 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
216 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
218 Bash command-line completion
220 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
221 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
222 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
223 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
224 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
225 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
226 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
227 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
228 bash-completion package.
230 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
235 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
237 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
238 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
239 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
240 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
241 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
242 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
243 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
244 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
246 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
248 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
249 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
250 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
252 Key bindings for next/previous thread
254 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
255 previous thread in the search results.
257 Better handling of errors in search buffers
259 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
260 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
262 Faster search and show
264 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
265 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
266 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
267 threads should show faster.
271 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
272 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
273 in question was now removed from this release.
278 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
279 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
284 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
286 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
287 ===========================
292 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
294 Internal test framework changes
295 -------------------------------
297 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
300 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
301 ===========================
303 Internal test framework changes
304 -------------------------------
306 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
307 build failures in non-interactive environments.
309 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
310 =========================
315 Date range search support
317 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
318 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
319 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
320 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
321 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
324 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
326 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
327 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
328 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
329 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
330 but may be removed in a future release.
332 Command-Line Interface
333 ----------------------
335 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
337 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
338 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
340 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
342 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
343 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
344 officially deprecated.
346 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
348 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
349 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
350 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
352 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
354 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
355 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
358 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
359 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
362 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
364 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
365 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
366 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
368 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
370 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
371 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
372 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
374 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
376 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
377 output separated by null characters rather than newline
378 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
379 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
384 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
386 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
387 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
388 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
389 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
391 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
393 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
394 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
395 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
396 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
397 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
398 the behavior of this, see
399 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
400 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
402 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
403 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
404 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
406 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
408 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
409 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
412 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
414 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
415 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
416 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
417 simply displayed in place of the message.
419 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
421 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
422 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
424 Improved text/calendar content handling
426 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
427 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
428 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
429 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
431 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
433 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
434 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
435 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
436 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
438 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
440 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
441 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
442 for HTML email containing images.
444 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
446 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
448 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
450 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
453 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
455 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
456 the point where it was.
458 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
460 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
461 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
462 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
463 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
464 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
466 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
468 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
469 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
470 thread instead of the message id.
472 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
473 -----------------------------
475 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
476 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
477 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
478 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
479 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
480 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
481 further details and installation.
486 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
488 Internal test framework changes
489 -------------------------------
491 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
493 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
494 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
495 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
496 can result in buggy behavior.
498 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
499 =========================
504 Maildir tag synchronization
506 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
507 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
508 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
509 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
510 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
511 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
514 Command-Line Interface
515 ----------------------
517 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
518 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
519 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
520 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
521 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
527 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
529 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
531 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
532 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
533 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
535 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
537 It is now possible to embed newlines in
538 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
541 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
543 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
544 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
545 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
546 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
547 inside the result or message.
549 Search now uses the JSON format internally
551 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
552 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
554 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
555 user-specified formatting
557 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
558 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
559 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
560 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
561 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
563 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
564 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
566 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
567 ===========================
572 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
573 compilation error for this contrib package.
575 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
576 ===========================
581 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
583 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
584 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
585 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
586 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
588 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
589 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
592 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
593 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
594 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
595 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
598 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
600 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
603 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
604 =========================
606 Command-Line Interface
607 ----------------------
611 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
612 for a reply message and full information about the original message
613 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
614 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
616 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
617 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
618 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
619 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
623 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
624 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
626 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
627 tag in your query, for example:
629 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
631 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
632 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
634 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
635 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
637 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
639 Raw show format changes
641 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
642 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
643 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
644 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
645 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
646 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
647 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
648 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
650 Listing configuration items
652 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
658 Changes to tagging interface
660 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
661 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
662 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
663 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
664 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
665 for more information.
667 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
668 may need to update in custom configurations.
670 Reply improvement using the JSON format
672 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
673 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
674 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
675 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
678 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
679 -----------------------------
681 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
682 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
683 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
684 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
685 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
686 contrib/ from now on.
691 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
692 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
694 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
695 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
697 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
698 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
699 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
701 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
702 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
704 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
705 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
706 returning the new database object or directory object.
713 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
714 compatible with go 1.
716 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
717 =========================
719 Command-Line Interface
720 ----------------------
724 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
725 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
726 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
727 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
729 Mail store folder/file ignore
731 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
732 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
733 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
735 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
736 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
738 Unified help and manual pages
740 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
741 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
744 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
746 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
747 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
755 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
756 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
757 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
758 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
760 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
762 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
763 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
765 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
768 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
769 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
770 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
772 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
774 should be changed to:
776 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
778 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
780 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
781 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
783 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
785 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
786 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
787 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
788 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
789 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
790 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
794 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
795 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
796 of Mailing List Archives.
