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.
41 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
43 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
44 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
52 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
53 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
54 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
55 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
57 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
59 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
60 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
62 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
65 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
66 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
67 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
69 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
73 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
75 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
77 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
78 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
80 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
82 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
83 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
84 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
85 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
86 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
87 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
91 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
92 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
93 of Mailing List Archives.
95 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
97 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
98 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
101 Show view archiving key binding changes
103 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
104 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
105 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
106 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
107 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
110 Support text/calendar MIME type
112 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
115 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
117 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
118 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
119 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
120 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
122 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
124 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
125 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
126 messages blue by default in the search view.
133 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
136 Python bindings changes
137 -----------------------
139 Python 3.2 compatibility
141 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
143 Added missing unicode conversions
145 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
146 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
147 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
152 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
154 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
155 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
156 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
158 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
159 ===========================
164 Fix error handling in python bindings.
166 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
167 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
168 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
169 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
171 Quote MML tags in replies
173 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
174 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
175 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
176 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
177 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
178 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
179 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
180 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
182 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
183 =========================
185 Command-Line Interface
186 ----------------------
190 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
191 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
192 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
193 importing new messages into the database.
195 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
197 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
198 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
199 sometimes. This is now fixed.
204 Automatic tag query optimization
206 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
207 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
208 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
210 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
212 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
213 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
214 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
219 Reduction of memory leaks
221 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
222 and fixed in this release.
229 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
230 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
231 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
234 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
236 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
237 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
238 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
241 Improvements in saved search management
243 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
244 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
245 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
247 Hooks for notmuch-hello
249 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
250 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
251 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
253 New face for crypto parts headers
255 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
256 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
257 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
260 Use space as default thousands separator
262 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
263 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
264 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
266 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
267 buttonized id: links.
269 New function notmuch-show-advance
271 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
272 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
273 be bound to SPC with:
275 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
277 Various performance improvements.
282 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
283 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
286 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
287 ===========================
292 Fix crash in python bindings.
294 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
295 for some, but not all users.
297 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
298 ===========================
305 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
306 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
309 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
310 =========================
312 New build and testing features
313 ------------------------------
315 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
316 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
317 prerequisites is improved.
319 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
321 New command-line features
322 -------------------------
324 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
326 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
327 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
330 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
332 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
333 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
334 favour of using stdout.
336 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
338 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
339 the number of results shown.
341 Add "notmuch count --output" option
343 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
344 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
346 New emacs UI features
347 ---------------------
349 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
351 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
352 starting with "tag:".
354 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
356 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
357 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
359 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
361 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
363 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
365 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
366 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
371 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
373 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
375 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
376 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
377 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
378 requires a database rebuild:
380 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
381 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
383 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
385 New collection of add-on tools
386 ------------------------------
388 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
389 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
390 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
393 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
395 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
396 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
397 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
399 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
400 ========================
402 New, general features
403 ---------------------
405 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
407 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
408 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
409 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
410 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
411 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
418 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
419 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
421 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
425 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
426 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
427 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
430 Python bindings changes
431 -----------------------
433 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
435 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
436 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
437 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
438 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
439 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
440 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
442 Ruby bindings changes
443 ---------------------
445 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
446 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
447 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
448 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
453 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
455 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
456 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
458 Reply formatting cleanup
459 ------------------------
461 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
462 MIME parts are being suppressed.
464 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
465 ========================
467 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
469 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
470 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
471 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
472 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
475 Improved Build system portability
477 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
478 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
479 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
481 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
483 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
485 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
487 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
488 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
489 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
491 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
492 ========================
494 Vim interface improvements
495 --------------------------
497 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
499 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
500 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
501 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
502 * fix from list reformatting in search view
503 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
505 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
507 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
508 * fix compose temp file name
510 Python Bindings changes
511 -----------------------
513 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
515 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
516 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
518 Build-System improvements
519 ------------------------
521 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
523 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
526 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
527 ==========================
532 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
534 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
535 people running gcc 4.4.5.
537 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
538 =======================
539 New, general features
540 ---------------------
541 Folder-based searching
543 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
544 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
545 storage). The syntax is as follows:
549 For example, one might use things such as:
555 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
556 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
558 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
559 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
560 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
561 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
563 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
564 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
565 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
568 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
569 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
571 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
575 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
576 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
577 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
579 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
581 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
582 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
584 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
585 notmuch will receive these tags.
587 New command-line features
588 -------------------------
589 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
591 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
592 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
594 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
596 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
597 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
598 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
600 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
602 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
603 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
604 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
605 which parts a signature part applies).
607 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
609 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
610 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
611 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
612 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
613 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
616 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
618 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
619 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
620 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
621 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
622 by translating it internally to the new call.
