1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
44 Raw show format changes
46 The output of show --format=raw has changed for multipart and
47 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
48 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
49 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
50 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
51 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
52 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
53 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
55 Listing configuration items
57 The new "config list" command prints out all configuration items and
63 Reply improvement using the JSON format
65 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
66 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
67 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
68 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
71 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
72 -----------------------------
74 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
75 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
76 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
77 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
78 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
84 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
85 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
87 The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
88 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy
90 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
91 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
92 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
94 notmuch_database_open and notmuch_database_create now return errors
96 The type signatures of notmuch_database_open and
97 notmuch_database_create have changed so that the functions now
98 return a notmuch_status_t and take an out-argument for returning the
101 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
102 =========================
104 Command-Line Interface
105 ----------------------
109 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
110 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
111 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
112 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
114 Mail store folder/file ignore
116 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
117 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
118 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
120 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
121 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
123 Unified help and manual pages
125 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
126 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
129 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
131 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
132 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
140 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
141 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
142 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
143 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
145 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
147 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
148 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
150 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
153 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
154 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
155 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
157 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
159 should be changed to:
161 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
163 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
165 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
166 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
168 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
170 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
171 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
172 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
173 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
174 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
175 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
179 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
180 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
181 of Mailing List Archives.
183 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
185 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
186 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
189 Show view archiving key binding changes
191 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
192 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
193 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
194 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
195 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
198 Support text/calendar MIME type
200 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
203 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
205 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
206 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
207 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
208 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
210 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
212 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
213 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
214 messages blue by default in the search view.
218 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
219 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
226 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
229 Python bindings changes
230 -----------------------
232 Python 3.2 compatibility
234 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
236 Added missing unicode conversions
238 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
239 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
240 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
245 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
247 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
248 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
249 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
250 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
251 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
253 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
254 ===========================
259 Fix error handling in python bindings
261 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
262 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
263 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
264 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
266 Quote MML tags in replies
268 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
269 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
270 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
271 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
272 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
273 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
274 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
275 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
277 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
278 =========================
280 Command-Line Interface
281 ----------------------
285 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
286 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
287 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
288 importing new messages into the database.
290 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
292 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
293 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
294 sometimes. This is now fixed.
299 Automatic tag query optimization
301 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
302 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
303 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
305 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
307 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
308 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
309 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
314 Reduction of memory leaks
316 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
317 and fixed in this release.
324 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
325 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
326 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
329 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
331 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
332 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
333 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
336 Improvements in saved search management
338 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
339 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
340 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
342 Hooks for notmuch-hello
344 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
345 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
346 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
348 New face for crypto parts headers
350 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
351 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
352 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
355 Use space as default thousands separator
357 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
358 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
359 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
361 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
364 New function notmuch-show-advance
366 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
367 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
368 be bound to SPC with:
370 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
372 Various performance improvements
377 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
378 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
381 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
382 ===========================
387 Fix crash in python bindings
389 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
390 for some, but not all users.
392 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
393 ===========================
398 Fix `--help` argument
400 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
401 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
402 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
404 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
405 =========================
407 New build and testing features
408 ------------------------------
410 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
411 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
412 prerequisites is improved.
414 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
416 New command-line features
417 -------------------------
419 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
421 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
422 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
425 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
427 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
428 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
429 favour of using stdout.
431 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
433 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
434 limit the number of results shown.
436 Add `notmuch count --output` option
438 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
439 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
442 New emacs UI features
443 ---------------------
445 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
447 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
448 starting with "tag:".
450 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
452 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
453 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
455 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
457 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
459 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
461 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
462 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
467 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
469 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
471 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
472 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
473 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
474 requires a database rebuild:
476 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
477 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
479 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
481 New collection of add-on tools
482 ------------------------------
484 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
485 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
486 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
489 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
491 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
492 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
493 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
495 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
496 ========================
498 New, general features
499 ---------------------
501 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
503 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
504 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
505 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
506 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
507 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
514 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
515 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
517 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
521 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
522 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
523 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
526 Python bindings changes
527 -----------------------
529 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
531 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
532 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
533 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
534 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
535 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
536 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
538 Ruby bindings changes
539 ---------------------
541 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
542 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
543 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
544 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
549 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
551 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
552 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
554 Reply formatting cleanup
555 ------------------------
557 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
558 MIME parts are being suppressed.
560 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
561 ========================
563 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
565 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
566 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
567 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
568 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
571 Improved Build system portability
573 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
574 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
575 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
577 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
579 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
581 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
583 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
584 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
585 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
587 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
588 ========================
590 Vim interface improvements
591 --------------------------
593 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
595 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
596 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
597 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
598 * fix from list reformatting in search view
599 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
601 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
603 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
604 * fix compose temp file name
606 Python Bindings changes
607 -----------------------
609 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
611 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
612 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
614 Build-System improvements
615 -------------------------
617 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
619 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
622 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
623 ==========================
628 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
630 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
631 people running gcc 4.4.5.
