1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format.
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
12 =========================
14 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
15 ---------------------------------------
17 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
18 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
19 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
20 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
21 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
22 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
23 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
27 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
28 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
30 Command-Line Interface
31 ----------------------
33 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
35 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
36 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
37 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
38 print for each message.
40 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
41 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
42 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
43 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
45 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
47 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
48 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
49 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
51 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
53 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
54 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
55 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
56 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
58 `notmuch compact` command
60 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
61 functionality through a more convenient interface than
62 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
63 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
64 move the compacted database into place.
69 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
71 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
72 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
73 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
74 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
75 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
80 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
82 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
83 search, show and tree mode itself)
85 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
88 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
89 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
91 Customising `notmuch-tree`
93 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
94 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
95 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
96 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
97 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
98 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
99 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
101 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
103 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
104 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
105 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
106 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
107 thread when the search was performed.
109 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
111 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
112 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
113 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
115 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
117 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
118 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
121 Built-in help improvements
123 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
124 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
125 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
127 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
129 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
130 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
131 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
133 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
135 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
136 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
138 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
140 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
141 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
142 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
143 to move some of them to the common keymap.
145 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
147 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
148 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
149 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
150 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
152 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
154 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
155 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
156 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
158 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
160 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
161 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
162 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
164 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
166 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
167 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
168 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
169 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
170 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
172 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
174 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
175 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
176 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
177 the body part of the message.
182 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
183 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
184 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
186 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
187 =========================
189 Command-Line Interface
190 ----------------------
192 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
194 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
195 folder and notmuch index.
197 `notmuch count --batch` option
199 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
200 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
202 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
204 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
205 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
206 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
209 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
211 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
212 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
213 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
214 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
215 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
218 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
220 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
221 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
223 Top level option to specify configuration file
225 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
226 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
228 Bash command-line completion
230 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
231 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
232 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
233 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
234 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
235 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
236 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
237 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
238 bash-completion package.
240 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
245 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
247 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
248 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
249 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
250 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
251 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
252 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
253 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
254 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
256 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
258 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
259 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
260 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
262 Key bindings for next/previous thread
264 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
265 previous thread in the search results.
267 Better handling of errors in search buffers
269 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
270 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
272 Faster search and show
274 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
275 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
276 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
277 threads should show faster.
281 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
282 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
283 in question was now removed from this release.
288 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
289 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
294 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
296 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
297 ===========================
302 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
304 Internal test framework changes
305 -------------------------------
307 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
310 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
311 ===========================
313 Internal test framework changes
314 -------------------------------
316 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
317 build failures in non-interactive environments.
319 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
320 =========================
325 Date range search support
327 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
328 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
329 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
330 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
331 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
334 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
336 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
337 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
338 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
339 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
340 but may be removed in a future release.
342 Command-Line Interface
343 ----------------------
345 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
347 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
348 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
350 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
352 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
353 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
354 officially deprecated.
356 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
358 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
359 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
360 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
362 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
364 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
365 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
368 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
369 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
372 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
374 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
375 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
376 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
378 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
380 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
381 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
382 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
384 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
386 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
387 output separated by null characters rather than newline
388 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
389 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
394 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
396 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
397 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
398 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
399 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
401 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
403 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
404 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
405 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
406 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
407 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
408 the behavior of this, see
409 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
410 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
412 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
413 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
414 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
416 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
418 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
419 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
422 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
424 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
425 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
426 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
427 simply displayed in place of the message.
429 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
431 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
432 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
434 Improved text/calendar content handling
436 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
437 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
438 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
439 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
441 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
443 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
444 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
445 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
446 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
448 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
450 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
451 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
452 for HTML email containing images.
454 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
456 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
458 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
460 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
463 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
465 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
466 the point where it was.
468 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
470 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
471 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
472 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
473 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
474 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
476 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
478 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
479 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
480 thread instead of the message id.
482 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
483 -----------------------------
485 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
486 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
487 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
488 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
489 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
490 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
491 further details and installation.
