1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
9 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
10 parts are now included in replies.
12 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
13 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
14 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
15 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
17 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
19 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
24 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
25 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
26 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
32 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
33 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
34 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
35 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
36 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
37 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
39 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
40 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
41 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
42 report-generating script.
47 `nmbug-status` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
48 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
50 `nmbug-status` now supports `meta.message-url` to override the Gmane
51 template. For example, you can use:
55 "message-url": "https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!search/messageid$3A%22{message-id}%22"
61 To link to messages in the [opencontainers.org Google
62 Groups](https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!overview).
64 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
65 =========================
70 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
73 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
75 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
76 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
77 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
79 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
82 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
83 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
84 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
86 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
88 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
89 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
90 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
91 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
92 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
93 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
98 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
99 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
102 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
105 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
107 Command Line Interface
108 ----------------------
110 Database revision tracking
112 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
113 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
114 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
115 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
117 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
119 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
120 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
121 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
122 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
123 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
124 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
125 manual page for further information.
130 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
132 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
133 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
135 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
137 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
138 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
139 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
141 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
143 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
145 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
146 customization as well.
148 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
150 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
152 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
154 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
156 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
157 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
158 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
159 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
161 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
163 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
164 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
165 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
166 this variable to 10000.
171 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
172 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
174 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
176 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
177 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
178 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
179 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
180 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
181 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
182 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
183 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
184 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
187 Database revision tracking
189 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
190 query parser and the new function
191 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
193 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
197 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
198 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
199 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
200 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
205 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
207 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
208 ===========================
213 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
215 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
216 ===========================
221 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
223 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
224 =========================
226 Command-Line Interface
227 ----------------------
229 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
231 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
232 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
233 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
235 Path to gpg is now configurable
237 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
238 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
243 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
245 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
250 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
255 Support messages without Message-IDs.
260 Undeprecate single message mboxes
262 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
263 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
265 New error logging facility
267 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
268 output formerly printed to stderr.
270 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
272 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
274 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
276 Fix for rounding of seconds
281 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
283 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
284 docmumentation has been removed.
286 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
288 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
289 some material from the relicensed wiki.
294 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
295 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
296 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
301 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
302 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
303 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
304 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
305 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
306 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
309 git checkout config origin/config
311 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
313 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
314 =========================
319 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
320 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
321 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
322 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
323 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
324 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
325 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
327 Command-Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
332 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
333 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
334 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
335 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
336 script callers should still check the return value.
338 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
340 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
341 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
342 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
343 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
344 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
345 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
346 and returning success even if indexing fails).
348 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
350 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
351 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
352 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
354 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
356 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
357 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
358 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
359 currently unmaintained.
361 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
363 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
364 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
365 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
366 have at least `N` files associated with them.
368 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
370 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
371 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
372 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
373 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
374 count of duplicate addresses.
379 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
381 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
382 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
383 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
386 Improved handling of the unread tag
388 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
389 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
390 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
391 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
392 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
393 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
394 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
396 Expanded default saved search settings
398 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
399 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
401 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
403 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
404 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
405 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
407 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
409 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
410 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
411 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
412 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
413 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
414 the variable for details.
419 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
421 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
422 Representing these independently of the database version number will
423 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
424 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
426 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
428 Previously, library users were required to call
429 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
430 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
431 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
432 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
433 too out of date for that API.
435 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
437 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
438 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
439 atomic section will be aborted.
441 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
442 `notmuch_database_destroy`
444 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
446 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
447 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
448 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
449 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
450 messages into the same thread.
455 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
456 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
457 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
458 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
459 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
460 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
465 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
466 from the config file. Use something like:
470 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
471 "footer": "</body></html>",
480 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
485 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
486 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
487 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
489 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
490 ===========================
495 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
497 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
499 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
501 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
502 structure for signatures changed slightly.
504 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
506 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
509 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
510 ===========================
512 This is a bug fix and portability release.
517 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
519 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
521 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
523 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
525 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
531 Use --quick when starting emacs
533 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
535 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
537 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
539 Command-Line Interface
540 ----------------------
542 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
543 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
548 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
550 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
551 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
553 Fix for phrase indexing
555 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
556 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
557 will affect only newly indexed messages.
562 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
564 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
565 unintentionally removed.
