1 Notmuch 0.13.1 (yyyy-mm-dd)
2 ===========================
7 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
9 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
10 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
11 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
12 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
14 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
15 =========================
17 Command-Line Interface
18 ----------------------
22 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
23 for a reply message and full information about the original message
24 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
25 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
27 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
28 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
29 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
30 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
34 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
35 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
37 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
38 tag in your query, for example:
40 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
42 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
43 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
45 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
46 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
48 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
50 Raw show format changes
52 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
53 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
54 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
55 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
56 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
57 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
58 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
59 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
61 Listing configuration items
63 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
69 Changes to tagging interface
71 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
72 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
73 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
74 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
75 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
78 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
79 may need to update in custom configurations.
81 Reply improvement using the JSON format
83 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
84 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
85 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
86 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
89 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
90 -----------------------------
92 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
93 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
94 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
95 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
96 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
102 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
103 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
105 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
106 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
108 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
109 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
110 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
112 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
113 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
115 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
116 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
117 returning the new database object or directory object.
124 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
125 compatible with go 1.
127 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
128 =========================
130 Command-Line Interface
131 ----------------------
135 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
136 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
137 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
138 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
140 Mail store folder/file ignore
142 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
143 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
144 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
146 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
147 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
149 Unified help and manual pages
151 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
152 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
155 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
157 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
158 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
166 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
167 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
168 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
169 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
171 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
173 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
174 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
176 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
179 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
180 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
181 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
183 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
185 should be changed to:
187 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
189 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
191 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
192 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
194 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
196 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
197 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
198 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
199 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
200 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
201 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
205 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
206 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
207 of Mailing List Archives.
209 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
211 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
212 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
215 Show view archiving key binding changes
217 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
218 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
219 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
220 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
221 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
224 Support text/calendar MIME type
226 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
229 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
231 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
232 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
233 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
234 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
236 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
238 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
239 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
240 messages blue by default in the search view.
244 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
245 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
252 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
255 Python bindings changes
256 -----------------------
258 Python 3.2 compatibility
260 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
262 Added missing unicode conversions
264 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
265 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
266 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
271 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
273 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
274 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
275 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
276 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
277 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
279 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
280 ===========================
285 Fix error handling in python bindings
287 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
288 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
289 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
290 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
292 Quote MML tags in replies
294 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
295 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
296 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
297 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
298 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
299 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
300 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
301 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
303 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
304 =========================
306 Command-Line Interface
307 ----------------------
311 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
312 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
313 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
314 importing new messages into the database.
316 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
318 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
319 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
320 sometimes. This is now fixed.
325 Automatic tag query optimization
327 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
328 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
329 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
331 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
333 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
334 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
335 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
340 Reduction of memory leaks
342 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
343 and fixed in this release.
350 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
351 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
352 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
355 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
357 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
358 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
359 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
362 Improvements in saved search management
364 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
365 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
366 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
368 Hooks for notmuch-hello
370 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
371 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
372 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
374 New face for crypto parts headers
376 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
377 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
378 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
381 Use space as default thousands separator
383 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
384 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
385 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
387 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
390 New function notmuch-show-advance
392 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
393 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
394 be bound to SPC with:
396 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
398 Various performance improvements
403 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
404 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
407 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
408 ===========================
413 Fix crash in python bindings
415 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
416 for some, but not all users.
418 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
419 ===========================
424 Fix `--help` argument
426 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
427 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
428 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
430 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
431 =========================
433 New build and testing features
434 ------------------------------
436 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
437 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
438 prerequisites is improved.
440 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
442 New command-line features
443 -------------------------
445 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
447 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
448 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
451 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
453 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
454 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
455 favour of using stdout.
457 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
459 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
460 limit the number of results shown.
462 Add `notmuch count --output` option
464 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
465 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
468 New emacs UI features
469 ---------------------
471 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
473 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
474 starting with "tag:".
476 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
478 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
479 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
481 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
483 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
485 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
487 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
488 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
493 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
495 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
497 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
498 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
499 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
500 requires a database rebuild:
502 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
503 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
505 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
507 New collection of add-on tools
508 ------------------------------
510 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
511 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
512 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
515 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
517 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
518 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
519 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
521 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
522 ========================
524 New, general features
525 ---------------------
527 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
529 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
530 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
531 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
532 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
533 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
540 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
541 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
543 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
547 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
548 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
549 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
552 Python bindings changes
553 -----------------------
555 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
557 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
558 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
559 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
560 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
561 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
562 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
564 Ruby bindings changes
565 ---------------------
567 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
568 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
569 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
570 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
575 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
577 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
578 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
580 Reply formatting cleanup
581 ------------------------
583 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
584 MIME parts are being suppressed.
586 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
587 ========================
589 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
591 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
592 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
593 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
594 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
597 Improved Build system portability
599 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
600 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
601 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
603 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
605 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
607 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
609 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
610 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
611 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
613 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
614 ========================
616 Vim interface improvements
617 --------------------------
619 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
621 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
622 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
623 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
624 * fix from list reformatting in search view
625 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
627 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
629 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
630 * fix compose temp file name
632 Python Bindings changes
633 -----------------------
635 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
637 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
638 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
640 Build-System improvements
641 -------------------------
643 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
645 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
648 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
649 ==========================
654 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
656 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
657 people running gcc 4.4.5.