496 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
498 Internal test framework changes
499 -------------------------------
501 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
503 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
504 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
505 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
506 can result in buggy behavior.
508 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
509 =========================
514 Maildir tag synchronization
516 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
517 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
518 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
519 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
520 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
521 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
524 Command-Line Interface
525 ----------------------
527 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
528 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
529 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
530 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
531 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
537 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
539 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
541 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
542 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
543 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
545 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
547 It is now possible to embed newlines in
548 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
551 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
553 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
554 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
555 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
556 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
557 inside the result or message.
559 Search now uses the JSON format internally
561 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
562 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
564 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
565 user-specified formatting
567 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
568 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
569 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
570 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
571 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
573 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
574 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
576 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
577 ===========================
582 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
583 compilation error for this contrib package.
585 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
586 ===========================
591 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
593 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
594 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
595 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
596 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
598 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
599 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
602 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
603 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
604 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
605 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
608 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
610 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
613 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
614 =========================
616 Command-Line Interface
617 ----------------------
621 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
622 for a reply message and full information about the original message
623 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
624 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
626 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
627 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
628 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
629 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
633 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
634 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
636 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
637 tag in your query, for example:
639 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
641 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
642 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
644 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
645 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
647 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
649 Raw show format changes
651 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
652 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
653 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
654 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
655 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
656 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
657 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
658 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
660 Listing configuration items
662 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
668 Changes to tagging interface
670 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
671 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
672 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
673 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
674 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
675 for more information.
677 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
678 may need to update in custom configurations.
680 Reply improvement using the JSON format
682 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
683 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
684 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
685 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
688 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
689 -----------------------------
691 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
692 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
693 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
694 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
695 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
696 contrib/ from now on.
701 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
702 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
704 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
705 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
707 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
708 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
709 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
711 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
712 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
714 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
715 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
716 returning the new database object or directory object.
723 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
724 compatible with go 1.
726 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
727 =========================
729 Command-Line Interface
730 ----------------------
734 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
735 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
736 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
737 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
739 Mail store folder/file ignore
741 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
742 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
743 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
745 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
746 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
748 Unified help and manual pages
750 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
751 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
754 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
756 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
757 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
765 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
766 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
767 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
768 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
770 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
772 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
773 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
775 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
778 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
779 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
780 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
782 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
784 should be changed to:
786 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
788 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
790 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
791 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
793 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
795 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
796 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
797 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
798 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
799 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
800 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
804 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
805 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
806 of Mailing List Archives.
808 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
810 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
811 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
814 Show view archiving key binding changes
816 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
817 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
818 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
819 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
820 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
823 Support text/calendar MIME type
825 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
828 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
830 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
831 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
832 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
833 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
835 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
837 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
838 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
839 messages blue by default in the search view.
843 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
844 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
851 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
854 Python bindings changes
855 -----------------------
857 Python 3.2 compatibility
859 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
861 Added missing unicode conversions
863 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
864 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
865 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
870 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
872 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
873 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
874 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
875 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
876 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
878 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
879 ===========================
884 Fix error handling in python bindings
886 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
887 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
888 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
889 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
891 Quote MML tags in replies
893 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
894 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
895 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
896 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
897 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
898 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
899 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
900 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
902 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
903 =========================
905 Command-Line Interface
906 ----------------------
910 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
911 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
912 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
913 importing new messages into the database.
915 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
917 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
918 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
919 sometimes. This is now fixed.
924 Automatic tag query optimization
926 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
927 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
928 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
930 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
932 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
933 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
934 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
939 Reduction of memory leaks
941 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
942 and fixed in this release.
949 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
950 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
951 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
954 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
956 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
957 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
958 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
961 Improvements in saved search management
963 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
964 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
965 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
967 Hooks for notmuch-hello
969 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
970 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
971 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
973 New face for crypto parts headers
975 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
976 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
977 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
980 Use space as default thousands separator
982 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
983 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
984 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
986 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
989 New function notmuch-show-advance
991 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
992 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
993 be bound to SPC with:
995 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
997 Various performance improvements
1002 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1003 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1006 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1007 ===========================
1012 Fix crash in python bindings
1014 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1015 for some, but not all users.
