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 =.
79 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
82 Python bindings changes
83 -----------------------
85 Python 3.2 compatibility
87 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
89 Added missing unicode conversions
91 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
92 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
93 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
98 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
100 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
101 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
102 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
104 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
105 ===========================
110 Fix error handling in python bindings.
112 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
113 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
114 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
115 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
117 Quote MML tags in replies
119 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
120 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
121 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
122 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
123 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
124 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
125 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
126 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
128 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
129 =========================
131 Command-Line Interface
132 ----------------------
136 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
137 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
138 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
139 importing new messages into the database.
141 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
143 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
144 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
145 sometimes. This is now fixed.
150 Automatic tag query optimization
152 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
153 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
154 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
156 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
158 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
159 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
160 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
165 Reduction of memory leaks
167 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
168 and fixed in this release.
175 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
176 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
177 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
180 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
182 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
183 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
184 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
187 Improvements in saved search management
189 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
190 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
191 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
193 Hooks for notmuch-hello
195 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
196 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
197 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
199 New face for crypto parts headers
201 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
202 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
203 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
206 Use space as default thousands separator
208 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
209 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
210 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
212 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
213 buttonized id: links.
215 New function notmuch-show-advance
217 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
218 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
219 be bound to SPC with:
221 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
223 Various performance improvements.
228 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
229 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
232 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
233 ===========================
238 Fix crash in python bindings.
240 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
241 for some, but not all users.
243 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
244 ===========================
251 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
252 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
255 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
256 =========================
258 New build and testing features
259 ------------------------------
261 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
262 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
263 prerequisites is improved.
265 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
267 New command-line features
268 -------------------------
270 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
272 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
273 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
276 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
278 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
279 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
280 favour of using stdout.
282 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
284 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
285 the number of results shown.
287 Add "notmuch count --output" option
289 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
290 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
292 New emacs UI features
293 ---------------------
295 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
297 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
298 starting with "tag:".
300 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
302 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
303 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
305 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
307 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
309 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
311 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
312 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
317 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
319 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
321 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
322 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
323 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
324 requires a database rebuild:
326 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
327 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
329 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
331 New collection of add-on tools
332 ------------------------------
334 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
335 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
336 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
339 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
341 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
342 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
343 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
345 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
346 ========================
348 New, general features
349 ---------------------
351 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
353 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
354 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
355 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
356 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
357 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
364 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
365 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
367 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
371 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
372 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
373 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
376 Python bindings changes
377 -----------------------
379 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
381 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
382 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
383 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
384 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
385 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
386 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
388 Ruby bindings changes
389 ---------------------
391 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
392 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
393 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
394 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
399 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
401 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
402 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
404 Reply formatting cleanup
405 ------------------------
407 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
408 MIME parts are being suppressed.
410 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
411 ========================
413 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
415 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
416 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
417 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
418 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
421 Improved Build system portability
423 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
424 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
425 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
427 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
429 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
431 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
433 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
434 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
435 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
437 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
438 ========================
440 Vim interface improvements
441 --------------------------
443 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
445 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
446 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
447 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
448 * fix from list reformatting in search view
449 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
451 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
453 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
454 * fix compose temp file name
456 Python Bindings changes
457 -----------------------
459 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
461 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
462 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
464 Build-System improvements
465 ------------------------
467 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
469 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
472 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
473 ==========================
478 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
480 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
481 people running gcc 4.4.5.
483 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
484 =======================
485 New, general features
486 ---------------------
487 Folder-based searching
489 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
490 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
491 storage). The syntax is as follows:
495 For example, one might use things such as:
501 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
502 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
504 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
505 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
506 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
507 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
509 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
510 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
511 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
514 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
515 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
517 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
521 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
522 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
523 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
525 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
527 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
528 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
530 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
531 notmuch will receive these tags.
533 New command-line features
534 -------------------------
535 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
537 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
538 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
540 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
542 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
543 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
544 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
546 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
548 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
549 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
550 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
551 which parts a signature part applies).
553 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
555 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
556 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
557 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
558 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
559 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
562 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
564 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
565 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
566 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
567 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
568 by translating it internally to the new call.
570 Performance improvements
571 ------------------------
572 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
574 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
575 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
576 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
578 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
579 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
581 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
583 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
584 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
585 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
587 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
588 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
589 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
590 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
592 Faster initial indexing
594 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
595 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
596 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
598 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
600 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
601 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
602 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
603 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
605 New emacs-interface features
606 ----------------------------
608 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
610 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
611 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
612 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
613 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
614 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
615 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
617 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
619 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
620 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
621 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
622 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
624 User-selectable From address
626 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
627 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
628 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
629 will prompt for the from address to use.
