1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
44 Raw show format changes
46 The output of show --format=raw has changed for multipart and
47 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
48 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
49 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
50 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
51 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
52 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
53 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
55 Listing configuration items
57 The new "config list" command prints out all configuration items and
63 Reply improvement using the JSON format
65 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
66 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
67 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
68 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
71 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
72 -----------------------------
74 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
75 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
76 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
77 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
78 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
86 The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
87 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
89 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
90 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
91 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
93 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
94 =========================
96 Command-Line Interface
97 ----------------------
101 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
102 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
103 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
104 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
106 Mail store folder/file ignore
108 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
109 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
110 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
112 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
113 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
115 Unified help and manual pages
117 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
118 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
121 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
123 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
124 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
132 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
133 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
134 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
135 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
137 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
139 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
140 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
142 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
145 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
146 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
147 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
149 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
151 should be changed to:
153 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
155 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
157 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
158 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
160 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
162 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
163 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
164 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
165 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
166 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
167 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
171 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
172 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
173 of Mailing List Archives.
175 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
177 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
178 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
181 Show view archiving key binding changes
183 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
184 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
185 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
186 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
187 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
190 Support text/calendar MIME type
192 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
195 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
197 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
198 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
199 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
200 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
202 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
204 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
205 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
206 messages blue by default in the search view.
210 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
211 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
218 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
221 Python bindings changes
222 -----------------------
224 Python 3.2 compatibility
226 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
228 Added missing unicode conversions
230 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
231 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
232 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
237 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
239 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
240 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
241 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
242 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
243 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
245 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
246 ===========================
251 Fix error handling in python bindings
253 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
254 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
255 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
256 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
258 Quote MML tags in replies
260 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
261 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
262 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
263 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
264 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
265 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
266 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
267 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
269 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
270 =========================
272 Command-Line Interface
273 ----------------------
277 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
278 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
279 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
280 importing new messages into the database.
282 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
284 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
285 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
286 sometimes. This is now fixed.
291 Automatic tag query optimization
293 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
294 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
295 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
297 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
299 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
300 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
301 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
306 Reduction of memory leaks
308 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
309 and fixed in this release.
316 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
317 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
318 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
321 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
323 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
324 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
325 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
328 Improvements in saved search management
330 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
331 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
332 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
334 Hooks for notmuch-hello
336 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
337 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
338 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
340 New face for crypto parts headers
342 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
343 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
344 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
347 Use space as default thousands separator
349 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
350 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
351 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
353 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
356 New function notmuch-show-advance
358 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
359 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
360 be bound to SPC with:
362 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
364 Various performance improvements
369 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
370 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
373 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
374 ===========================
379 Fix crash in python bindings
381 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
382 for some, but not all users.
384 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
385 ===========================
390 Fix `--help` argument
392 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
393 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
394 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
396 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
397 =========================
399 New build and testing features
400 ------------------------------
402 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
403 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
404 prerequisites is improved.
406 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
408 New command-line features
409 -------------------------
411 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
413 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
414 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
417 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
419 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
420 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
421 favour of using stdout.
423 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
425 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
426 limit the number of results shown.
428 Add `notmuch count --output` option
430 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
431 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
434 New emacs UI features
435 ---------------------
437 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
439 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
440 starting with "tag:".
442 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
444 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
445 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
447 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
449 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
451 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
453 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
454 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
459 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
461 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
463 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
464 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
465 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
466 requires a database rebuild:
468 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
469 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
471 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
473 New collection of add-on tools
474 ------------------------------
476 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
477 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
478 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
481 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
483 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
484 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
485 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
487 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
488 ========================
490 New, general features
491 ---------------------
493 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
495 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
496 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
497 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
498 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
499 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
506 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
507 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
509 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
513 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
514 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
515 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
518 Python bindings changes
519 -----------------------
521 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
523 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
524 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
525 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
526 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
527 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
528 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
530 Ruby bindings changes
531 ---------------------
533 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
534 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
535 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
536 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
541 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
543 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
544 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
546 Reply formatting cleanup
547 ------------------------
549 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
550 MIME parts are being suppressed.
552 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
553 ========================
555 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
557 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
558 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
559 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
560 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
563 Improved Build system portability
565 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
566 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
567 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
569 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
571 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
573 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
575 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
576 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
577 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
579 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
580 ========================
582 Vim interface improvements
583 --------------------------
585 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
587 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
588 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
589 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
590 * fix from list reformatting in search view
591 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
593 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
595 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
596 * fix compose temp file name
598 Python Bindings changes
599 -----------------------
601 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
603 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
604 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
606 Build-System improvements
607 -------------------------
609 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
611 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
614 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
615 ==========================
620 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
622 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
623 people running gcc 4.4.5.