624 Performance improvements
625 ------------------------
626 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
628 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
629 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
630 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
632 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
633 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
635 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
637 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
638 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
639 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
641 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
642 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
643 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
644 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
646 Faster initial indexing
648 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
649 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
650 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
652 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
654 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
655 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
656 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
657 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
659 New emacs-interface features
660 ----------------------------
662 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
664 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
665 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
666 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
667 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
668 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
669 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
671 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
673 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
674 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
675 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
676 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
678 User-selectable From address
680 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
681 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
682 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
683 will prompt for the from address to use.
685 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
686 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
687 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
689 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
690 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
691 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
694 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
696 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
697 its parent, the subject is not shown.
699 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
701 When a message contains a line looking something like:
703 ----- Original Message -----
705 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
706 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
707 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
708 citations work much like conventional citations.
710 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
712 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
713 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
714 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
715 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
716 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
718 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
719 Notmuch After Tag Hook
721 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
723 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
724 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
725 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
727 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
729 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
730 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
731 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
732 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
733 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
735 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
737 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
740 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
742 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
744 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
745 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
747 Vim interface improvements
748 --------------------------
749 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
751 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
752 * Implementing archive in show view
753 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
754 * Add delete commands
757 Bindings improvements
758 ---------------------
759 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
761 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
762 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
764 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
765 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
768 - Message().get_filenames(),
769 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
770 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
772 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
773 These allow, for example:
776 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
778 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
783 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
784 Use len(list(Messages())) or
785 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
787 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
789 New build-system features
790 -------------------------
791 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
793 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
794 the configure script from some other directory:
801 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
803 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
804 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
805 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
806 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
807 manual invocation of configure.
809 New test-suite feature
810 ----------------------
811 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
813 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
814 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
815 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
816 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
817 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
820 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
822 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
823 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
824 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
825 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
826 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
827 are updated to take advantage of this.
829 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
831 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
832 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
833 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
834 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
839 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
841 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
842 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
843 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
845 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
847 This fixed a bug where a search for:
849 to:user@elsewhere.com
851 would incorrectly match a message sent:
853 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
855 Fix --output=json when search has no results
857 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
858 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
859 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
862 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
863 from the Received headers in some cases.
865 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
866 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
868 Cleaned up several memory leaks
870 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
872 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
874 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
875 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
876 interface and were never intended to be exported.
878 Emacs-interface bug fixes
879 -------------------------
880 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
882 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
883 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
884 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
886 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
888 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
889 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
890 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
893 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
895 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
896 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
897 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
898 fixed to avoid this bug.
900 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
902 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
903 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
905 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
906 ========================
907 New, general features
908 ---------------------
909 Maildir-flag synchronization
911 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
912 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
921 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
923 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
924 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
925 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
926 renamed with an 'R' flag).
928 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
929 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
930 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
931 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
934 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
936 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
937 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
938 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
940 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
941 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
943 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
944 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
946 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
947 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
948 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
952 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
954 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
955 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
956 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
957 notmuch_message_get_filename).
959 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
960 message with the new function:
962 notmuch_message_get_filenames
964 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
965 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
966 all available filenames for a given message.
968 New command-line features
969 -------------------------
970 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
972 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
973 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
974 access to the mail store itself.
976 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
977 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
978 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
979 name of a script containing:
981 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
983 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
984 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
989 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
991 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
993 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
995 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
996 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
997 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
998 now produces nothing).
1000 Emacs interface improvements
1001 ----------------------------
1002 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1004 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1006 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1008 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1010 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1012 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1014 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1015 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1016 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1017 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1018 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1019 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1020 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1022 Vim interface improvements
1023 --------------------------
1024 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1026 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1027 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1032 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1034 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1035 ========================
1036 New command-line features
1037 -------------------------
1038 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1040 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1041 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1042 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1044 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1045 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1046 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1047 scripts. For example:
1049 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1050 <operations-on> "$file"
1053 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1055 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1056 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1057 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1058 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1059 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1060 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1062 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1064 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1065 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1066 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1067 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1069 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1071 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1072 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1073 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1074 default rather than Bcc.
1076 New library features
1077 --------------------
1078 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1080 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1081 notmuch_query_t object.
1085 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1087 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1088 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1089 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1090 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1091 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1092 notmuch customize interface.
1094 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1096 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1097 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1098 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1099 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1101 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1103 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1104 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1105 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1106 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1108 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1110 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1111 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1112 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1113 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1114 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1115 notmuch customize interface.
1117 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1119 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1120 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1121 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1122 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1123 notmuch customize interface.
