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 function notmuch_database_close has been split into
85 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy
87 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
88 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
89 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
91 notmuch_database_open and notmuch_database_create now return errors
93 The type signatures of notmuch_database_open and
94 notmuch_database_create have changed so that the functions now
95 return a notmuch_status_t and take an out-argument for returning the
98 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
99 =========================
101 Command-Line Interface
102 ----------------------
106 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
107 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
108 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
109 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
111 Mail store folder/file ignore
113 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
114 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
115 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
117 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
118 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
120 Unified help and manual pages
122 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
123 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
126 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
128 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
129 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
137 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
138 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
139 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
140 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
142 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
144 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
145 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
147 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
150 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
151 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
152 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
154 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
156 should be changed to:
158 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
160 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
162 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
163 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
165 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
167 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
168 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
169 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
170 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
171 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
172 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
176 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
177 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
178 of Mailing List Archives.
180 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
182 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
183 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
186 Show view archiving key binding changes
188 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
189 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
190 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
191 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
192 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
195 Support text/calendar MIME type
197 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
200 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
202 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
203 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
204 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
205 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
207 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
209 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
210 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
211 messages blue by default in the search view.
215 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
216 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
223 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
226 Python bindings changes
227 -----------------------
229 Python 3.2 compatibility
231 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
233 Added missing unicode conversions
235 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
236 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
237 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
242 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
244 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
245 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
246 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
247 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
248 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
250 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
251 ===========================
256 Fix error handling in python bindings
258 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
259 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
260 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
261 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
263 Quote MML tags in replies
265 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
266 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
267 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
268 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
269 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
270 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
271 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
272 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
274 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
275 =========================
277 Command-Line Interface
278 ----------------------
282 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
283 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
284 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
285 importing new messages into the database.
287 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
289 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
290 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
291 sometimes. This is now fixed.
296 Automatic tag query optimization
298 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
299 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
300 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
302 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
304 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
305 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
306 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
311 Reduction of memory leaks
313 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
314 and fixed in this release.
321 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
322 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
323 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
326 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
328 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
329 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
330 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
333 Improvements in saved search management
335 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
336 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
337 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
339 Hooks for notmuch-hello
341 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
342 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
343 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
345 New face for crypto parts headers
347 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
348 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
349 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
352 Use space as default thousands separator
354 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
355 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
356 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
358 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
361 New function notmuch-show-advance
363 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
364 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
365 be bound to SPC with:
367 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
369 Various performance improvements
374 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
375 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
378 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
379 ===========================
384 Fix crash in python bindings
386 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
387 for some, but not all users.
389 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
390 ===========================
395 Fix `--help` argument
397 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
398 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
399 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
401 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
402 =========================
404 New build and testing features
405 ------------------------------
407 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
408 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
409 prerequisites is improved.
411 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
413 New command-line features
414 -------------------------
416 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
418 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
419 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
422 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
424 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
425 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
426 favour of using stdout.
428 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
430 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
431 limit the number of results shown.
433 Add `notmuch count --output` option
435 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
436 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
439 New emacs UI features
440 ---------------------
442 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
444 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
445 starting with "tag:".
447 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
449 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
450 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
452 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
454 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
456 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
458 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
459 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
464 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
466 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
468 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
469 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
470 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
471 requires a database rebuild:
473 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
474 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
476 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
478 New collection of add-on tools
479 ------------------------------
481 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
482 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
483 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
486 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
488 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
489 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
490 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
492 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
493 ========================
495 New, general features
496 ---------------------
498 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
500 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
501 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
502 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
503 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
504 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
511 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
512 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
514 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
518 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
519 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
520 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
523 Python bindings changes
524 -----------------------
526 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
528 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
529 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
530 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
531 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
532 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
533 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
535 Ruby bindings changes
536 ---------------------
538 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
539 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
540 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
541 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
546 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
548 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
549 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
551 Reply formatting cleanup
552 ------------------------
554 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
555 MIME parts are being suppressed.
557 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
558 ========================
560 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
562 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
563 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
564 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
565 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
568 Improved Build system portability
570 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
571 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
572 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
574 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
576 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
578 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
580 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
581 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
582 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
584 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
585 ========================
587 Vim interface improvements
588 --------------------------
590 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
592 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
593 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
594 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
595 * fix from list reformatting in search view
596 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
598 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
600 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
601 * fix compose temp file name
603 Python Bindings changes
604 -----------------------
606 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
608 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
609 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
611 Build-System improvements
612 -------------------------
614 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
616 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
619 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
620 ==========================
625 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
627 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
628 people running gcc 4.4.5.
630 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
631 =======================
633 New, general features
634 ---------------------
636 Folder-based searching
638 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
639 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
640 storage). The syntax is as follows:
644 For example, one might use things such as:
650 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
651 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
653 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
654 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
655 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
656 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
658 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
659 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
660 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
663 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
664 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
666 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
670 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
671 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
672 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
674 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
676 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
677 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
679 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
680 notmuch will receive these tags.