633 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
634 =======================
636 New, general features
637 ---------------------
639 Folder-based searching
641 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
642 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
643 storage). The syntax is as follows:
647 For example, one might use things such as:
653 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
654 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
656 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
657 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
658 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
659 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
661 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
662 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
663 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
666 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
667 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
669 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
673 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
674 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
675 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
677 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
679 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
680 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
682 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
683 notmuch will receive these tags.
685 New command-line features
686 -------------------------
688 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
690 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
691 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
693 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
695 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
696 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
697 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
699 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
701 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
702 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
703 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
704 which parts a signature part applies).
706 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
708 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
709 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
710 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
711 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
712 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
715 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
717 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
718 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
719 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
720 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
721 by translating it internally to the new call.
723 Performance improvements
724 ------------------------
726 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
728 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
729 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
730 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
732 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
733 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
735 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
737 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
738 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
739 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
741 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
742 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
743 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
744 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
746 Faster initial indexing
748 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
749 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
750 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
752 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
754 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
755 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
756 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
757 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
759 New emacs-interface features
760 ----------------------------
762 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
764 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
765 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
766 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
767 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
768 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
769 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
771 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
773 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
774 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
775 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
776 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
778 User-selectable From address
780 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
781 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
782 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
783 will prompt for the from address to use.
785 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
786 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
787 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
789 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
790 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
791 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
794 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
796 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
797 its parent, the subject is not shown.
799 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
801 When a message contains a line looking something like:
803 ----- Original Message -----
805 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
806 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
807 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
808 citations work much like conventional citations.
810 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
812 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
813 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
814 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
815 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
816 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
818 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
819 Notmuch After Tag Hook
821 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
823 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
824 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
825 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
827 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
829 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
830 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
831 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
832 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
833 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
835 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
837 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
840 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
842 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
844 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
846 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
849 Vim interface improvements
850 --------------------------
852 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
854 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
855 * Implementing archive in show view
856 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
857 * Add delete commands
860 Bindings improvements
861 ---------------------
863 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
865 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
866 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
868 Python bindings have been updated and extended
870 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
874 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
875 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
876 `list(Messages)` works now
877 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
879 These allow, for example:
883 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
885 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
891 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
893 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
896 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
898 New build-system features
899 -------------------------
901 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
903 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
904 the configure script from some other directory:
911 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
913 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
914 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
915 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
916 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
917 manual invocation of configure.
919 New test-suite feature
920 ----------------------
922 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
924 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
925 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
926 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
927 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
928 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
931 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
933 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
934 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
935 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
936 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
937 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
938 are updated to take advantage of this.
940 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
942 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
943 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
944 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
945 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
951 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
953 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
954 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
955 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
957 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
959 This fixed a bug where a search for:
961 to:user@elsewhere.com
963 would incorrectly match a message sent:
965 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
967 Fix --output=json when search has no results
969 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
970 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
971 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
974 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
975 from the Received headers in some cases
977 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
978 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
980 Cleaned up several memory leaks
982 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
984 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
986 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
987 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
988 interface and were never intended to be exported.
990 Emacs-interface bug fixes
991 -------------------------
993 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
995 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
996 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
997 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
999 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1001 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1002 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1003 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1006 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1008 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1009 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1010 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1011 fixed to avoid this bug.
1013 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1015 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1016 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1018 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1019 ========================
1021 New, general features
1022 ---------------------
1024 Maildir-flag synchronization
1026 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1027 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1036 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1038 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1039 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1040 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1041 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1043 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1044 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1045 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1046 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1049 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1051 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1052 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1053 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1055 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1056 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1058 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1059 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1061 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1062 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1063 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1065 New library features
1066 --------------------
1068 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1070 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1071 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1072 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1073 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1075 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1076 message with the new function:
1078 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1080 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1081 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1082 over all available filenames for a given message.
1084 New command-line features
1085 -------------------------
1087 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1089 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1090 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1091 access to the mail store itself.
1093 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1094 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1095 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1096 name of a script containing:
1098 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1100 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1101 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1107 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1109 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1111 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1113 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1114 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1115 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1116 now produces nothing).
1118 Emacs interface improvements
1119 ----------------------------
1121 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1123 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1125 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1127 Display current thread subject in a header line
1129 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1131 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1133 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1134 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1135 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1136 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1137 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1138 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1139 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1141 Vim interface improvements
1142 --------------------------
1144 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1146 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1147 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1153 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1155 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1156 ========================
1158 New command-line features
1159 -------------------------
1161 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1163 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1164 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1165 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1167 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1168 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1169 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1170 scripts. For example:
1172 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1173 <operations-on> "$file"
1176 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1178 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1179 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1180 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1181 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1182 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1183 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1185 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1187 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1188 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1189 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1190 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1192 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1194 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1195 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1196 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1197 default rather than Bcc.
1199 New library features
1200 --------------------
1202 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1204 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1205 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1210 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1212 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1213 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1214 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1215 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1216 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1217 notmuch customize interface.
