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
354 buttonized id: links.
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 ===========================
392 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
393 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
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 be
414 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
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 limit
426 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) option.
433 New emacs UI features
434 ---------------------
436 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
438 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
439 starting with "tag:".
441 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
443 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
444 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
446 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
448 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
450 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
452 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
453 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
458 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
460 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
462 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
463 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
464 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
465 requires a database rebuild:
467 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
468 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
470 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
472 New collection of add-on tools
473 ------------------------------
475 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
476 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
477 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
480 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
482 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
483 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
484 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
486 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
487 ========================
489 New, general features
490 ---------------------
492 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
494 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
495 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
496 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
497 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
498 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
505 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
506 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
508 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
512 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
513 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
514 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
517 Python bindings changes
518 -----------------------
520 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
522 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
523 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
524 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
525 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
526 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
527 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
529 Ruby bindings changes
530 ---------------------
532 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
533 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
534 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
535 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
540 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
542 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
543 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
545 Reply formatting cleanup
546 ------------------------
548 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
549 MIME parts are being suppressed.
551 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
552 ========================
554 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
556 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
557 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
558 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
559 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
562 Improved Build system portability
564 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
565 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
566 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
568 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
570 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
572 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
574 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
575 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
576 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
578 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
579 ========================
581 Vim interface improvements
582 --------------------------
584 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
586 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
587 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
588 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
589 * fix from list reformatting in search view
590 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
592 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
594 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
595 * fix compose temp file name
597 Python Bindings changes
598 -----------------------
600 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
602 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
603 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
605 Build-System improvements
606 ------------------------
608 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
610 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
613 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
614 ==========================
619 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
621 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
622 people running gcc 4.4.5.
624 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
625 =======================
626 New, general features
627 ---------------------
628 Folder-based searching
630 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
631 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
632 storage). The syntax is as follows:
636 For example, one might use things such as:
642 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
643 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
645 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
646 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
647 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
648 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
650 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
651 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
652 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
655 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
656 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
658 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
662 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
663 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
664 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
666 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
668 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
669 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
671 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
672 notmuch will receive these tags.
674 New command-line features
675 -------------------------
676 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
678 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
679 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
681 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
683 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
684 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
685 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
687 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
689 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
690 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
691 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
692 which parts a signature part applies).
694 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
696 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
697 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
698 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
699 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
700 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
703 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
705 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
706 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
707 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
708 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
709 by translating it internally to the new call.
711 Performance improvements
712 ------------------------
713 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
715 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
716 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
717 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
719 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
720 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
722 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
724 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
725 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
726 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
728 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
729 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
730 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
731 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
733 Faster initial indexing
735 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
736 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
737 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
739 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
741 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
742 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
743 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
744 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
746 New emacs-interface features
747 ----------------------------
749 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
751 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
752 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
753 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
754 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
755 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
756 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
758 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
760 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
761 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
762 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
763 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
765 User-selectable From address
767 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
768 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
769 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
770 will prompt for the from address to use.
772 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
773 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
774 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
776 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
777 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
778 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
781 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
783 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
784 its parent, the subject is not shown.
786 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
788 When a message contains a line looking something like:
790 ----- Original Message -----
792 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
793 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
794 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
795 citations work much like conventional citations.
797 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
799 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
800 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
801 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
802 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
803 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
805 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
806 Notmuch After Tag Hook
808 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
810 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
811 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
812 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
814 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
816 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
817 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
818 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
819 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
820 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
822 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
824 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
827 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
829 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
831 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
832 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
834 Vim interface improvements
835 --------------------------
836 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
838 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
839 * Implementing archive in show view
840 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
841 * Add delete commands
844 Bindings improvements
845 ---------------------
846 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
848 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
849 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
851 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
852 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
855 - Message().get_filenames(),
856 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
857 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
859 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
860 These allow, for example:
863 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
865 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
870 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
871 Use len(list(Messages())) or
872 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
874 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
876 New build-system features
877 -------------------------
878 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
880 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
881 the configure script from some other directory:
888 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
890 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
891 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
892 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
893 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
894 manual invocation of configure.