1017 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1018 ===========================
1023 Fix `--help` argument
1025 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1026 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1027 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1029 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1030 =========================
1032 New build and testing features
1033 ------------------------------
1035 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1036 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1037 prerequisites is improved.
1039 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1041 New command-line features
1042 -------------------------
1044 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1046 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1047 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1050 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1052 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1053 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1054 favour of using stdout.
1056 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1058 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1059 limit the number of results shown.
1061 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1063 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1064 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1067 New emacs UI features
1068 ---------------------
1070 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1072 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1073 starting with "tag:".
1075 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1077 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1078 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1080 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1082 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1084 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1086 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1087 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1092 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1094 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1096 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1097 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1098 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1099 requires a database rebuild:
1101 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1102 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1104 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1106 New collection of add-on tools
1107 ------------------------------
1109 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1110 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1111 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1114 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1116 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1117 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1118 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1120 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1121 ========================
1123 New, general features
1124 ---------------------
1126 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1128 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1129 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1130 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1131 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1132 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1139 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1140 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1142 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1146 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1147 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1148 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1151 Python bindings changes
1152 -----------------------
1154 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1156 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1157 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1158 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1159 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1160 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1161 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1163 Ruby bindings changes
1164 ---------------------
1166 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1167 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1168 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1169 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1174 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1176 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1177 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1179 Reply formatting cleanup
1180 ------------------------
1182 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1183 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1185 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1186 ========================
1188 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1190 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1191 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1192 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1193 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1196 Improved Build system portability
1198 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1199 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1200 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1202 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1204 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1206 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1208 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1209 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1210 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1212 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1213 ========================
1215 Vim interface improvements
1216 --------------------------
1218 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1220 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1221 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1222 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1223 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1224 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1226 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1228 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1229 * fix compose temp file name
1231 Python Bindings changes
1232 -----------------------
1234 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1236 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1237 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1239 Build-System improvements
1240 -------------------------
1242 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1244 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1247 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1248 ==========================
1253 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1255 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1256 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1258 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1259 =======================
1261 New, general features
1262 ---------------------
1264 Folder-based searching
1266 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1267 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1268 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1272 For example, one might use things such as:
1278 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1279 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1281 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1282 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1283 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1284 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1286 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1287 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1288 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1291 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1292 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1294 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1296 Support for PGP/MIME
1298 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1299 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1300 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1302 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1304 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1305 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1307 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1308 notmuch will receive these tags.
1310 New command-line features
1311 -------------------------
1313 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1315 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1316 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1318 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1320 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1321 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1322 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1324 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1326 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1327 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1328 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1329 which parts a signature part applies).
1331 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1333 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1334 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1335 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1336 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1337 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1340 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1342 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1343 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1344 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1345 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1346 by translating it internally to the new call.
1348 Performance improvements
1349 ------------------------
1351 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1353 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1354 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1355 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1357 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1358 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1360 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1362 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1363 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1364 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1366 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1367 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1368 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1369 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1371 Faster initial indexing
1373 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1374 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1375 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1377 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1379 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1380 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1381 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1382 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1384 New emacs-interface features
1385 ----------------------------
1387 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1389 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1390 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1391 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1392 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1393 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1394 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1396 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1398 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1399 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1400 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1401 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1403 User-selectable From address
1405 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1406 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1407 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1408 will prompt for the from address to use.
1410 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1411 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1412 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1414 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1415 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1416 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1419 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1421 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1422 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1424 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1426 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1428 ----- Original Message -----
1430 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1431 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1432 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1433 citations work much like conventional citations.