798 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
800 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
801 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
804 Show view archiving key binding changes
806 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
807 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
808 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
809 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
810 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
813 Support text/calendar MIME type
815 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
818 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
820 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
821 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
822 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
823 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
825 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
827 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
828 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
829 messages blue by default in the search view.
833 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
834 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
841 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
844 Python bindings changes
845 -----------------------
847 Python 3.2 compatibility
849 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
851 Added missing unicode conversions
853 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
854 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
855 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
860 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
862 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
863 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
864 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
865 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
866 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
868 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
869 ===========================
874 Fix error handling in python bindings
876 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
877 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
878 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
879 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
881 Quote MML tags in replies
883 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
884 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
885 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
886 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
887 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
888 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
889 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
890 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
892 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
893 =========================
895 Command-Line Interface
896 ----------------------
900 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
901 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
902 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
903 importing new messages into the database.
905 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
907 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
908 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
909 sometimes. This is now fixed.
914 Automatic tag query optimization
916 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
917 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
918 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
920 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
922 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
923 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
924 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
929 Reduction of memory leaks
931 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
932 and fixed in this release.
939 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
940 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
941 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
944 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
946 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
947 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
948 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
951 Improvements in saved search management
953 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
954 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
955 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
957 Hooks for notmuch-hello
959 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
960 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
961 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
963 New face for crypto parts headers
965 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
966 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
967 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
970 Use space as default thousands separator
972 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
973 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
974 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
976 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
979 New function notmuch-show-advance
981 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
982 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
983 be bound to SPC with:
985 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
987 Various performance improvements
992 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
993 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
996 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
997 ===========================
1002 Fix crash in python bindings
1004 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1005 for some, but not all users.
1007 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1008 ===========================
1013 Fix `--help` argument
1015 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1016 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1017 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1019 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1020 =========================
1022 New build and testing features
1023 ------------------------------
1025 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1026 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1027 prerequisites is improved.
1029 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1031 New command-line features
1032 -------------------------
1034 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1036 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1037 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1040 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1042 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1043 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1044 favour of using stdout.
1046 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1048 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1049 limit the number of results shown.
1051 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1053 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1054 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1057 New emacs UI features
1058 ---------------------
1060 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1062 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1063 starting with "tag:".
1065 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1067 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1068 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1070 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1072 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1074 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1076 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1077 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1082 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1084 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1086 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1087 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1088 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1089 requires a database rebuild:
1091 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1092 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1094 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1096 New collection of add-on tools
1097 ------------------------------
1099 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1100 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1101 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1104 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1106 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1107 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1108 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1110 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1111 ========================
1113 New, general features
1114 ---------------------
1116 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1118 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1119 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1120 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1121 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1122 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1129 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1130 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1132 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1136 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1137 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1138 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1141 Python bindings changes
1142 -----------------------
1144 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1146 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1147 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1148 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1149 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1150 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1151 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1153 Ruby bindings changes
1154 ---------------------
1156 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1157 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1158 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1159 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1164 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1166 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1167 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1169 Reply formatting cleanup
1170 ------------------------
1172 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1173 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1175 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1176 ========================
1178 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1180 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1181 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1182 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1183 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1186 Improved Build system portability
1188 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1189 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1190 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1192 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1194 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1196 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1198 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1199 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1200 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1202 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1203 ========================
1205 Vim interface improvements
1206 --------------------------
1208 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1210 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1211 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1212 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1213 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1214 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1216 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1218 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1219 * fix compose temp file name
1221 Python Bindings changes
1222 -----------------------
1224 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1226 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1227 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1229 Build-System improvements
1230 -------------------------
1232 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1234 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1237 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1238 ==========================
1243 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1245 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1246 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1248 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1249 =======================
1251 New, general features
1252 ---------------------
1254 Folder-based searching
1256 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1257 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1258 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1262 For example, one might use things such as:
1268 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1269 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1271 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1272 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1273 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1274 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1276 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1277 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1278 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1281 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1282 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1284 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1286 Support for PGP/MIME
1288 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1289 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1290 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1292 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1294 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1295 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1297 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1298 notmuch will receive these tags.
1300 New command-line features
1301 -------------------------
1303 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1305 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1306 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1308 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1310 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1311 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1312 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1314 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1316 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1317 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1318 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1319 which parts a signature part applies).
1321 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1323 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1324 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1325 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1326 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1327 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1330 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1332 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1333 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1334 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1335 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1336 by translating it internally to the new call.