896 New test-suite feature
897 ----------------------
898 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
900 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
901 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
902 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
903 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
904 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
907 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
909 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
910 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
911 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
912 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
913 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
914 are updated to take advantage of this.
916 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
918 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
919 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
920 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
921 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
926 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
928 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
929 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
930 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
932 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
934 This fixed a bug where a search for:
936 to:user@elsewhere.com
938 would incorrectly match a message sent:
940 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
942 Fix --output=json when search has no results
944 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
945 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
946 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
949 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
950 from the Received headers in some cases.
952 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
953 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
955 Cleaned up several memory leaks
957 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
959 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
961 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
962 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
963 interface and were never intended to be exported.
965 Emacs-interface bug fixes
966 -------------------------
967 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
969 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
970 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
971 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
973 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
975 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
976 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
977 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
980 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
982 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
983 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
984 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
985 fixed to avoid this bug.
987 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
989 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
990 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
992 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
993 ========================
994 New, general features
995 ---------------------
996 Maildir-flag synchronization
998 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
999 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1008 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1010 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1011 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1012 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1013 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1015 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1016 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1017 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1018 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
1021 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1023 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1024 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1025 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1027 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1028 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1030 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1031 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1033 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1034 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1035 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1037 New library features
1038 --------------------
1039 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1041 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1042 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1043 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1044 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1046 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1047 message with the new function:
1049 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1051 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1052 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1053 all available filenames for a given message.
1055 New command-line features
1056 -------------------------
1057 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1059 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1060 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1061 access to the mail store itself.
1063 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1064 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1065 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1066 name of a script containing:
1068 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1070 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1071 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1076 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1078 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1080 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1082 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1083 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1084 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1085 now produces nothing).
1087 Emacs interface improvements
1088 ----------------------------
1089 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1091 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1093 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1095 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1097 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1099 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1101 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1102 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1103 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1104 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1105 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1106 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1107 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1109 Vim interface improvements
1110 --------------------------
1111 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1113 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1114 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1119 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1121 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1122 ========================
1123 New command-line features
1124 -------------------------
1125 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1127 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1128 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1129 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1131 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1132 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1133 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1134 scripts. For example:
1136 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1137 <operations-on> "$file"
1140 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1142 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1143 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1144 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1145 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1146 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1147 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1149 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1151 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1152 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1153 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1154 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1156 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1158 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1159 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1160 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1161 default rather than Bcc.
1163 New library features
1164 --------------------
1165 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1167 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1168 notmuch_query_t object.
1172 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1174 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1175 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1176 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1177 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1178 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1179 notmuch customize interface.
1181 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1183 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1184 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1185 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1186 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1188 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1190 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1191 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1192 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1193 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1195 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1197 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1198 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1199 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1200 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1201 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1202 notmuch customize interface.
1204 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1206 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1207 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1208 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1209 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1210 notmuch customize interface.
1212 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1214 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1215 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1216 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1217 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1220 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1222 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1223 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1224 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1227 New build-system features
1228 -------------------------
1229 Various portability fixes have been applied
1231 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1232 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1233 more portable than ever before.
1235 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1237 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1238 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1239 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1241 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1242 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1243 automatically run ldconfig.
1245 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1246 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1247 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1249 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1250 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1251 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1252 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1254 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1256 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1257 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1258 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1259 used in the resulting Makefile.
1261 New test-suite features
1262 -----------------------
1263 New modularization of test suite.
1265 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1266 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1267 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1268 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1269 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1270 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1271 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1272 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1274 New testing of emacs interface.
1276 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1277 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1278 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1279 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1280 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1281 database via the FCC setting.
1285 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1287 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1288 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1289 persistent error of the form:
1291 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1293 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1294 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1296 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1298 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1299 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1300 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1302 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1304 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1305 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1306 parsing the notmuch results).