1435 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1437 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1438 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1439 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1440 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1441 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1443 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1444 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1446 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1448 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1449 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1450 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1452 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1454 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1455 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1456 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1457 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1458 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1460 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1462 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1465 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1467 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1469 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1471 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1474 Vim interface improvements
1475 --------------------------
1477 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1479 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1480 * Implementing archive in show view
1481 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1482 * Add delete commands
1485 Bindings improvements
1486 ---------------------
1488 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1490 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1491 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1493 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1495 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1499 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1500 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1501 `list(Messages)` works now
1502 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1504 These allow, for example:
1506 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1508 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1510 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1516 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1518 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1521 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1523 New build-system features
1524 -------------------------
1526 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1528 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1529 the configure script from some other directory:
1536 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1538 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1539 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1540 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1541 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1542 manual invocation of configure.
1544 New test-suite feature
1545 ----------------------
1547 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1549 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1550 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1551 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1552 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1553 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1556 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1558 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1559 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1560 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1561 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1562 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1563 are updated to take advantage of this.
1565 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1567 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1568 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1569 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1570 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1576 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1578 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1579 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1580 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1582 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1584 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1586 to:user@elsewhere.com
1588 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1590 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1592 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1594 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1595 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1596 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1599 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1600 from the Received headers in some cases
1602 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1603 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1605 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1607 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1609 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1611 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1612 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1613 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1615 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1616 -------------------------
1618 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1620 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1621 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1622 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1624 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1626 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1627 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1628 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1631 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1633 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1634 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1635 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1636 fixed to avoid this bug.
1638 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1640 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1641 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1643 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1644 ========================
1646 New, general features
1647 ---------------------
1649 Maildir-flag synchronization
1651 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1652 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1661 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1663 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1664 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1665 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1666 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1668 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1669 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1670 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1671 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1674 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1676 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1677 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1678 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1680 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1681 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1683 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1684 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1686 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1687 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1688 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1690 New library features
1691 --------------------
1693 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1695 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1696 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1697 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1698 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1700 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1701 message with the new function:
1703 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1705 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1706 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1707 over all available filenames for a given message.
1709 New command-line features
1710 -------------------------
1712 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1714 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1715 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1716 access to the mail store itself.
1718 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1719 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1720 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1721 name of a script containing:
1723 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1725 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1726 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1732 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1734 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1736 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1738 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1739 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1740 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1741 now produces nothing).
1743 Emacs interface improvements
1744 ----------------------------
1746 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1748 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1750 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1752 Display current thread subject in a header line
1754 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1756 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1758 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1759 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1760 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1761 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1762 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1763 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1764 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1766 Vim interface improvements
1767 --------------------------
1769 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1771 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1772 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1778 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1780 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1781 ========================
1783 New command-line features
1784 -------------------------
1786 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1788 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1789 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1790 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1792 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1793 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1794 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1795 scripts. For example:
1797 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1798 <operations-on> "$file"
1801 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1803 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1804 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1805 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1806 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1807 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1808 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1810 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1812 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1813 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1814 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1815 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1817 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1819 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1820 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1821 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1822 default rather than Bcc.
1824 New library features
1825 --------------------
1827 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1829 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1830 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1835 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1837 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1838 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1839 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1840 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1841 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1842 notmuch customize interface.
1844 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1846 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1847 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1848 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1849 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1851 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1853 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1854 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1855 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1856 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1858 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1860 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1861 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1862 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1863 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1864 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1865 notmuch customize interface.
1867 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1869 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1870 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1871 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1872 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1873 notmuch customize interface.
1875 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1877 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1878 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1879 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1880 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1883 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1885 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1886 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1887 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1890 New build-system features
1891 -------------------------
1893 Various portability fixes have been applied
1895 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1896 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1897 more portable than ever before.
1899 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1901 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1902 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1903 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1905 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1906 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1907 automatically run ldconfig.
1909 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1910 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1911 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1913 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1914 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1915 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1916 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1918 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1920 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1921 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1922 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1923 used in the resulting Makefile.
1925 New test-suite features
1926 -----------------------
1928 New modularization of test suite
1930 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1931 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1932 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1933 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1934 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1935 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1936 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1937 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1939 New testing of emacs interface
1941 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1942 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1943 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1944 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1945 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1946 database via the FCC setting.