567 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
568 =========================
573 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
574 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
575 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
576 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
577 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
578 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
579 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
580 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
581 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
587 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
589 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
590 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
591 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
592 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
593 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
594 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
595 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
596 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
598 There is a new `path:` search prefix
600 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
601 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
602 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
603 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
606 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
608 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
609 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
610 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
611 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
612 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
613 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
614 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
619 Notmuch database upgrade
621 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
622 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
623 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
624 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
625 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
626 released version of Notmuch before now.
628 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
630 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
631 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
632 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
633 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
635 Message header parsing changes
637 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
638 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
639 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
640 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
641 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
642 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
644 Command-Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
649 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
651 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
653 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
655 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
657 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
658 user does not want it.
660 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
662 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
663 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
664 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
665 support formatted output.
667 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
669 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
670 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
671 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
679 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
680 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
681 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
682 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
683 `~/.emacs` with these.
685 Changed format for saved searches
687 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
688 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
689 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
690 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
693 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
694 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
695 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
696 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
698 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
699 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
700 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
702 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
703 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
704 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
705 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
706 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
708 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
710 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
711 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
712 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
714 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
716 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
717 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
718 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
719 message had been unread).
721 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
722 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
723 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
724 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
726 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
727 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
728 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
730 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
731 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
732 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
733 to tags already present.
737 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
738 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
739 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
740 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
741 these differ from each other.
742 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
744 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
746 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
747 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
748 for these Emacs versions.
750 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
752 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
753 newlines before calling notmuch count.
755 Bug fixes for sender identities
757 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
758 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
759 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
761 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
763 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
764 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
765 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
766 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
768 Reply pushes mark before signature
770 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
771 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
772 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
774 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
776 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
777 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
783 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
784 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
786 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
787 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
788 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
789 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
791 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
792 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
793 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
794 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
795 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
797 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
799 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
800 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
802 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
803 =========================
805 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
806 ---------------------------------------
808 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
809 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
810 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
811 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
812 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
813 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
814 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
818 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
819 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
821 Command-Line Interface
822 ----------------------
824 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
826 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
827 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
828 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
829 print for each message.
831 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
832 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
833 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
834 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
836 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
838 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
839 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
840 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
842 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
844 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
845 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
846 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
847 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
849 `notmuch compact` command
851 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
852 functionality through a more convenient interface than
853 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
854 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
855 move the compacted database into place.
860 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
862 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
863 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
864 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
865 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
866 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
867 and multiple threads.
871 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
873 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
874 search, show and tree mode itself)
876 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
879 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
880 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
882 Customising `notmuch-tree`
884 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
885 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
886 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
887 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
888 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
889 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
890 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
892 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
894 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
895 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
896 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
897 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
898 thread when the search was performed.
900 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
902 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
903 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
904 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
906 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
908 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
909 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
912 Built-in help improvements
914 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
915 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
916 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
918 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
920 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
921 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
922 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
924 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
926 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
927 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
929 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
931 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
932 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
933 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
934 to move some of them to the common keymap.
936 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
938 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
939 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
940 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
941 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
943 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
945 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
946 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
947 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
949 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
951 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
952 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
953 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
955 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
957 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
958 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
959 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
960 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
961 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
963 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
965 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
966 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
967 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
968 the body part of the message.
973 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
974 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
975 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
977 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
978 =========================
980 Command-Line Interface
981 ----------------------
983 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
985 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
986 folder and notmuch index.
988 `notmuch count --batch` option
990 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
991 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
993 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
995 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
996 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
997 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1000 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1002 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1003 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1004 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1005 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1006 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1009 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1011 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1012 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1014 Top level option to specify configuration file
1016 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1017 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1019 Bash command-line completion
1021 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1022 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1023 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1024 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1025 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1026 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1027 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1028 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1029 bash-completion package.
1031 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1036 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1038 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1039 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1040 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1041 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1042 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1043 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1044 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1045 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1047 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1049 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1050 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1051 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1053 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1055 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1056 previous thread in the search results.
1058 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1060 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1061 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1063 Faster search and show
1065 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1066 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1067 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1068 threads should show faster.
1072 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1073 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1074 in question was now removed from this release.
1079 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1080 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1085 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1087 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1088 ===========================
1093 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1095 Internal test framework changes
1096 -------------------------------
1098 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1099 being unimplemented.
1101 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1102 ===========================
1104 Internal test framework changes
1105 -------------------------------
1107 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1108 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1110 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1111 =========================
1116 Date range search support
1118 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1119 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1120 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1121 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1122 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1125 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1127 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1128 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1129 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1130 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1131 but may be removed in a future release.