1308 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1310 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1312 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1313 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1314 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1318 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1320 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1321 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1322 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1323 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1324 the emacs interface.
1326 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1328 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1329 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1330 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1332 Python-binding fixes
1333 --------------------
1334 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1336 Debian-specific fixes
1337 ---------------------
1338 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1340 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1341 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1342 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1345 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1346 ==========================
1349 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1351 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1352 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1353 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1354 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1356 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1358 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1359 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1360 want notmuch to crash.
1364 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1366 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1367 directory does not exist.
1371 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1373 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1374 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1376 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1377 ========================
1378 New command-line features
1379 -------------------------
1380 User-configurable tags for new messages
1382 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1383 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1384 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1385 to specify this value.
1387 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1389 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1390 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1391 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1393 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1395 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1396 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1398 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1400 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1401 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1402 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1403 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1404 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1407 Indication of author names that match a search
1409 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1410 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1411 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1412 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1413 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1414 messages in the thread are listed first.
1416 New: Python bindings
1417 --------------------
1418 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1419 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1420 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1421 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1423 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1424 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1425 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1428 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1429 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1430 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1432 Emacs interface improvements
1433 ----------------------------
1434 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1436 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1437 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1438 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1439 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1440 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1441 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1442 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1443 but without any of the disadvantages).
1445 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1446 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1447 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1450 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1451 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1452 recommend instead running something like:
1454 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1456 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1457 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1458 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1461 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1463 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1464 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1465 tweaked by the user.
1467 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1468 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1469 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1472 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1473 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1474 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1477 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1479 This support currently relies on an external program,
1480 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1481 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1482 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1483 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1484 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1487 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1488 notmuch) is available via:
1490 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1492 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1493 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1494 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1496 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1498 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1499 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1500 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1501 making this automatic in a future release.
1503 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1505 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1506 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1507 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1508 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1509 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1510 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1513 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1515 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1516 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1517 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1519 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1521 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1522 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1523 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1525 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1526 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1527 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1528 other representation.
1530 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1531 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1534 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1536 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1537 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1538 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1540 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1541 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1542 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1544 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1546 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1547 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1548 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1549 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1550 to display the search result.
1552 More flexible handling of header visibility
1554 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1555 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1556 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1557 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1558 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1559 with the 'h' keybinding.
1561 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1562 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1563 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1565 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1567 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1569 Customizable formatting of search results
1571 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1572 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1573 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1575 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1577 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1579 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1583 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1585 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1586 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1587 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1588 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1593 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1595 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1596 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1598 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1600 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1601 accept are now all accepted.
1605 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1607 Better display of output from failed tests.
1609 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1610 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1612 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1613 ========================
1614 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1615 detailed release notes this time!
1617 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1618 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1620 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1621 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1622 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1623 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1629 Better guessing of From: header.
1631 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1632 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1633 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1634 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1635 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1638 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1640 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1641 guaranteed to match all messages.
1643 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1645 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1646 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1647 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1648 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1649 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1652 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1655 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1656 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1657 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1658 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1662 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1664 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1665 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1666 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1667 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1669 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1671 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1673 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1674 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1675 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1677 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1679 Previously, the user might see:
1681 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1685 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1687 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1688 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1689 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1690 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1692 Emacs client features
1693 ---------------------
1694 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1696 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1697 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1698 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1699 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1700 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1702 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1705 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1706 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1707 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1708 search with the '*' binding.
1710 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1712 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1713 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1716 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1718 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1719 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1720 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1722 Build-system features
1723 ---------------------
1724 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1726 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1728 We include actual support for:
1730 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1732 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1734 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1735 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1737 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1738 separate "make install-emacs".
1740 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1742 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1743 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1744 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1746 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1749 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1750 ========================
1751 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1753 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1754 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1756 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1757 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1758 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1759 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1760 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1761 tags from messages in a thread.
1768 indent-tabs-mode: nil