1951 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1953 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1954 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1955 persistent error of the form:
1957 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1959 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1960 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1962 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1964 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1965 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1966 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1968 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1970 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1971 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1972 parsing the notmuch results).
1974 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1976 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1979 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1980 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1981 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1986 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1988 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1989 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1990 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1991 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1992 the emacs interface.
1994 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1996 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1997 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1998 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2000 Python-binding fixes
2001 --------------------
2003 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2005 Debian-specific fixes
2006 ---------------------
2008 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2010 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2011 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2012 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2015 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2016 ==========================
2021 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2023 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2024 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2025 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2026 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2028 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2030 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2031 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2032 want notmuch to crash.
2037 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2039 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2040 directory does not exist
2045 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2047 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2048 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2050 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2051 ========================
2053 New command-line features
2054 -------------------------
2056 User-configurable tags for new messages
2058 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2059 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2060 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2061 to specify this value.
2063 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2065 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2066 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2067 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2069 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2071 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2072 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2074 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2076 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2077 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2078 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2079 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2080 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2083 Indication of author names that match a search
2085 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2086 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2087 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2088 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2089 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2090 messages in the thread are listed first.
2092 New: Python bindings
2093 --------------------
2095 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2096 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2097 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2098 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2100 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2101 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2102 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2105 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2106 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2107 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2109 Emacs interface improvements
2110 ----------------------------
2112 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2114 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2115 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2116 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2117 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2118 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2119 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2120 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2121 but without any of the disadvantages).
2123 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2124 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2125 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2128 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2129 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2130 instead running something like:
2132 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2134 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2135 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2136 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2139 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2141 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2142 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2143 tweaked by the user.
2145 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2146 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2147 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2150 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2151 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2152 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2155 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2157 This support currently relies on an external program,
2158 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2159 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2160 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2161 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2162 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2165 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2166 notmuch) is available via:
2168 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2170 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2171 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2172 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2174 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2176 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2177 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2178 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2179 making this automatic in a future release.
2181 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2183 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2184 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2185 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2186 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2187 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2188 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2191 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2193 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2194 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2195 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2197 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2199 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2200 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2201 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2203 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2204 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2205 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2206 other representation.
2208 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2209 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2212 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2214 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2215 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2216 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2218 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2219 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2220 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2222 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2224 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2225 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2226 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2227 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2228 to display the search result.
2230 More flexible handling of header visibility
2232 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2233 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2234 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2235 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2236 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2237 with the 'h' keybinding.
2239 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2240 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2241 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2243 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2245 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2247 Customizable formatting of search results
2249 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2250 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2251 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2253 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2255 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2257 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2262 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2264 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2265 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2266 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2267 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2273 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2275 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2276 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2278 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2280 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2281 accept are now all accepted.
2286 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2288 Better display of output from failed tests
2290 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2291 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2293 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2294 ========================
2296 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2297 detailed release notes this time!
2299 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2300 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2302 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2303 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2304 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2305 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2312 Better guessing of From: header
2314 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2315 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2316 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2317 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2318 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2321 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2323 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2324 guaranteed to match all messages.
2326 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2328 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2329 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2330 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2331 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2332 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2335 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2338 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2339 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2340 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2341 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2346 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2348 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2349 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2350 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2351 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2353 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2355 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2357 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2358 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2359 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2361 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2363 Previously, the user might see:
2365 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2369 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2371 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2372 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2373 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2374 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2376 Emacs client features
2377 ---------------------
2379 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2381 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2382 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2383 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2384 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2385 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2387 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2390 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2391 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2392 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2393 search with the '*' binding.
2395 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2397 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2398 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2401 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2403 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2404 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2405 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2407 Build-system features
2408 ---------------------
2410 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2412 Add support to configure for many standard options
2414 We include actual support for:
2416 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2418 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2420 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2421 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2423 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2424 separate "make install-emacs"
2426 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2428 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2429 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2430 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2432 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2435 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2436 ========================
2438 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2440 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2441 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2443 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2444 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2445 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2446 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2447 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2448 tags from messages in a thread.
2455 indent-tabs-mode: nil