1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
17 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
19 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
20 tag in your query, for example:
22 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
24 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
25 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
27 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
28 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
30 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
32 Mail store folder/file ignore
34 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
35 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
36 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
38 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
39 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
46 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
47 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
48 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
49 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
51 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
53 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
54 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
56 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
59 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
60 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
61 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
63 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
67 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
69 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
71 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
72 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
74 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
76 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
77 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
78 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
79 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
80 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
81 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
88 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
91 Python bindings changes
92 -----------------------
94 Python 3.2 compatibility
96 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
98 Added missing unicode conversions
100 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
101 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
102 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
107 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
109 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
110 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
111 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
113 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
114 ===========================
119 Fix error handling in python bindings.
121 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
122 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
123 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
124 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
126 Quote MML tags in replies
128 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
129 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
130 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
131 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
132 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
133 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
134 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
135 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
137 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
138 =========================
140 Command-Line Interface
141 ----------------------
145 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
146 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
147 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
148 importing new messages into the database.
150 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
152 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
153 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
154 sometimes. This is now fixed.
159 Automatic tag query optimization
161 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
162 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
163 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
165 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
167 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
168 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
169 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
174 Reduction of memory leaks
176 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
177 and fixed in this release.
184 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
185 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
186 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
189 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
191 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
192 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
193 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
196 Improvements in saved search management
198 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
199 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
200 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
202 Hooks for notmuch-hello
204 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
205 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
206 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
208 New face for crypto parts headers
210 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
211 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
212 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
215 Use space as default thousands separator
217 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
218 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
219 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
221 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
222 buttonized id: links.
224 New function notmuch-show-advance
226 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
227 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
228 be bound to SPC with:
230 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
232 Various performance improvements.
237 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
238 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
241 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
242 ===========================
247 Fix crash in python bindings.
249 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
250 for some, but not all users.
252 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
253 ===========================
260 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
261 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
264 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
265 =========================
267 New build and testing features
268 ------------------------------
270 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
271 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
272 prerequisites is improved.
274 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
276 New command-line features
277 -------------------------
279 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
281 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
282 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
285 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
287 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
288 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
289 favour of using stdout.
291 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
293 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
294 the number of results shown.
296 Add "notmuch count --output" option
298 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
299 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
301 New emacs UI features
302 ---------------------
304 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
306 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
307 starting with "tag:".
309 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
311 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
312 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
314 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
316 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
318 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
320 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
321 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
326 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
328 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
330 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
331 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
332 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
333 requires a database rebuild:
335 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
336 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
338 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
340 New collection of add-on tools
341 ------------------------------
343 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
344 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
345 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
348 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
350 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
351 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
352 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
354 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
355 ========================
357 New, general features
358 ---------------------
360 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
362 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
363 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
364 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
365 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
366 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
373 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
374 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
376 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
380 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
381 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
382 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
385 Python bindings changes
386 -----------------------
388 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
390 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
391 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
392 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
393 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
394 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
395 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
397 Ruby bindings changes
398 ---------------------
400 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
401 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
402 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
403 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
408 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
410 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
411 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
413 Reply formatting cleanup
414 ------------------------
416 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
417 MIME parts are being suppressed.
419 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
420 ========================
422 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
424 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
425 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
426 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
427 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
430 Improved Build system portability
432 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
433 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
434 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
436 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
438 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
440 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
442 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
443 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
444 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
446 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
447 ========================
449 Vim interface improvements
450 --------------------------
452 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
454 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
455 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
456 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
457 * fix from list reformatting in search view
458 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
460 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
462 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
463 * fix compose temp file name
465 Python Bindings changes
466 -----------------------
468 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
470 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
471 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
473 Build-System improvements
474 ------------------------
476 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
478 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
481 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
482 ==========================
487 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
489 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
490 people running gcc 4.4.5.
492 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
493 =======================
494 New, general features
495 ---------------------
496 Folder-based searching
498 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
499 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
500 storage). The syntax is as follows:
504 For example, one might use things such as:
510 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
511 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
513 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
514 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
515 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
516 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
518 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
519 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
520 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
523 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
524 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
526 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
530 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
531 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
532 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
534 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
536 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
537 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
539 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
540 notmuch will receive these tags.
542 New command-line features
543 -------------------------
544 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
546 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
547 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
549 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
551 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
552 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
553 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
555 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
557 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
558 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
559 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
560 which parts a signature part applies).
562 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
564 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
565 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
566 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
567 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
568 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
571 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
573 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
574 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
575 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
576 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
577 by translating it internally to the new call.