659 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
660 =======================
662 New, general features
663 ---------------------
665 Folder-based searching
667 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
668 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
669 storage). The syntax is as follows:
673 For example, one might use things such as:
679 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
680 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
682 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
683 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
684 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
685 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
687 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
688 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
689 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
692 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
693 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
695 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
699 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
700 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
701 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
703 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
705 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
706 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
708 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
709 notmuch will receive these tags.
711 New command-line features
712 -------------------------
714 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
716 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
717 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
719 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
721 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
722 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
723 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
725 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
727 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
728 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
729 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
730 which parts a signature part applies).
732 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
734 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
735 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
736 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
737 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
738 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
741 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
743 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
744 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
745 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
746 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
747 by translating it internally to the new call.
749 Performance improvements
750 ------------------------
752 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
754 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
755 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
756 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
758 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
759 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
761 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
763 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
764 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
765 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
767 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
768 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
769 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
770 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
772 Faster initial indexing
774 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
775 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
776 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
778 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
780 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
781 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
782 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
783 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
785 New emacs-interface features
786 ----------------------------
788 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
790 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
791 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
792 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
793 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
794 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
795 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
797 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
799 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
800 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
801 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
802 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
804 User-selectable From address
806 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
807 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
808 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
809 will prompt for the from address to use.
811 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
812 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
813 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
815 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
816 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
817 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
820 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
822 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
823 its parent, the subject is not shown.
825 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
827 When a message contains a line looking something like:
829 ----- Original Message -----
831 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
832 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
833 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
834 citations work much like conventional citations.
836 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
838 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
839 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
840 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
841 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
842 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
844 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
845 Notmuch After Tag Hook
847 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
849 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
850 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
851 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
853 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
855 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
856 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
857 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
858 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
859 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
861 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
863 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
866 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
868 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
870 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
872 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
875 Vim interface improvements
876 --------------------------
878 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
880 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
881 * Implementing archive in show view
882 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
883 * Add delete commands
886 Bindings improvements
887 ---------------------
889 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
891 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
892 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
894 Python bindings have been updated and extended
896 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
900 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
901 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
902 `list(Messages)` works now
903 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
905 These allow, for example:
909 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
911 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
917 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
919 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
922 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
924 New build-system features
925 -------------------------
927 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
929 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
930 the configure script from some other directory:
937 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
939 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
940 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
941 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
942 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
943 manual invocation of configure.
945 New test-suite feature
946 ----------------------
948 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
950 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
951 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
952 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
953 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
954 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
957 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
959 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
960 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
961 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
962 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
963 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
964 are updated to take advantage of this.
966 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
968 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
969 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
970 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
971 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
977 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
979 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
980 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
981 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
983 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
985 This fixed a bug where a search for:
987 to:user@elsewhere.com
989 would incorrectly match a message sent:
991 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
993 Fix --output=json when search has no results
995 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
996 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
997 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1000 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1001 from the Received headers in some cases
1003 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1004 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1006 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1008 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1010 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1012 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1013 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1014 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1016 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1017 -------------------------
1019 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1021 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1022 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1023 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1025 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1027 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1028 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1029 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1032 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1034 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1035 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1036 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1037 fixed to avoid this bug.
1039 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1041 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1042 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1044 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1045 ========================
1047 New, general features
1048 ---------------------
1050 Maildir-flag synchronization
1052 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1053 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1062 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1064 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1065 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1066 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1067 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1069 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1070 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1071 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1072 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1075 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1077 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1078 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1079 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1081 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1082 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1084 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1085 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1087 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1088 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1089 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1091 New library features
1092 --------------------
1094 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1096 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1097 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1098 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1099 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1101 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1102 message with the new function:
1104 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1106 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1107 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1108 over all available filenames for a given message.
1110 New command-line features
1111 -------------------------
1113 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1115 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1116 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1117 access to the mail store itself.
1119 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1120 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1121 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1122 name of a script containing:
1124 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1126 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1127 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1133 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1135 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1137 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1139 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1140 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1141 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1142 now produces nothing).
1144 Emacs interface improvements
1145 ----------------------------
1147 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1149 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1151 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1153 Display current thread subject in a header line
1155 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1157 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1159 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1160 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1161 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1162 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1163 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1164 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1165 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1167 Vim interface improvements
1168 --------------------------
1170 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1172 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1173 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1179 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1181 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1182 ========================
1184 New command-line features
1185 -------------------------
1187 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1189 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1190 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1191 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1193 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1194 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1195 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1196 scripts. For example:
1198 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1199 <operations-on> "$file"
1202 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1204 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1205 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1206 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1207 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1208 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1209 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1211 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1213 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1214 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1215 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1216 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1218 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1220 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1221 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1222 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1223 default rather than Bcc.
1225 New library features
1226 --------------------
1228 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1230 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1231 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1236 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1238 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1239 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1240 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1241 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1242 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1243 notmuch customize interface.