1133 Command-Line Interface
1134 ----------------------
1136 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1138 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1139 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1141 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1143 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1144 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1145 officially deprecated.
1147 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1149 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1150 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1151 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1153 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1155 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1156 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1159 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1160 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1161 dump/restore format.
1163 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1165 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1166 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1167 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1169 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1171 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1172 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1173 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1175 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1177 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1178 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1179 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1180 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1185 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1187 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1188 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1189 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1190 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1192 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1194 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1195 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1196 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1197 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1198 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1199 the behavior of this, see
1200 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1201 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1203 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1204 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1205 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1207 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1209 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1210 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1213 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1215 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1216 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1217 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1218 simply displayed in place of the message.
1220 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1222 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1223 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1225 Improved text/calendar content handling
1227 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1228 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1229 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1230 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1232 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1234 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1235 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1236 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1237 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1239 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1241 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1242 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1243 for HTML email containing images.
1245 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1247 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1249 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1251 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1254 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1256 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1257 the point where it was.
1259 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1261 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1262 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1263 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1264 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1265 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1267 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1269 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1270 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1271 thread instead of the message id.
1273 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1274 -----------------------------
1276 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1277 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1278 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1279 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1280 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1281 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1282 further details and installation.
1287 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1289 Internal test framework changes
1290 -------------------------------
1292 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1294 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1295 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1296 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1297 can result in buggy behavior.
1299 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1300 =========================
1305 Maildir tag synchronization
1307 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1308 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1309 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1310 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1311 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1312 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1315 Command-Line Interface
1316 ----------------------
1318 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1319 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1320 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1321 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1322 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1328 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1330 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1332 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1333 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1334 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1336 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1338 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1339 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1340 span multiple lines.
1342 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1344 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1345 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1346 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1347 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1348 inside the result or message.
1350 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1352 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1353 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1355 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1356 user-specified formatting
1358 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1359 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1360 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1361 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1362 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1364 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1365 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1367 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1368 ===========================
1373 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1374 compilation error for this contrib package.
1376 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1377 ===========================
1382 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1384 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1385 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1386 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1387 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1389 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1390 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1393 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1394 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1395 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1396 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1399 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1401 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1404 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1405 =========================
1407 Command-Line Interface
1408 ----------------------
1412 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1413 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1414 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1415 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1417 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1418 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1419 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1420 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1424 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1425 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1427 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1428 tag in your query, for example:
1430 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1432 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1433 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1435 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1436 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1438 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1440 Raw show format changes
1442 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1443 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1444 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1445 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1446 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1447 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1448 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1449 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1451 Listing configuration items
1453 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1459 Changes to tagging interface
1461 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1462 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1463 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1464 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1465 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1466 for more information.
1468 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1469 may need to update in custom configurations.
1471 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1473 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1474 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1475 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1476 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1479 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1480 -----------------------------
1482 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1483 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1484 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1485 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1486 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1487 contrib/ from now on.
1492 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1493 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1495 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1496 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1498 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1499 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1500 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1502 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1503 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1505 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1506 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1507 returning the new database object or directory object.
1514 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1515 compatible with go 1.
1517 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1518 =========================
1520 Command-Line Interface
1521 ----------------------
1525 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1526 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1527 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1528 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1530 Mail store folder/file ignore
1532 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1533 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1534 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1536 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1537 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1539 Unified help and manual pages
1541 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1542 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1545 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1547 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1548 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1556 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1557 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1558 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1559 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1561 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1563 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1564 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1566 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1569 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1570 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1571 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1573 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1575 should be changed to:
1577 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1579 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1581 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1582 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1584 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1586 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1587 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1588 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1589 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1590 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1591 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1595 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1596 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1597 of Mailing List Archives.
1599 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1601 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1602 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1605 Show view archiving key binding changes
1607 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1608 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1609 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1610 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1611 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1614 Support text/calendar MIME type
1616 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1619 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1621 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1622 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1623 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1624 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1626 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1628 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1629 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1630 messages blue by default in the search view.