625 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
626 =======================
628 New, general features
629 ---------------------
631 Folder-based searching
633 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
634 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
635 storage). The syntax is as follows:
639 For example, one might use things such as:
645 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
646 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
648 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
649 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
650 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
651 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
653 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
654 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
655 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
658 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
659 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
661 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
665 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
666 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
667 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
669 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
671 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
672 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
674 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
675 notmuch will receive these tags.
677 New command-line features
678 -------------------------
680 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
682 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
683 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
685 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
687 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
688 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
689 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
691 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
693 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
694 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
695 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
696 which parts a signature part applies).
698 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
700 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
701 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
702 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
703 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
704 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
707 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
709 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
710 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
711 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
712 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
713 by translating it internally to the new call.
715 Performance improvements
716 ------------------------
718 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
720 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
721 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
722 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
724 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
725 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
727 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
729 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
730 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
731 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
733 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
734 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
735 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
736 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
738 Faster initial indexing
740 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
741 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
742 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
744 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
746 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
747 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
748 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
749 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
751 New emacs-interface features
752 ----------------------------
754 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
756 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
757 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
758 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
759 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
760 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
761 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
763 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
765 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
766 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
767 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
768 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
770 User-selectable From address
772 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
773 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
774 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
775 will prompt for the from address to use.
777 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
778 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
779 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
781 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
782 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
783 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
786 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
788 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
789 its parent, the subject is not shown.
791 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
793 When a message contains a line looking something like:
795 ----- Original Message -----
797 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
798 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
799 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
800 citations work much like conventional citations.
802 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
804 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
805 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
806 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
807 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
808 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
810 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
811 Notmuch After Tag Hook
813 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
815 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
816 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
817 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
819 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
821 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
822 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
823 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
824 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
825 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
827 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
829 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
832 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
834 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
836 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
838 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
841 Vim interface improvements
842 --------------------------
844 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
846 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
847 * Implementing archive in show view
848 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
849 * Add delete commands
852 Bindings improvements
853 ---------------------
855 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
857 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
858 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
860 Python bindings have been updated and extended
862 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
866 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
867 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
868 `list(Messages)` works now
869 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
871 These allow, for example:
875 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
877 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
883 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
885 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
888 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
890 New build-system features
891 -------------------------
893 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
895 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
896 the configure script from some other directory:
903 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
905 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
906 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
907 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
908 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
909 manual invocation of configure.
911 New test-suite feature
912 ----------------------
914 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
916 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
917 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
918 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
919 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
920 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
923 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
925 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
926 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
927 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
928 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
929 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
930 are updated to take advantage of this.
932 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
934 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
935 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
936 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
937 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
943 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
945 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
946 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
947 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
949 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
951 This fixed a bug where a search for:
953 to:user@elsewhere.com
955 would incorrectly match a message sent:
957 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
959 Fix --output=json when search has no results
961 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
962 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
963 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
966 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
967 from the Received headers in some cases
969 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
970 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
972 Cleaned up several memory leaks
974 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
976 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
978 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
979 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
980 interface and were never intended to be exported.
982 Emacs-interface bug fixes
983 -------------------------
985 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
987 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
988 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
989 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
991 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
993 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
994 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
995 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
998 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1000 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1001 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1002 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1003 fixed to avoid this bug.
1005 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1007 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1008 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1010 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1011 ========================
1013 New, general features
1014 ---------------------
1016 Maildir-flag synchronization
1018 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1019 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1028 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1030 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1031 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1032 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1033 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1035 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1036 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1037 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1038 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1041 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1043 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1044 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1045 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1047 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1048 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1050 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1051 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1053 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1054 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1055 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1057 New library features
1058 --------------------
1060 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1062 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1063 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1064 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1065 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1067 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1068 message with the new function:
1070 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1072 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1073 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1074 over all available filenames for a given message.
1076 New command-line features
1077 -------------------------
1079 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1081 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1082 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1083 access to the mail store itself.
1085 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1086 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1087 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1088 name of a script containing:
1090 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1092 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1093 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1099 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1101 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1103 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1105 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1106 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1107 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1108 now produces nothing).
1110 Emacs interface improvements
1111 ----------------------------
1113 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1115 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1117 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1119 Display current thread subject in a header line
1121 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1123 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1125 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1126 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1127 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1128 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1129 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1130 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1131 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1133 Vim interface improvements
1134 --------------------------
1136 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1138 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1139 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1145 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1147 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1148 ========================
1150 New command-line features
1151 -------------------------
1153 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1155 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1156 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1157 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1159 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1160 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1161 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1162 scripts. For example:
1164 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1165 <operations-on> "$file"
1168 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1170 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1171 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1172 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1173 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1174 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1175 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1177 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1179 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1180 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1181 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1182 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1184 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1186 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1187 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1188 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1189 default rather than Bcc.
1191 New library features
1192 --------------------
1194 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1196 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1197 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1202 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1204 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1205 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1206 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1207 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1208 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1209 notmuch customize interface.
1211 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1213 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1214 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1215 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1216 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1218 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1220 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1221 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1222 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1223 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1225 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1227 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1228 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1229 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1230 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1231 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1232 notmuch customize interface.