579 Performance improvements
580 ------------------------
581 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
583 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
584 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
585 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
587 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
588 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
590 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
592 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
593 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
594 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
596 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
597 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
598 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
599 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
601 Faster initial indexing
603 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
604 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
605 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
607 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
609 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
610 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
611 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
612 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
614 New emacs-interface features
615 ----------------------------
617 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
619 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
620 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
621 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
622 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
623 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
624 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
626 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
628 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
629 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
630 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
631 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
633 User-selectable From address
635 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
636 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
637 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
638 will prompt for the from address to use.
640 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
641 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
642 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
644 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
645 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
646 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
649 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
651 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
652 its parent, the subject is not shown.
654 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
656 When a message contains a line looking something like:
658 ----- Original Message -----
660 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
661 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
662 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
663 citations work much like conventional citations.
665 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
667 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
668 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
669 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
670 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
671 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
673 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
674 Notmuch After Tag Hook
676 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
678 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
679 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
680 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
682 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
684 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
685 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
686 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
687 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
688 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
690 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
692 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
695 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
697 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
699 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
700 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
702 Vim interface improvements
703 --------------------------
704 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
706 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
707 * Implementing archive in show view
708 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
709 * Add delete commands
712 Bindings improvements
713 ---------------------
714 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
716 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
717 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
719 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
720 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
723 - Message().get_filenames(),
724 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
725 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
727 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
728 These allow, for example:
731 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
733 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
738 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
739 Use len(list(Messages())) or
740 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
742 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
744 New build-system features
745 -------------------------
746 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
748 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
749 the configure script from some other directory:
756 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
758 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
759 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
760 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
761 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
762 manual invocation of configure.
764 New test-suite feature
765 ----------------------
766 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
768 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
769 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
770 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
771 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
772 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
775 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
777 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
778 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
779 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
780 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
781 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
782 are updated to take advantage of this.
784 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
786 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
787 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
788 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
789 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
794 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
796 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
797 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
798 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
800 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
802 This fixed a bug where a search for:
804 to:user@elsewhere.com
806 would incorrectly match a message sent:
808 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
810 Fix --output=json when search has no results
812 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
813 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
814 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
817 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
818 from the Received headers in some cases.
820 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
821 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
823 Cleaned up several memory leaks
825 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
827 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
829 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
830 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
831 interface and were never intended to be exported.
833 Emacs-interface bug fixes
834 -------------------------
835 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
837 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
838 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
839 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
841 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
843 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
844 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
845 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
848 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
850 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
851 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
852 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
853 fixed to avoid this bug.
855 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
857 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
858 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
860 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
861 ========================
862 New, general features
863 ---------------------
864 Maildir-flag synchronization
866 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
867 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
876 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
878 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
879 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
880 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
881 renamed with an 'R' flag).
883 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
884 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
885 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
886 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
889 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
891 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
892 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
893 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
895 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
896 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
898 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
899 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
901 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
902 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
903 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
907 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
909 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
910 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
911 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
912 notmuch_message_get_filename).
914 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
915 message with the new function:
917 notmuch_message_get_filenames
919 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
920 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
921 all available filenames for a given message.
923 New command-line features
924 -------------------------
925 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
927 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
928 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
929 access to the mail store itself.
931 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
932 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
933 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
934 name of a script containing:
936 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
938 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
939 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
944 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
946 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
948 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
950 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
951 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
952 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
953 now produces nothing).
955 Emacs interface improvements
956 ----------------------------
957 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
959 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
961 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
963 Display current thread subject in a header line.
965 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
967 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
969 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
970 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
971 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
972 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
973 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
974 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
975 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
977 Vim interface improvements
978 --------------------------
979 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
981 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
982 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
987 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
989 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
990 ========================
991 New command-line features
992 -------------------------
993 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
995 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
996 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
997 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
999 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1000 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1001 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1002 scripts. For example:
1004 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1005 <operations-on> "$file"
1008 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1010 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1011 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1012 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1013 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1014 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1015 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1017 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1019 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1020 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1021 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1022 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1024 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1026 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1027 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1028 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1029 default rather than Bcc.
1031 New library features
1032 --------------------
1033 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1035 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1036 notmuch_query_t object.
1040 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1042 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1043 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1044 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1045 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1046 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1047 notmuch customize interface.
1049 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1051 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1052 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1053 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1054 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1056 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1058 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1059 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1060 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1061 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1063 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1065 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1066 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1067 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1068 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1069 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1070 notmuch customize interface.
1072 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1074 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1075 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1076 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1077 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1078 notmuch customize interface.
1080 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1082 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1083 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1084 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1085 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1088 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1090 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1091 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1092 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1095 New build-system features
1096 -------------------------
1097 Various portability fixes have been applied
1099 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1100 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1101 more portable than ever before.