682 New command-line features
683 -------------------------
685 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
687 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
688 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
690 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
692 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
693 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
694 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
696 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
698 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
699 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
700 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
701 which parts a signature part applies).
703 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
705 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
706 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
707 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
708 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
709 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
712 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
714 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
715 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
716 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
717 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
718 by translating it internally to the new call.
720 Performance improvements
721 ------------------------
723 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
725 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
726 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
727 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
729 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
730 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
732 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
734 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
735 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
736 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
738 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
739 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
740 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
741 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
743 Faster initial indexing
745 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
746 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
747 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
749 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
751 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
752 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
753 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
754 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
756 New emacs-interface features
757 ----------------------------
759 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
761 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
762 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
763 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
764 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
765 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
766 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
768 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
770 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
771 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
772 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
773 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
775 User-selectable From address
777 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
778 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
779 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
780 will prompt for the from address to use.
782 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
783 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
784 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
786 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
787 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
788 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
791 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
793 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
794 its parent, the subject is not shown.
796 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
798 When a message contains a line looking something like:
800 ----- Original Message -----
802 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
803 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
804 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
805 citations work much like conventional citations.
807 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
809 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
810 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
811 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
812 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
813 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
815 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
816 Notmuch After Tag Hook
818 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
820 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
821 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
822 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
824 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
826 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
827 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
828 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
829 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
830 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
832 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
834 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
837 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
839 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
841 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
843 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
846 Vim interface improvements
847 --------------------------
849 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
851 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
852 * Implementing archive in show view
853 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
854 * Add delete commands
857 Bindings improvements
858 ---------------------
860 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
862 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
863 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
865 Python bindings have been updated and extended
867 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
871 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
872 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
873 `list(Messages)` works now
874 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
876 These allow, for example:
880 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
882 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
888 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
890 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
893 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
895 New build-system features
896 -------------------------
898 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
900 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
901 the configure script from some other directory:
908 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
910 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
911 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
912 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
913 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
914 manual invocation of configure.
916 New test-suite feature
917 ----------------------
919 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
921 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
922 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
923 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
924 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
925 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
928 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
930 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
931 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
932 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
933 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
934 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
935 are updated to take advantage of this.
937 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
939 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
940 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
941 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
942 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
948 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
950 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
951 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
952 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
954 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
956 This fixed a bug where a search for:
958 to:user@elsewhere.com
960 would incorrectly match a message sent:
962 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
964 Fix --output=json when search has no results
966 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
967 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
968 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
971 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
972 from the Received headers in some cases
974 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
975 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
977 Cleaned up several memory leaks
979 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
981 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
983 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
984 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
985 interface and were never intended to be exported.
987 Emacs-interface bug fixes
988 -------------------------
990 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
992 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
993 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
994 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
996 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
998 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
999 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1000 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1003 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1005 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1006 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1007 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1008 fixed to avoid this bug.
1010 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1012 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1013 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1015 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1016 ========================
1018 New, general features
1019 ---------------------
1021 Maildir-flag synchronization
1023 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1024 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1033 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1035 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1036 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1037 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1038 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1040 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1041 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1042 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1043 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1046 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1048 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1049 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1050 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1052 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1053 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1055 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1056 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1058 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1059 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1060 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1062 New library features
1063 --------------------
1065 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1067 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1068 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1069 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1070 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1072 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1073 message with the new function:
1075 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1077 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1078 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1079 over all available filenames for a given message.
1081 New command-line features
1082 -------------------------
1084 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1086 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1087 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1088 access to the mail store itself.
1090 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1091 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1092 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1093 name of a script containing:
1095 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1097 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1098 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1104 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1106 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1108 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1110 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1111 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1112 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1113 now produces nothing).
1115 Emacs interface improvements
1116 ----------------------------
1118 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1120 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1122 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1124 Display current thread subject in a header line
1126 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1128 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1130 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1131 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1132 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1133 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1134 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1135 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1136 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1138 Vim interface improvements
1139 --------------------------
1141 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1143 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1144 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1150 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1152 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1153 ========================
1155 New command-line features
1156 -------------------------
1158 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1160 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1161 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1162 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1164 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1165 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1166 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1167 scripts. For example:
1169 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1170 <operations-on> "$file"
1173 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1175 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1176 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1177 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1178 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1179 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1180 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1182 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1184 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1185 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1186 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1187 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1189 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1191 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1192 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1193 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1194 default rather than Bcc.
1196 New library features
1197 --------------------
1199 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1201 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1202 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1207 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1209 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1210 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1211 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1212 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1213 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1214 notmuch customize interface.
1216 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1218 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1219 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1220 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1221 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1223 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1225 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1226 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1227 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1228 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1230 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1232 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1233 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1234 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1235 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1236 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1237 notmuch customize interface.