1219 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1221 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1222 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1223 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1224 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1226 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1228 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1229 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1230 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1231 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1233 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1235 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1236 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1237 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1238 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1239 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1240 notmuch customize interface.
1242 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1244 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1245 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1246 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1247 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1248 notmuch customize interface.
1250 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1252 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1253 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1254 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1255 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1258 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1260 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1261 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1262 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1265 New build-system features
1266 -------------------------
1268 Various portability fixes have been applied
1270 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1271 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1272 more portable than ever before.
1274 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1276 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1277 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1278 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1280 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1281 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1282 automatically run ldconfig.
1284 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1285 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1286 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1288 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1289 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1290 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1291 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1293 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1295 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1296 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1297 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1298 used in the resulting Makefile.
1300 New test-suite features
1301 -----------------------
1303 New modularization of test suite
1305 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1306 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1307 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1308 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1309 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1310 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1311 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1312 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1314 New testing of emacs interface
1316 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1317 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1318 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1319 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1320 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1321 database via the FCC setting.
1326 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1328 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1329 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1330 persistent error of the form:
1332 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1334 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1335 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1337 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1339 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1340 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1341 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1343 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1345 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1346 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1347 parsing the notmuch results).
1349 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1351 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1354 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1355 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1356 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1361 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1363 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1364 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1365 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1366 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1367 the emacs interface.
1369 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1371 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1372 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1373 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1375 Python-binding fixes
1376 --------------------
1378 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1380 Debian-specific fixes
1381 ---------------------
1383 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1385 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1386 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1387 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1390 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1391 ==========================
1396 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1398 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1399 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1400 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1401 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1403 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1405 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1406 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1407 want notmuch to crash.
1412 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1414 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1415 directory does not exist
1420 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1422 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1423 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1425 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1426 ========================
1428 New command-line features
1429 -------------------------
1431 User-configurable tags for new messages
1433 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1434 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1435 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1436 to specify this value.
1438 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1440 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1441 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1442 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1444 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1446 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1447 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1449 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1451 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1452 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1453 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1454 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1455 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1458 Indication of author names that match a search
1460 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1461 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1462 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1463 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1464 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1465 messages in the thread are listed first.
1467 New: Python bindings
1468 --------------------
1470 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1471 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1472 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1473 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1475 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1476 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1477 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1480 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1481 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1482 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1484 Emacs interface improvements
1485 ----------------------------
1487 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1489 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1490 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1491 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1492 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1493 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1494 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1495 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1496 but without any of the disadvantages).
1498 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1499 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1500 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1503 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1504 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1505 instead running something like:
1507 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1509 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1510 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1511 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1514 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1516 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1517 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1518 tweaked by the user.
1520 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1521 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1522 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1525 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1526 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1527 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1530 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1532 This support currently relies on an external program,
1533 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1534 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1535 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1536 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1537 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1540 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1541 notmuch) is available via:
1543 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1545 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1546 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1547 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1549 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1551 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1552 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1553 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1554 making this automatic in a future release.
1556 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1558 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1559 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1560 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1561 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1562 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1563 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1566 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1568 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1569 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1570 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1572 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1574 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1575 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1576 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1578 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1579 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1580 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1581 other representation.
1583 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1584 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1587 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1589 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1590 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1591 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1593 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1594 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1595 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1597 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1599 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1600 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1601 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1602 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1603 to display the search result.
1605 More flexible handling of header visibility
1607 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1608 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1609 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1610 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1611 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1612 with the 'h' keybinding.
1614 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1615 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1616 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1618 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1620 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1622 Customizable formatting of search results
1624 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1625 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1626 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1628 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1630 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1632 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1637 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1639 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1640 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1641 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1642 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1648 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1650 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1651 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1653 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1655 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1656 accept are now all accepted.
1661 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1663 Better display of output from failed tests
1665 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1666 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1668 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1669 ========================
1671 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1672 detailed release notes this time!
1674 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1675 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1677 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1678 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1679 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1680 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1687 Better guessing of From: header
1689 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1690 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1691 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1692 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1693 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1696 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1698 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1699 guaranteed to match all messages.
1701 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1703 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1704 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1705 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1706 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1707 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1710 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1713 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1714 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1715 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1716 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1721 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1723 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1724 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1725 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1726 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1728 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1730 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1732 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1733 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1734 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1736 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1738 Previously, the user might see:
1740 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1744 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1746 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1747 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1748 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1749 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1751 Emacs client features
1752 ---------------------
1754 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1756 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1757 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1758 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1759 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1760 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1762 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1765 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1766 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1767 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1768 search with the '*' binding.
1770 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1772 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1773 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1776 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1778 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1779 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1780 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1782 Build-system features
1783 ---------------------
1785 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1787 Add support to configure for many standard options
1789 We include actual support for:
1791 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1793 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1795 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1796 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1798 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1799 separate "make install-emacs"
1801 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1803 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1804 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1805 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1807 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1810 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1811 ========================
1813 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1815 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1816 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1818 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1819 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1820 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1821 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1822 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1823 tags from messages in a thread.
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