3 Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches
5 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
6 under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch
7 customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and
8 treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive
11 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
13 This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be
14 customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user
15 might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to
16 automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message
17 Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface.
19 Emacs mail improvements
20 -----------------------
22 Easier way to define a fcc directory
24 In the common case that a user only has one FCC (save outgoing mail
25 in the Mail directory, it is now possible to simply configure a
26 string such as "Sent" in the notmuch-fcc-dirs variable. More complex
27 options, depending on a users email address, are possible and
28 described in the variable customization help text.
30 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
31 ==========================
34 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
36 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
37 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
38 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
39 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
41 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
43 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
44 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
45 want notmuch to crash.
49 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
51 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
52 directory does not exist.
56 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
58 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
59 final linking of notmuch would fail.
61 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
62 ========================
63 New command-line features
64 -------------------------
65 User-configurable tags for new messages
67 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
68 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
69 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
70 to specify this value.
72 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
74 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
75 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
76 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
78 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
80 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
81 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
83 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
85 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
86 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
87 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
88 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
89 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
92 Indication of author names that match a search
94 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
95 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
96 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
97 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
98 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
99 messages in the thread are listed first.
103 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
104 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
105 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
106 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
108 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
109 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
110 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
113 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
114 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
115 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
117 Emacs interface improvements
118 ----------------------------
119 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
121 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
122 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
123 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
124 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
125 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
126 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
127 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
128 but without any of the disadvantages).
130 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
131 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
132 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
135 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
136 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
137 recommend instead running something like:
139 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
141 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
142 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
143 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
146 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
148 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
149 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
152 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
153 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
154 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
157 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
158 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
159 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
162 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
164 This support currently relies on an external program,
165 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
166 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
167 already been written that generate address completions by doing
168 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
169 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
172 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
173 notmuch) is available via:
175 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
177 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
178 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
179 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
181 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
183 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
184 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
185 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
186 making this automatic in a future release.
188 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
190 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
191 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
192 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
193 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
194 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
195 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
198 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
200 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
201 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
202 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
204 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
206 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
207 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
208 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
210 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
211 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
212 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
213 other representation.
215 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
216 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
219 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
221 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
222 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
223 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
225 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
226 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
227 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
229 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
231 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
232 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
233 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
234 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
235 to display the search result.
237 More flexible handling of header visibility
239 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
240 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
241 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
242 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
243 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
244 with the 'h' keybinding.
246 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
247 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
248 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
250 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
252 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
254 Customizable formatting of search results
256 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
257 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
258 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
260 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
262 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
264 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
268 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
270 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
271 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
272 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
273 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
278 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
280 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
281 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
283 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
285 For example, those that the gentoo build scripts expect configure to
286 accept are now all accepted.
290 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
292 Better display of output from failed tests.
294 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
295 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
297 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
298 ========================
299 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
300 detailed release notes this time!
302 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
303 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
305 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
306 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
307 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
308 notmuch in subsequent releases.
314 Better guessing of From: header.
316 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
317 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
318 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
319 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
320 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
323 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
325 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
326 guaranteed to match all messages.
328 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
330 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
331 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
332 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
333 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
334 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
337 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
340 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
341 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
342 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
343 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
347 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
349 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
350 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
351 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
352 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
354 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
356 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
358 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
359 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
360 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
362 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
364 Previously, the user might see:
366 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
370 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
372 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
373 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
374 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
375 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
377 Emacs client features
378 ---------------------
379 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
381 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
382 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
383 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
384 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
385 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
387 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
390 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
391 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
392 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
393 search with th '*' binding.
395 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
397 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
398 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
401 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
403 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
404 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
405 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
407 Build-system features
408 ---------------------
409 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
411 Add support to configure for many standard options.
413 We include actual support for:
415 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
417 And accept and silently ignore several more:
419 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
420 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
422 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
423 separate "make install-emacs".
425 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
427 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
428 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
429 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
431 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
434 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
435 ========================
436 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
438 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
439 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
441 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
442 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
443 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
444 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
445 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
446 tags from messages in a thread.