1239 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1241 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1242 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1243 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1244 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1245 notmuch customize interface.
1247 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1249 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1250 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1251 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1252 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1255 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1257 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1258 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1259 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1262 New build-system features
1263 -------------------------
1265 Various portability fixes have been applied
1267 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1268 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1269 more portable than ever before.
1271 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1273 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1274 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1275 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1277 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1278 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1279 automatically run ldconfig.
1281 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1282 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1283 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1285 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1286 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1287 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1288 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1290 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1292 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1293 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1294 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1295 used in the resulting Makefile.
1297 New test-suite features
1298 -----------------------
1300 New modularization of test suite
1302 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1303 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1304 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1305 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1306 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1307 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1308 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1309 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1311 New testing of emacs interface
1313 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1314 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1315 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1316 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1317 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1318 database via the FCC setting.
1323 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1325 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1326 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1327 persistent error of the form:
1329 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1331 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1332 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1334 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1336 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1337 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1338 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1340 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1342 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1343 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1344 parsing the notmuch results).
1346 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1348 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1351 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1352 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1353 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1358 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1360 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1361 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1362 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1363 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1364 the emacs interface.
1366 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1368 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1369 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1370 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1372 Python-binding fixes
1373 --------------------
1375 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1377 Debian-specific fixes
1378 ---------------------
1380 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1382 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1383 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1384 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1387 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1388 ==========================
1393 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1395 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1396 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1397 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1398 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1400 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1402 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1403 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1404 want notmuch to crash.
1409 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1411 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1412 directory does not exist
1417 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1419 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1420 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1422 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1423 ========================
1425 New command-line features
1426 -------------------------
1428 User-configurable tags for new messages
1430 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1431 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1432 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1433 to specify this value.
1435 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1437 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1438 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1439 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1441 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1443 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1444 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1446 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1448 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1449 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1450 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1451 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1452 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1455 Indication of author names that match a search
1457 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1458 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1459 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1460 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1461 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1462 messages in the thread are listed first.
1464 New: Python bindings
1465 --------------------
1467 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1468 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1469 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1470 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1472 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1473 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1474 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1477 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1478 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1479 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1481 Emacs interface improvements
1482 ----------------------------
1484 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1486 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1487 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1488 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1489 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1490 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1491 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1492 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1493 but without any of the disadvantages).
1495 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1496 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1497 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1500 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1501 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1502 instead running something like:
1504 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1506 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1507 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1508 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1511 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1513 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1514 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1515 tweaked by the user.
1517 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1518 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1519 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1522 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1523 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1524 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1527 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1529 This support currently relies on an external program,
1530 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1531 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1532 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1533 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1534 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1537 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1538 notmuch) is available via:
1540 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1542 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1543 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1544 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1546 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1548 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1549 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1550 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1551 making this automatic in a future release.
1553 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1555 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1556 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1557 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1558 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1559 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1560 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1563 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1565 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1566 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1567 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1569 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1571 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1572 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1573 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1575 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1576 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1577 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1578 other representation.
1580 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1581 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1584 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1586 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1587 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1588 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1590 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1591 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1592 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1594 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1596 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1597 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1598 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1599 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1600 to display the search result.
1602 More flexible handling of header visibility
1604 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1605 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1606 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1607 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1608 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1609 with the 'h' keybinding.
1611 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1612 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1613 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1615 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1617 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1619 Customizable formatting of search results
1621 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1622 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1623 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1625 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1627 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1629 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1634 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1636 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1637 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1638 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1639 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1645 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1647 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1648 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1650 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1652 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1653 accept are now all accepted.
1658 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1660 Better display of output from failed tests
1662 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1663 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1665 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1666 ========================
1668 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1669 detailed release notes this time!
1671 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1672 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1674 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1675 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1676 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1677 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1684 Better guessing of From: header
1686 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1687 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1688 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1689 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1690 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1693 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1695 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1696 guaranteed to match all messages.
1698 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1700 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1701 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1702 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1703 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1704 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1707 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1710 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1711 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1712 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1713 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1718 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1720 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1721 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1722 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1723 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1725 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1727 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1729 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1730 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1731 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1733 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1735 Previously, the user might see:
1737 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1741 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1743 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1744 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1745 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1746 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1748 Emacs client features
1749 ---------------------
1751 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1753 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1754 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1755 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1756 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1757 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1759 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1762 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1763 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1764 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1765 search with the '*' binding.
1767 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1769 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1770 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1773 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1775 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1776 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1777 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1779 Build-system features
1780 ---------------------
1782 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1784 Add support to configure for many standard options
1786 We include actual support for:
1788 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1790 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1792 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1793 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1795 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1796 separate "make install-emacs"
1798 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1800 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1801 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1802 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1804 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1807 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1808 ========================
1810 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1812 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1813 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1815 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1816 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1817 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1818 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1819 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1820 tags from messages in a thread.
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