1634 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1635 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1642 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1645 Python bindings changes
1646 -----------------------
1648 Python 3.2 compatibility
1650 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1652 Added missing unicode conversions
1654 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1655 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1656 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1661 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1663 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1664 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1665 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1666 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1667 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1669 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1670 ===========================
1675 Fix error handling in python bindings
1677 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1678 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1679 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1680 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1682 Quote MML tags in replies
1684 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1685 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1686 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1687 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1688 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1689 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1690 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1691 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1693 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1694 =========================
1696 Command-Line Interface
1697 ----------------------
1701 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1702 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1703 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1704 importing new messages into the database.
1706 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1708 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1709 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1710 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1715 Automatic tag query optimization
1717 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1718 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1719 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1721 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1723 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1724 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1725 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1730 Reduction of memory leaks
1732 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1733 and fixed in this release.
1740 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1741 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1742 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1745 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1747 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1748 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1749 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1752 Improvements in saved search management
1754 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1755 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1756 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1758 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1760 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1761 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1762 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1764 New face for crypto parts headers
1766 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1767 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1768 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1771 Use space as default thousands separator
1773 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1774 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1775 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1777 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1778 buttonized id: links
1780 New function notmuch-show-advance
1782 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1783 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1784 be bound to SPC with:
1786 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1788 Various performance improvements
1793 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1794 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1797 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1798 ===========================
1803 Fix crash in python bindings
1805 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1806 for some, but not all users.
1808 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1809 ===========================
1814 Fix `--help` argument
1816 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1817 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1818 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1820 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1821 =========================
1823 New build and testing features
1824 ------------------------------
1826 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1827 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1828 prerequisites is improved.
1830 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1832 New command-line features
1833 -------------------------
1835 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1837 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1838 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1841 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1843 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1844 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1845 favour of using stdout.
1847 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1849 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1850 limit the number of results shown.
1852 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1854 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1855 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1858 New emacs UI features
1859 ---------------------
1861 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1863 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1864 starting with "tag:".
1866 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1868 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1869 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1871 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1873 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1875 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1877 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1878 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1883 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1885 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1887 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1888 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1889 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1890 requires a database rebuild:
1892 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1893 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1895 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1897 New collection of add-on tools
1898 ------------------------------
1900 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1901 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1902 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1905 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1907 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1908 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1909 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1911 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1912 ========================
1914 New, general features
1915 ---------------------
1917 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1919 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1920 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1921 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1922 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1923 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1930 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1931 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1933 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1937 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1938 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1939 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1942 Python bindings changes
1943 -----------------------
1945 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1947 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1948 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1949 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1950 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1951 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1952 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1954 Ruby bindings changes
1955 ---------------------
1957 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1958 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1959 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1960 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1965 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1967 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1968 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1970 Reply formatting cleanup
1971 ------------------------
1973 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1974 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1976 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1977 ========================
1979 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1981 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1982 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1983 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1984 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1987 Improved Build system portability
1989 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1990 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1991 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1993 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1995 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1997 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1999 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2000 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2001 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2003 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2004 ========================
2006 Vim interface improvements
2007 --------------------------
2009 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2011 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2012 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2013 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2014 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2015 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2017 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2019 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2020 * fix compose temp file name
2022 Python Bindings changes
2023 -----------------------
2025 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2027 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2028 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2030 Build-System improvements
2031 -------------------------
2033 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2035 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2038 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2039 ==========================
2044 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2046 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2047 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2049 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2050 =======================
2052 New, general features
2053 ---------------------
2055 Folder-based searching
2057 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2058 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2059 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2063 For example, one might use things such as:
2069 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2070 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2072 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2073 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2074 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2075 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2077 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2078 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2079 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2082 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2083 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2085 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2087 Support for PGP/MIME
2089 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2090 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2091 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2093 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2095 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2096 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2098 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2099 notmuch will receive these tags.
2101 New command-line features
2102 -------------------------
2104 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2106 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2107 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2109 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2111 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2112 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2113 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2115 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2117 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2118 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2119 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2120 which parts a signature part applies).
2122 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2124 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2125 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2126 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2127 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2128 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2131 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2133 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2134 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2135 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2136 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2137 by translating it internally to the new call.
2139 Performance improvements
2140 ------------------------
2142 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2144 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2145 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2146 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2148 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2149 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2151 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2153 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2154 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2155 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2157 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2158 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2159 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2160 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2162 Faster initial indexing
2164 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2165 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2166 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2168 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2170 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2171 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2172 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2173 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2175 New emacs-interface features
2176 ----------------------------
2178 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2180 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2181 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2182 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2183 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2184 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2185 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2187 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2189 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2190 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2191 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2192 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2194 User-selectable From address
2196 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2197 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2198 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2199 will prompt for the from address to use.