1338 Performance improvements
1339 ------------------------
1341 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1343 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1344 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1345 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1347 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1348 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1350 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1352 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1353 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1354 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1356 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1357 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1358 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1359 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1361 Faster initial indexing
1363 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1364 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1365 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1367 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1369 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1370 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1371 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1372 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1374 New emacs-interface features
1375 ----------------------------
1377 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1379 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1380 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1381 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1382 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1383 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1384 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1386 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1388 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1389 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1390 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1391 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1393 User-selectable From address
1395 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1396 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1397 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1398 will prompt for the from address to use.
1400 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1401 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1402 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1404 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1405 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1406 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1409 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1411 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1412 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1414 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1416 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1418 ----- Original Message -----
1420 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1421 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1422 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1423 citations work much like conventional citations.
1425 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1427 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1428 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1429 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1430 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1431 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1433 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1434 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1436 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1438 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1439 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1440 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1442 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1444 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1445 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1446 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1447 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1448 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1450 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1452 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1455 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1457 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1459 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1461 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1464 Vim interface improvements
1465 --------------------------
1467 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1469 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1470 * Implementing archive in show view
1471 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1472 * Add delete commands
1475 Bindings improvements
1476 ---------------------
1478 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1480 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1481 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1483 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1485 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1489 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1490 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1491 `list(Messages)` works now
1492 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1494 These allow, for example:
1496 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1498 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1500 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1506 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1508 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1511 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1513 New build-system features
1514 -------------------------
1516 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1518 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1519 the configure script from some other directory:
1526 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1528 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1529 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1530 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1531 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1532 manual invocation of configure.
1534 New test-suite feature
1535 ----------------------
1537 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1539 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1540 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1541 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1542 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1543 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1546 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1548 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1549 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1550 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1551 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1552 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1553 are updated to take advantage of this.
1555 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1557 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1558 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1559 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1560 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1566 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1568 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1569 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1570 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1572 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1574 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1576 to:user@elsewhere.com
1578 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1580 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1582 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1584 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1585 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1586 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1589 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1590 from the Received headers in some cases
1592 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1593 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1595 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1597 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1599 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1601 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1602 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1603 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1605 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1606 -------------------------
1608 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1610 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1611 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1612 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1614 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1616 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1617 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1618 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1621 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1623 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1624 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1625 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1626 fixed to avoid this bug.
1628 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1630 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1631 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1633 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1634 ========================
1636 New, general features
1637 ---------------------
1639 Maildir-flag synchronization
1641 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1642 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1651 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1653 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1654 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1655 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1656 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1658 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1659 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1660 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1661 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1664 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1666 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1667 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1668 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1670 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1671 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1673 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1674 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1676 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1677 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1678 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1680 New library features
1681 --------------------
1683 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1685 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1686 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1687 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1688 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1690 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1691 message with the new function:
1693 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1695 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1696 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1697 over all available filenames for a given message.
1699 New command-line features
1700 -------------------------
1702 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1704 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1705 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1706 access to the mail store itself.
1708 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1709 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1710 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1711 name of a script containing:
1713 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1715 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1716 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1722 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1724 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1726 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1728 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1729 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1730 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1731 now produces nothing).
1733 Emacs interface improvements
1734 ----------------------------
1736 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1738 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1740 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1742 Display current thread subject in a header line
1744 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1746 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1748 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1749 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1750 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1751 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1752 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1753 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1754 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1756 Vim interface improvements
1757 --------------------------
1759 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1761 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1762 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1768 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1770 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1771 ========================
1773 New command-line features
1774 -------------------------
1776 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1778 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1779 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1780 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1782 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1783 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1784 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1785 scripts. For example:
1787 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1788 <operations-on> "$file"
1791 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1793 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1794 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1795 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1796 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1797 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1798 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1800 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1802 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1803 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1804 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1805 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1807 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1809 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1810 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1811 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1812 default rather than Bcc.
1814 New library features
1815 --------------------
1817 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1819 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1820 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1825 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1827 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1828 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1829 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1830 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1831 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1832 notmuch customize interface.
1834 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1836 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1837 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1838 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1839 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1841 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1843 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1844 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1845 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1846 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1848 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1850 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1851 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1852 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1853 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1854 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1855 notmuch customize interface.
1857 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1859 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1860 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1861 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1862 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1863 notmuch customize interface.
1865 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1867 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1868 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1869 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1870 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1873 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1875 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1876 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1877 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1880 New build-system features
1881 -------------------------
1883 Various portability fixes have been applied
1885 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1886 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1887 more portable than ever before.