1125 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1127 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1128 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1129 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1130 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1133 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1135 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1136 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1137 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1140 New build-system features
1141 -------------------------
1142 Various portability fixes have been applied
1144 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1145 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1146 more portable than ever before.
1148 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1150 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1151 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1152 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1154 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1155 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1156 automatically run ldconfig.
1158 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1159 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1160 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1162 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1163 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1164 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1165 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1167 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1169 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1170 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1171 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1172 used in the resulting Makefile.
1174 New test-suite features
1175 -----------------------
1176 New modularization of test suite.
1178 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1179 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1180 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1181 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1182 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1183 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1184 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1185 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1187 New testing of emacs interface.
1189 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1190 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1191 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1192 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1193 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1194 database via the FCC setting.
1198 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1200 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1201 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1202 persistent error of the form:
1204 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1206 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1207 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1209 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1211 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1212 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1213 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1215 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1217 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1218 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1219 parsing the notmuch results).
1221 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1223 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1225 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1226 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1227 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1231 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1233 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1234 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1235 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1236 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1237 the emacs interface.
1239 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1241 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1242 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1243 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1245 Python-binding fixes
1246 --------------------
1247 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1249 Debian-specific fixes
1250 ---------------------
1251 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1253 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1254 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1255 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1258 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1259 ==========================
1262 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1264 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1265 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1266 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1267 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1269 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1271 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1272 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1273 want notmuch to crash.
1277 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1279 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1280 directory does not exist.
1284 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1286 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1287 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1289 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1290 ========================
1291 New command-line features
1292 -------------------------
1293 User-configurable tags for new messages
1295 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1296 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1297 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1298 to specify this value.
1300 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1302 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1303 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1304 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1306 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1308 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1309 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1311 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1313 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1314 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1315 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1316 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1317 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1320 Indication of author names that match a search
1322 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1323 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1324 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1325 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1326 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1327 messages in the thread are listed first.
1329 New: Python bindings
1330 --------------------
1331 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1332 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1333 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1334 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1336 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1337 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1338 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1341 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1342 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1343 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1345 Emacs interface improvements
1346 ----------------------------
1347 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1349 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1350 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1351 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1352 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1353 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1354 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1355 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1356 but without any of the disadvantages).
1358 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1359 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1360 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1363 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1364 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1365 recommend instead running something like:
1367 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1369 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1370 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1371 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1374 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1376 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1377 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1378 tweaked by the user.
1380 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1381 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1382 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1385 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1386 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1387 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1390 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1392 This support currently relies on an external program,
1393 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1394 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1395 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1396 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1397 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1400 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1401 notmuch) is available via:
1403 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1405 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1406 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1407 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1409 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1411 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1412 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1413 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1414 making this automatic in a future release.
1416 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1418 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1419 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1420 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1421 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1422 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1423 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1426 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1428 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1429 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1430 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1432 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1434 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1435 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1436 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1438 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1439 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1440 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1441 other representation.
1443 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1444 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1447 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1449 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1450 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1451 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1453 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1454 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1455 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1457 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1459 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1460 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1461 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1462 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1463 to display the search result.
1465 More flexible handling of header visibility
1467 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1468 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1469 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1470 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1471 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1472 with the 'h' keybinding.
1474 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1475 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1476 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1478 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1480 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1482 Customizable formatting of search results
1484 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1485 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1486 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1488 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1490 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1492 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1496 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1498 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1499 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1500 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1501 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1506 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1508 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1509 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1511 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1513 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1514 accept are now all accepted.
1518 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1520 Better display of output from failed tests.
1522 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1523 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1525 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1526 ========================
1527 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1528 detailed release notes this time!
1530 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1531 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1533 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1534 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1535 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1536 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1542 Better guessing of From: header.
1544 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1545 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1546 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1547 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1548 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1551 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1553 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1554 guaranteed to match all messages.
1556 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1558 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1559 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1560 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1561 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1562 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1565 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1568 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1569 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1570 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1571 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1575 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1577 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1578 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1579 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1580 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1582 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1584 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1586 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1587 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1588 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1590 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1592 Previously, the user might see:
1594 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1598 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1600 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1601 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1602 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1603 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1605 Emacs client features
1606 ---------------------
1607 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1609 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1610 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1611 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1612 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1613 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1615 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1618 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1619 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1620 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1621 search with the '*' binding.
1623 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1625 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1626 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1629 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1631 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1632 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1633 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1635 Build-system features
1636 ---------------------
1637 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1639 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1641 We include actual support for:
1643 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1645 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1647 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1648 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1650 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1651 separate "make install-emacs".
1653 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1655 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1656 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1657 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1659 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1662 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1663 ========================
1664 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1666 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1667 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1669 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1670 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1671 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1672 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1673 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1674 tags from messages in a thread.