1103 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1105 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1106 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1107 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1109 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1110 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1111 automatically run ldconfig.
1113 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1114 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1115 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1117 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1118 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1119 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1120 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1122 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1124 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1125 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1126 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1127 used in the resulting Makefile.
1129 New test-suite features
1130 -----------------------
1131 New modularization of test suite.
1133 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1134 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1135 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1136 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1137 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1138 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1139 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1140 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1142 New testing of emacs interface.
1144 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1145 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1146 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1147 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1148 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1149 database via the FCC setting.
1153 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1155 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1156 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1157 persistent error of the form:
1159 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1161 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1162 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1164 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1166 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1167 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1168 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1170 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1172 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1173 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1174 parsing the notmuch results).
1176 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1178 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1180 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1181 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1182 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1186 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1188 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1189 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1190 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1191 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1192 the emacs interface.
1194 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1196 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1197 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1198 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1200 Python-binding fixes
1201 --------------------
1202 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1204 Debian-specific fixes
1205 ---------------------
1206 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1208 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1209 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1210 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1213 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1214 ==========================
1217 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1219 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1220 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1221 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1222 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1224 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1226 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1227 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1228 want notmuch to crash.
1232 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1234 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1235 directory does not exist.
1239 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1241 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1242 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1244 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1245 ========================
1246 New command-line features
1247 -------------------------
1248 User-configurable tags for new messages
1250 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1251 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1252 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1253 to specify this value.
1255 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1257 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1258 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1259 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1261 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1263 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1264 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1266 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1268 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1269 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1270 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1271 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1272 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1275 Indication of author names that match a search
1277 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1278 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1279 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1280 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1281 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1282 messages in the thread are listed first.
1284 New: Python bindings
1285 --------------------
1286 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1287 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1288 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1289 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1291 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1292 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1293 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1296 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1297 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1298 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1300 Emacs interface improvements
1301 ----------------------------
1302 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1304 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1305 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1306 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1307 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1308 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1309 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1310 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1311 but without any of the disadvantages).
1313 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1314 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1315 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1318 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1319 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1320 recommend instead running something like:
1322 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1324 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1325 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1326 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1329 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1331 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1332 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1333 tweaked by the user.
1335 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1336 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1337 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1340 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1341 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1342 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1345 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1347 This support currently relies on an external program,
1348 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1349 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1350 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1351 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1352 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1355 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1356 notmuch) is available via:
1358 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1360 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1361 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1362 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1364 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1366 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1367 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1368 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1369 making this automatic in a future release.
1371 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1373 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1374 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1375 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1376 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1377 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1378 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1381 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1383 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1384 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1385 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1387 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1389 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1390 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1391 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1393 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1394 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1395 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1396 other representation.
1398 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1399 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1402 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1404 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1405 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1406 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1408 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1409 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1410 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1412 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1414 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1415 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1416 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1417 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1418 to display the search result.
1420 More flexible handling of header visibility
1422 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1423 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1424 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1425 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1426 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1427 with the 'h' keybinding.
1429 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1430 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1431 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1433 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1435 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1437 Customizable formatting of search results
1439 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1440 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1441 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1443 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1445 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1447 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1451 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1453 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1454 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1455 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1456 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1461 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1463 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1464 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1466 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1468 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1469 accept are now all accepted.
1473 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1475 Better display of output from failed tests.
1477 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1478 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1480 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1481 ========================
1482 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1483 detailed release notes this time!
1485 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1486 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1488 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1489 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1490 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1491 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1497 Better guessing of From: header.
1499 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1500 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1501 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1502 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1503 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1506 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1508 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1509 guaranteed to match all messages.
1511 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1513 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1514 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1515 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1516 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1517 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1520 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1523 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1524 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1525 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1526 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1530 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1532 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1533 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1534 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1535 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1537 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1539 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1541 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1542 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1543 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1545 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1547 Previously, the user might see:
1549 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1553 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1555 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1556 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1557 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1558 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1560 Emacs client features
1561 ---------------------
1562 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1564 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1565 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1566 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1567 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1568 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1570 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1573 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1574 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1575 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1576 search with the '*' binding.
1578 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1580 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1581 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1584 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1586 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1587 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1588 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1590 Build-system features
1591 ---------------------
1592 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1594 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1596 We include actual support for:
1598 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1600 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1602 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1603 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1605 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1606 separate "make install-emacs".
1608 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1610 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1611 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1612 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1614 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1617 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1618 ========================
1619 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1621 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1622 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1624 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1625 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1626 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1627 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1628 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1629 tags from messages in a thread.