2201 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2202 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2203 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2205 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2206 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2207 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2210 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2212 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2213 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2215 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2217 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2219 ----- Original Message -----
2221 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2222 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2223 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2224 citations work much like conventional citations.
2226 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2228 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2229 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2230 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2231 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2232 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2234 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2235 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2237 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2239 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2240 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2241 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2243 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2245 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2246 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2247 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2248 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2249 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2251 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2253 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2256 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2258 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2260 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2262 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2265 Vim interface improvements
2266 --------------------------
2268 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2270 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2271 * Implementing archive in show view
2272 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2273 * Add delete commands
2276 Bindings improvements
2277 ---------------------
2279 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2281 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2282 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2284 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2286 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2290 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2291 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2292 `list(Messages)` works now
2293 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2295 These allow, for example:
2297 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2299 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2301 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2307 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2309 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2312 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2314 New build-system features
2315 -------------------------
2317 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2319 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2320 the configure script from some other directory:
2327 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2329 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2330 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2331 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2332 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2333 manual invocation of configure.
2335 New test-suite feature
2336 ----------------------
2338 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2340 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2341 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2342 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2343 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2344 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2347 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2349 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2350 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2351 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2352 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2353 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2354 are updated to take advantage of this.
2356 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2358 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2359 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2360 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2361 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2367 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2369 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2370 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2371 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2373 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2375 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2377 to:user@elsewhere.com
2379 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2381 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2383 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2385 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2386 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2387 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2390 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2391 from the Received headers in some cases
2393 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2394 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2396 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2398 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2400 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2402 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2403 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2404 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2406 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2407 -------------------------
2409 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2411 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2412 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2413 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2415 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2417 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2418 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2419 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2422 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2424 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2425 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2426 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2427 fixed to avoid this bug.
2429 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2431 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2432 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2434 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2435 ========================
2437 New, general features
2438 ---------------------
2440 Maildir-flag synchronization
2442 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2443 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2452 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2454 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2455 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2456 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2457 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2459 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2460 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2461 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2462 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2465 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2467 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2468 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2469 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2471 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2472 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2474 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2475 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2477 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2478 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2479 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2481 New library features
2482 --------------------
2484 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2486 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2487 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2488 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2489 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2491 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2492 message with the new function:
2494 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2496 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2497 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2498 over all available filenames for a given message.
2500 New command-line features
2501 -------------------------
2503 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2505 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2506 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2507 access to the mail store itself.
2509 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2510 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2511 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2512 name of a script containing:
2514 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2516 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2517 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2523 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2525 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2527 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2529 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2530 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2531 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2532 now produces nothing).
2534 Emacs interface improvements
2535 ----------------------------
2537 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2539 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2541 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2543 Display current thread subject in a header line
2545 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2547 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2549 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2550 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2551 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2552 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2553 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2554 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2555 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2557 Vim interface improvements
2558 --------------------------
2560 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2562 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2563 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2569 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2571 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2572 ========================
2574 New command-line features
2575 -------------------------
2577 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2579 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2580 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2581 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2583 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2584 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2585 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2586 scripts. For example:
2588 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2589 <operations-on> "$file"
2592 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2594 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2595 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2596 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2597 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2598 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2599 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2601 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2603 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2604 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2605 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2606 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2608 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2610 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2611 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2612 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2613 default rather than Bcc.
2615 New library features
2616 --------------------
2618 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2620 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2621 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2626 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2628 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2629 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2630 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2631 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2632 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2633 notmuch customize interface.
2635 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2637 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2638 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2639 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2640 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2642 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2644 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2645 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2646 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2647 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2649 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2651 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2652 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2653 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2654 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2655 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2656 notmuch customize interface.
2658 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2660 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2661 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2662 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2663 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2664 notmuch customize interface.
2666 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2668 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2669 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2670 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2671 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2674 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2676 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2677 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2678 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2681 New build-system features
2682 -------------------------
2684 Various portability fixes have been applied
2686 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2687 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2688 more portable than ever before.
2690 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2692 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2693 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2694 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2696 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2697 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2698 automatically run ldconfig.
2700 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2701 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2702 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2704 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2705 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2706 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2707 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2709 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2711 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2712 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2713 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2714 used in the resulting Makefile.