1245 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1247 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1248 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1249 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1250 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1252 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1254 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1255 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1256 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1257 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1259 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1261 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1262 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1263 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1264 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1265 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1266 notmuch customize interface.
1268 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1270 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1271 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1272 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1273 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1274 notmuch customize interface.
1276 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1278 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1279 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1280 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1281 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1284 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1286 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1287 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1288 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1291 New build-system features
1292 -------------------------
1294 Various portability fixes have been applied
1296 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1297 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1298 more portable than ever before.
1300 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1302 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1303 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1304 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1306 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1307 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1308 automatically run ldconfig.
1310 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1311 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1312 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1314 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1315 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1316 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1317 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1319 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1321 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1322 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1323 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1324 used in the resulting Makefile.
1326 New test-suite features
1327 -----------------------
1329 New modularization of test suite
1331 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1332 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1333 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1334 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1335 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1336 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1337 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1338 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1340 New testing of emacs interface
1342 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1343 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1344 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1345 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1346 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1347 database via the FCC setting.
1352 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1354 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1355 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1356 persistent error of the form:
1358 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1360 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1361 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1363 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1365 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1366 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1367 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1369 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1371 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1372 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1373 parsing the notmuch results).
1375 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1377 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1380 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1381 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1382 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1387 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1389 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1390 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1391 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1392 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1393 the emacs interface.
1395 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1397 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1398 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1399 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1401 Python-binding fixes
1402 --------------------
1404 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1406 Debian-specific fixes
1407 ---------------------
1409 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1411 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1412 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1413 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1416 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1417 ==========================
1422 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1424 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1425 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1426 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1427 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1429 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1431 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1432 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1433 want notmuch to crash.
1438 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1440 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1441 directory does not exist
1446 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1448 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1449 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1451 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1452 ========================
1454 New command-line features
1455 -------------------------
1457 User-configurable tags for new messages
1459 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1460 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1461 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1462 to specify this value.
1464 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1466 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1467 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1468 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1470 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1472 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1473 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1475 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1477 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1478 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1479 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1480 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1481 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1484 Indication of author names that match a search
1486 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1487 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1488 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1489 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1490 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1491 messages in the thread are listed first.
1493 New: Python bindings
1494 --------------------
1496 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1497 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1498 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1499 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1501 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1502 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1503 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1506 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1507 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1508 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1510 Emacs interface improvements
1511 ----------------------------
1513 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1515 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1516 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1517 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1518 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1519 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1520 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1521 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1522 but without any of the disadvantages).
1524 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1525 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1526 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1529 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1530 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1531 instead running something like:
1533 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1535 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1536 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1537 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1540 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1542 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1543 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1544 tweaked by the user.
1546 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1547 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1548 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1551 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1552 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1553 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1556 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1558 This support currently relies on an external program,
1559 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1560 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1561 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1562 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1563 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1566 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1567 notmuch) is available via:
1569 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1571 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1572 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1573 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1575 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1577 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1578 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1579 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1580 making this automatic in a future release.
1582 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1584 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1585 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1586 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1587 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1588 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1589 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1592 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1594 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1595 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1596 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1598 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1600 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1601 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1602 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1604 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1605 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1606 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1607 other representation.
1609 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1610 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1613 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1615 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1616 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1617 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1619 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1620 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1621 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1623 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1625 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1626 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1627 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1628 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1629 to display the search result.
1631 More flexible handling of header visibility
1633 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1634 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1635 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1636 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1637 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1638 with the 'h' keybinding.
1640 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1641 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1642 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1644 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1646 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1648 Customizable formatting of search results
1650 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1651 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1652 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1654 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1656 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1658 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1663 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1665 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1666 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1667 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1668 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1674 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1676 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1677 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1679 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1681 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1682 accept are now all accepted.
1687 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1689 Better display of output from failed tests
1691 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1692 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1694 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1695 ========================
1697 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1698 detailed release notes this time!
1700 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1701 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1703 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1704 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1705 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1706 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1713 Better guessing of From: header
1715 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1716 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1717 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1718 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1719 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1722 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1724 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1725 guaranteed to match all messages.
1727 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1729 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1730 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1731 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1732 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1733 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1736 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1739 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1740 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1741 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1742 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1747 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1749 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1750 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1751 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1752 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1754 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1756 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1758 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1759 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1760 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1762 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1764 Previously, the user might see:
1766 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1770 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1772 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1773 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1774 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1775 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1777 Emacs client features
1778 ---------------------
1780 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1782 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1783 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1784 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1785 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1786 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1788 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1791 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1792 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1793 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1794 search with the '*' binding.
1796 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1798 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1799 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1802 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1804 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1805 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1806 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1808 Build-system features
1809 ---------------------
1811 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1813 Add support to configure for many standard options
1815 We include actual support for:
1817 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1819 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1821 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1822 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1824 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1825 separate "make install-emacs"
1827 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1829 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1830 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1831 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1833 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1836 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1837 ========================
1839 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1841 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1842 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1844 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1845 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1846 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1847 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1848 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1849 tags from messages in a thread.
1856 indent-tabs-mode: nil