1234 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1236 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1237 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1238 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1239 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1240 notmuch customize interface.
1242 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1244 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1245 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1246 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1247 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1250 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1252 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1253 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1254 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1257 New build-system features
1258 -------------------------
1260 Various portability fixes have been applied
1262 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1263 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1264 more portable than ever before.
1266 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1268 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1269 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1270 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1272 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1273 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1274 automatically run ldconfig.
1276 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1277 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1278 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1280 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1281 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1282 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1283 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1285 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1287 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1288 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1289 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1290 used in the resulting Makefile.
1292 New test-suite features
1293 -----------------------
1295 New modularization of test suite
1297 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1298 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1299 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1300 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1301 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1302 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1303 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1304 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1306 New testing of emacs interface
1308 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1309 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1310 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1311 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1312 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1313 database via the FCC setting.
1318 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1320 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1321 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1322 persistent error of the form:
1324 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1326 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1327 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1329 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1331 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1332 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1333 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1335 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1337 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1338 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1339 parsing the notmuch results).
1341 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1343 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1346 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1347 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1348 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1353 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1355 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1356 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1357 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1358 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1359 the emacs interface.
1361 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1363 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1364 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1365 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1367 Python-binding fixes
1368 --------------------
1370 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1372 Debian-specific fixes
1373 ---------------------
1375 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1377 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1378 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1379 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1382 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1383 ==========================
1388 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1390 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1391 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1392 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1393 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1395 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1397 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1398 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1399 want notmuch to crash.
1404 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1406 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1407 directory does not exist
1412 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1414 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1415 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1417 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1418 ========================
1420 New command-line features
1421 -------------------------
1423 User-configurable tags for new messages
1425 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1426 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1427 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1428 to specify this value.
1430 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1432 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1433 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1434 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1436 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1438 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1439 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1441 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1443 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1444 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1445 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1446 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1447 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1450 Indication of author names that match a search
1452 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1453 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1454 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1455 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1456 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1457 messages in the thread are listed first.
1459 New: Python bindings
1460 --------------------
1462 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1463 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1464 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1465 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1467 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1468 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1469 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1472 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1473 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1474 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1476 Emacs interface improvements
1477 ----------------------------
1479 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1481 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1482 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1483 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1484 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1485 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1486 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1487 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1488 but without any of the disadvantages).
1490 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1491 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1492 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1495 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1496 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1497 instead running something like:
1499 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1501 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1502 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1503 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1506 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1508 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1509 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1510 tweaked by the user.
1512 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1513 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1514 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1517 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1518 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1519 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1522 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1524 This support currently relies on an external program,
1525 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1526 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1527 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1528 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1529 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1532 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1533 notmuch) is available via:
1535 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1537 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1538 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1539 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1541 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1543 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1544 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1545 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1546 making this automatic in a future release.
1548 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1550 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1551 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1552 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1553 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1554 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1555 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1558 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1560 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1561 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1562 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1564 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1566 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1567 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1568 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1570 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1571 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1572 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1573 other representation.
1575 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1576 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1579 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1581 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1582 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1583 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1585 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1586 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1587 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1589 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1591 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1592 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1593 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1594 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1595 to display the search result.
1597 More flexible handling of header visibility
1599 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1600 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1601 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1602 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1603 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1604 with the 'h' keybinding.
1606 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1607 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1608 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1610 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1612 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1614 Customizable formatting of search results
1616 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1617 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1618 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1620 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1622 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1624 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1629 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1631 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1632 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1633 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1634 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1640 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1642 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1643 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1645 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1647 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1648 accept are now all accepted.
1653 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1655 Better display of output from failed tests
1657 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1658 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1660 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1661 ========================
1663 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1664 detailed release notes this time!
1666 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1667 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1669 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1670 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1671 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1672 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1679 Better guessing of From: header
1681 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1682 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1683 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1684 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1685 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1688 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1690 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1691 guaranteed to match all messages.
1693 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1695 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1696 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1697 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1698 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1699 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1702 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1705 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1706 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1707 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1708 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1713 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1715 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1716 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1717 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1718 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1720 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1722 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1724 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1725 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1726 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1728 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1730 Previously, the user might see:
1732 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1736 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1738 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1739 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1740 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1741 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1743 Emacs client features
1744 ---------------------
1746 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1748 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1749 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1750 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1751 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1752 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1754 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1757 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1758 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1759 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1760 search with the '*' binding.
1762 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1764 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1765 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1768 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1770 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1771 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1772 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1774 Build-system features
1775 ---------------------
1777 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1779 Add support to configure for many standard options
1781 We include actual support for:
1783 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1785 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1787 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1788 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1790 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1791 separate "make install-emacs"
1793 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1795 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1796 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1797 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1799 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1802 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1803 ========================
1805 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1807 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1808 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1810 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1811 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1812 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1813 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1814 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1815 tags from messages in a thread.
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