631 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
632 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
633 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
635 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
636 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
637 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
640 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
642 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
643 its parent, the subject is not shown.
645 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
647 When a message contains a line looking something like:
649 ----- Original Message -----
651 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
652 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
653 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
654 citations work much like conventional citations.
656 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
658 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
659 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
660 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
661 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
662 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
664 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
665 Notmuch After Tag Hook
667 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
669 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
670 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
671 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
673 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
675 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
676 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
677 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
678 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
679 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
681 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
683 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
686 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
688 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
690 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
691 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
693 Vim interface improvements
694 --------------------------
695 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
697 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
698 * Implementing archive in show view
699 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
700 * Add delete commands
703 Bindings improvements
704 ---------------------
705 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
707 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
708 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
710 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
711 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
714 - Message().get_filenames(),
715 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
716 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
718 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
719 These allow, for example:
722 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
724 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
729 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
730 Use len(list(Messages())) or
731 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
733 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
735 New build-system features
736 -------------------------
737 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
739 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
740 the configure script from some other directory:
747 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
749 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
750 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
751 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
752 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
753 manual invocation of configure.
755 New test-suite feature
756 ----------------------
757 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
759 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
760 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
761 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
762 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
763 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
766 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
768 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
769 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
770 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
771 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
772 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
773 are updated to take advantage of this.
775 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
777 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
778 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
779 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
780 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
785 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
787 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
788 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
789 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
791 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
793 This fixed a bug where a search for:
795 to:user@elsewhere.com
797 would incorrectly match a message sent:
799 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
801 Fix --output=json when search has no results
803 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
804 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
805 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
808 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
809 from the Received headers in some cases.
811 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
812 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
814 Cleaned up several memory leaks
816 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
818 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
820 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
821 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
822 interface and were never intended to be exported.
824 Emacs-interface bug fixes
825 -------------------------
826 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
828 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
829 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
830 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
832 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
834 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
835 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
836 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
839 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
841 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
842 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
843 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
844 fixed to avoid this bug.
846 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
848 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
849 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
851 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
852 ========================
853 New, general features
854 ---------------------
855 Maildir-flag synchronization
857 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
858 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
867 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
869 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
870 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
871 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
872 renamed with an 'R' flag).
874 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
875 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
876 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
877 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
880 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
882 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
883 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
884 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
886 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
887 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
889 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
890 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
892 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
893 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
894 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
898 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
900 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
901 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
902 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
903 notmuch_message_get_filename).
905 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
906 message with the new function:
908 notmuch_message_get_filenames
910 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
911 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
912 all available filenames for a given message.
914 New command-line features
915 -------------------------
916 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
918 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
919 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
920 access to the mail store itself.
922 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
923 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
924 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
925 name of a script containing:
927 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
929 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
930 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
935 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
937 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
939 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
941 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
942 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
943 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
944 now produces nothing).
946 Emacs interface improvements
947 ----------------------------
948 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
950 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
952 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
954 Display current thread subject in a header line.
956 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
958 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
960 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
961 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
962 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
963 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
964 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
965 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
966 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
968 Vim interface improvements
969 --------------------------
970 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
972 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
973 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
978 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
980 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
981 ========================
982 New command-line features
983 -------------------------
984 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
986 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
987 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
988 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
990 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
991 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
992 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
993 scripts. For example:
995 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
996 <operations-on> "$file"
999 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1001 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1002 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1003 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1004 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1005 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1006 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1008 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1010 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1011 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1012 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1013 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1015 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1017 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1018 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1019 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1020 default rather than Bcc.
1022 New library features
1023 --------------------
1024 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1026 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1027 notmuch_query_t object.
1031 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1033 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1034 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1035 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1036 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1037 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1038 notmuch customize interface.
1040 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1042 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1043 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1044 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1045 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1047 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1049 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1050 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1051 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1052 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1054 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1056 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1057 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1058 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1059 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1060 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1061 notmuch customize interface.
1063 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1065 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1066 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1067 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1068 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1069 notmuch customize interface.
1071 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1073 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1074 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1075 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1076 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1079 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1081 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1082 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1083 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1086 New build-system features
1087 -------------------------
1088 Various portability fixes have been applied
1090 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1091 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1092 more portable than ever before.
1094 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1096 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1097 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1098 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1100 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1101 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1102 automatically run ldconfig.