2716 New test-suite features
2717 -----------------------
2719 New modularization of test suite
2721 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2722 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2723 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2724 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2725 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2726 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2727 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2728 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2730 New testing of emacs interface
2732 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2733 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2734 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2735 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2736 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2737 database via the FCC setting.
2742 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2744 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2745 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2746 persistent error of the form:
2748 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2750 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2751 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2753 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2755 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2756 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2757 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2759 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2761 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2762 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2763 parsing the notmuch results).
2765 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2767 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2770 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2771 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2772 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2777 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2779 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2780 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2781 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2782 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2783 the emacs interface.
2785 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2787 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2788 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2789 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2791 Python-binding fixes
2792 --------------------
2794 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2796 Debian-specific fixes
2797 ---------------------
2799 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2801 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2802 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2803 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2806 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2807 ==========================
2812 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2814 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2815 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2816 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2817 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2819 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2821 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2822 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2823 want notmuch to crash.
2828 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2830 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2831 directory does not exist
2836 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2838 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2839 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2841 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2842 ========================
2844 New command-line features
2845 -------------------------
2847 User-configurable tags for new messages
2849 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2850 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2851 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2852 to specify this value.
2854 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2856 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2857 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2858 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2860 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2862 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2863 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2865 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2867 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2868 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2869 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2870 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2871 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2874 Indication of author names that match a search
2876 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2877 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2878 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2879 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2880 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2881 messages in the thread are listed first.
2883 New: Python bindings
2884 --------------------
2886 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2887 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2888 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2889 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2891 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2892 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2893 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2896 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2897 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2898 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2900 Emacs interface improvements
2901 ----------------------------
2903 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2905 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2906 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2907 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2908 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2909 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2910 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2911 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2912 but without any of the disadvantages).
2914 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2915 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2916 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2919 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2920 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2921 instead running something like:
2923 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2925 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2926 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2927 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2930 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2932 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2933 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2934 tweaked by the user.
2936 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2937 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2938 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2941 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2942 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2943 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2946 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2948 This support currently relies on an external program,
2949 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2950 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2951 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2952 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2953 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2956 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2957 notmuch) is available via:
2959 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2961 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2962 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2963 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2965 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2967 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2968 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2969 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2970 making this automatic in a future release.
2972 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2974 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2975 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2976 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2977 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2978 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2979 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2982 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2984 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2985 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2986 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2988 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2990 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2991 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2992 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2994 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2995 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2996 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2997 other representation.
2999 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3000 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3003 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3005 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3006 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3007 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3009 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3010 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3011 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3013 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3015 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3016 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3017 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3018 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3019 to display the search result.
3021 More flexible handling of header visibility
3023 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3024 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3025 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3026 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3027 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3028 with the 'h' keybinding.
3030 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3031 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3032 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3034 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3036 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3038 Customizable formatting of search results
3040 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3041 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3042 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3044 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3046 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3048 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3053 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3055 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3056 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3057 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3058 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3064 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3066 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3067 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3069 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3071 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3072 accept are now all accepted.
3077 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3079 Better display of output from failed tests
3081 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3082 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3084 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3085 ========================
3087 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3088 detailed release notes this time!
3090 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3091 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3093 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3094 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3095 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3096 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3103 Better guessing of From: header
3105 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3106 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3107 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3108 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3109 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3112 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3114 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3115 guaranteed to match all messages.
3117 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3119 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3120 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3121 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3122 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3123 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3126 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3129 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3130 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3131 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3132 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3137 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3139 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3140 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3141 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3142 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3144 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3146 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3148 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3149 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3150 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3152 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3154 Previously, the user might see:
3156 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3160 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3162 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3163 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3164 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3165 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3167 Emacs client features
3168 ---------------------
3170 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3172 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3173 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3174 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3175 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3176 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3178 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3181 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3182 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3183 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3184 search with the '*' binding.
3186 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3188 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3189 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3192 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3194 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3195 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3196 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3198 Build-system features
3199 ---------------------
3201 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3203 Add support to configure for many standard options
3205 We include actual support for:
3207 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3209 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3211 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3212 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3214 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3215 separate "make install-emacs"
3217 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3219 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3220 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3221 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3223 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3226 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3227 ========================
3229 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3231 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3232 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3234 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3235 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3236 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3237 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3238 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3239 tags from messages in a thread.
3246 indent-tabs-mode: nil