1889 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1891 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1892 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1893 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1895 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1896 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1897 automatically run ldconfig.
1899 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1900 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1901 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1903 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1904 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1905 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1906 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1908 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1910 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1911 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1912 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1913 used in the resulting Makefile.
1915 New test-suite features
1916 -----------------------
1918 New modularization of test suite
1920 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1921 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1922 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1923 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1924 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1925 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1926 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1927 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1929 New testing of emacs interface
1931 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1932 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1933 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1934 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1935 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1936 database via the FCC setting.
1941 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1943 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1944 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1945 persistent error of the form:
1947 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1949 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1950 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1952 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1954 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1955 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1956 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1958 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1960 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1961 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1962 parsing the notmuch results).
1964 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1966 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1969 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1970 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1971 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1976 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1978 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1979 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1980 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1981 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1982 the emacs interface.
1984 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1986 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1987 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1988 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1990 Python-binding fixes
1991 --------------------
1993 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1995 Debian-specific fixes
1996 ---------------------
1998 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2000 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2001 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2002 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2005 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2006 ==========================
2011 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2013 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2014 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2015 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2016 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2018 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2020 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2021 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2022 want notmuch to crash.
2027 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2029 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2030 directory does not exist
2035 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2037 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2038 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2040 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2041 ========================
2043 New command-line features
2044 -------------------------
2046 User-configurable tags for new messages
2048 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2049 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2050 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2051 to specify this value.
2053 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2055 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2056 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2057 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2059 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2061 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2062 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2064 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2066 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2067 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2068 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2069 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2070 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2073 Indication of author names that match a search
2075 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2076 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2077 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2078 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2079 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2080 messages in the thread are listed first.
2082 New: Python bindings
2083 --------------------
2085 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2086 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2087 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2088 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2090 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2091 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2092 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2095 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2096 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2097 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2099 Emacs interface improvements
2100 ----------------------------
2102 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2104 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2105 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2106 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2107 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2108 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2109 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2110 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2111 but without any of the disadvantages).
2113 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2114 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2115 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2118 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2119 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2120 instead running something like:
2122 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2124 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2125 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2126 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2129 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2131 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2132 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2133 tweaked by the user.
2135 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2136 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2137 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2140 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2141 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2142 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2145 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2147 This support currently relies on an external program,
2148 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2149 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2150 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2151 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2152 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2155 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2156 notmuch) is available via:
2158 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2160 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2161 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2162 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2164 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2166 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2167 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2168 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2169 making this automatic in a future release.
2171 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2173 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2174 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2175 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2176 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2177 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2178 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2181 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2183 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2184 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2185 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2187 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2189 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2190 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2191 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2193 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2194 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2195 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2196 other representation.
2198 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2199 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2202 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2204 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2205 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2206 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2208 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2209 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2210 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2212 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2214 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2215 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2216 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2217 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2218 to display the search result.
2220 More flexible handling of header visibility
2222 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2223 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2224 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2225 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2226 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2227 with the 'h' keybinding.
2229 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2230 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2231 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2233 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2235 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2237 Customizable formatting of search results
2239 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2240 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2241 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2243 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2245 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2247 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2252 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2254 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2255 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2256 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2257 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2263 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2265 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2266 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2268 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2270 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2271 accept are now all accepted.
2276 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2278 Better display of output from failed tests
2280 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2281 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2283 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2284 ========================
2286 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2287 detailed release notes this time!
2289 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2290 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2292 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2293 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2294 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2295 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2302 Better guessing of From: header
2304 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2305 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2306 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2307 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2308 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2311 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2313 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2314 guaranteed to match all messages.
2316 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2318 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2319 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2320 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2321 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2322 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2325 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2328 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2329 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2330 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2331 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2336 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2338 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2339 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2340 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2341 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2343 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2345 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2347 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2348 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2349 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2351 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2353 Previously, the user might see:
2355 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2359 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2361 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2362 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2363 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2364 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2366 Emacs client features
2367 ---------------------
2369 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2371 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2372 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2373 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2374 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2375 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2377 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2380 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2381 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2382 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2383 search with the '*' binding.
2385 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2387 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2388 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2391 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2393 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2394 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2395 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2397 Build-system features
2398 ---------------------
2400 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2402 Add support to configure for many standard options
2404 We include actual support for:
2406 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2408 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2410 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2411 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2413 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2414 separate "make install-emacs"
2416 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2418 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2419 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2420 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2422 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2425 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2426 ========================
2428 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2430 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2431 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2433 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2434 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2435 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2436 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2437 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2438 tags from messages in a thread.
2445 indent-tabs-mode: nil