1104 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1105 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1106 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1108 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1109 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1110 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1111 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1113 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1115 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1116 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1117 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1118 used in the resulting Makefile.
1120 New test-suite features
1121 -----------------------
1122 New modularization of test suite.
1124 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1125 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1126 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1127 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1128 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1129 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1130 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1131 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1133 New testing of emacs interface.
1135 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1136 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1137 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1138 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1139 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1140 database via the FCC setting.
1144 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1146 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1147 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1148 persistent error of the form:
1150 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1152 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1153 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1155 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1157 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1158 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1159 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1161 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1163 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1164 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1165 parsing the notmuch results).
1167 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1169 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1171 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1172 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1173 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1177 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1179 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1180 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1181 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1182 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1183 the emacs interface.
1185 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1187 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1188 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1189 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1191 Python-binding fixes
1192 --------------------
1193 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1195 Debian-specific fixes
1196 ---------------------
1197 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1199 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1200 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1201 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1204 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1205 ==========================
1208 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1210 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1211 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1212 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1213 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1215 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1217 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1218 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1219 want notmuch to crash.
1223 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1225 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1226 directory does not exist.
1230 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1232 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1233 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1235 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1236 ========================
1237 New command-line features
1238 -------------------------
1239 User-configurable tags for new messages
1241 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1242 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1243 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1244 to specify this value.
1246 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1248 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1249 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1250 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1252 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1254 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1255 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1257 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1259 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1260 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1261 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1262 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1263 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1266 Indication of author names that match a search
1268 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1269 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1270 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1271 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1272 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1273 messages in the thread are listed first.
1275 New: Python bindings
1276 --------------------
1277 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1278 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1279 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1280 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1282 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1283 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1284 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1287 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1288 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1289 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1291 Emacs interface improvements
1292 ----------------------------
1293 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1295 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1296 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1297 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1298 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1299 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1300 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1301 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1302 but without any of the disadvantages).
1304 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1305 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1306 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1309 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1310 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1311 recommend instead running something like:
1313 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1315 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1316 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1317 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1320 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1322 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1323 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1324 tweaked by the user.
1326 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1327 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1328 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1331 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1332 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1333 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1336 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1338 This support currently relies on an external program,
1339 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1340 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1341 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1342 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1343 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1346 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1347 notmuch) is available via:
1349 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1351 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1352 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1353 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1355 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1357 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1358 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1359 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1360 making this automatic in a future release.
1362 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1364 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1365 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1366 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1367 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1368 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1369 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1372 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1374 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1375 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1376 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1378 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1380 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1381 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1382 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1384 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1385 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1386 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1387 other representation.
1389 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1390 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1393 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1395 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1396 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1397 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1399 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1400 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1401 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1403 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1405 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1406 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1407 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1408 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1409 to display the search result.
1411 More flexible handling of header visibility
1413 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1414 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1415 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1416 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1417 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1418 with the 'h' keybinding.
1420 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1421 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1422 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1424 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1426 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1428 Customizable formatting of search results
1430 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1431 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1432 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1434 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1436 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1438 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1442 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1444 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1445 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1446 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1447 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1452 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1454 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1455 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1457 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1459 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1460 accept are now all accepted.
1464 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1466 Better display of output from failed tests.
1468 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1469 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1471 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1472 ========================
1473 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1474 detailed release notes this time!
1476 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1477 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1479 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1480 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1481 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1482 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1488 Better guessing of From: header.
1490 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1491 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1492 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1493 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1494 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1497 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1499 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1500 guaranteed to match all messages.
1502 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1504 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1505 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1506 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1507 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1508 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1511 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1514 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1515 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1516 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1517 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1521 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1523 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1524 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1525 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1526 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1528 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1530 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1532 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1533 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1534 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1536 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1538 Previously, the user might see:
1540 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1544 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1546 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1547 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1548 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1549 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1551 Emacs client features
1552 ---------------------
1553 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1555 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1556 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1557 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1558 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1559 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1561 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1564 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1565 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1566 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1567 search with the '*' binding.
1569 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1571 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1572 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1575 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1577 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1578 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1579 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1581 Build-system features
1582 ---------------------
1583 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1585 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1587 We include actual support for:
1589 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1591 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1593 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1594 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1596 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1597 separate "make install-emacs".
1599 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1601 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1602 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1603 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1605 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1608 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1609 ========================
1610 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1612 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1613 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1615 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1616 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1617 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1618 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1619 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1620 tags from messages in a thread.