1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format.
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
18 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them.
20 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
21 newlines before calling notmuch count.
23 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
24 =========================
26 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
27 ---------------------------------------
29 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
30 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
31 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
32 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
33 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
34 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
35 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
39 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
40 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
42 Command-Line Interface
43 ----------------------
45 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
47 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
48 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
49 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
50 print for each message.
52 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
53 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
54 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
55 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
57 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
59 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
60 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
61 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
63 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
65 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
66 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
67 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
68 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
70 `notmuch compact` command
72 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
73 functionality through a more convenient interface than
74 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
75 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
76 move the compacted database into place.
81 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
83 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
84 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
85 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
86 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
87 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
92 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
94 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
95 search, show and tree mode itself)
97 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
100 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
101 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
103 Customising `notmuch-tree`
105 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
106 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
107 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
108 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
109 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
110 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
111 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
113 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
115 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
116 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
117 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
118 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
119 thread when the search was performed.
121 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
123 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
124 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
125 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
127 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
129 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
130 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
133 Built-in help improvements
135 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
136 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
137 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
139 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
141 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
142 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
143 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
145 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
147 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
148 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
150 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
152 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
153 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
154 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
155 to move some of them to the common keymap.
157 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
159 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
160 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
161 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
162 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
164 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
166 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
167 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
168 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
170 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
172 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
173 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
174 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
176 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
178 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
179 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
180 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
181 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
182 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
184 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
186 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
187 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
188 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
189 the body part of the message.
194 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
195 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
196 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
198 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
199 =========================
201 Command-Line Interface
202 ----------------------
204 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
206 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
207 folder and notmuch index.
209 `notmuch count --batch` option
211 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
212 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
214 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
216 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
217 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
218 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
221 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
223 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
224 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
225 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
226 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
227 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
230 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
232 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
233 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
235 Top level option to specify configuration file
237 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
238 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
240 Bash command-line completion
242 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
243 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
244 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
245 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
246 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
247 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
248 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
249 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
250 bash-completion package.
252 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
257 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
259 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
260 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
261 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
262 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
263 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
264 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
265 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
266 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
268 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
270 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
271 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
272 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
274 Key bindings for next/previous thread
276 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
277 previous thread in the search results.
279 Better handling of errors in search buffers
281 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
282 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
284 Faster search and show
286 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
287 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
288 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
289 threads should show faster.
293 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
294 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
295 in question was now removed from this release.
300 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
301 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
306 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
308 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
309 ===========================
314 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
316 Internal test framework changes
317 -------------------------------
319 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
322 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
323 ===========================
325 Internal test framework changes
326 -------------------------------
328 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
329 build failures in non-interactive environments.
331 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
332 =========================
337 Date range search support
339 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
340 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
341 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
342 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
343 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
346 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
348 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
349 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
350 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
351 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
352 but may be removed in a future release.
354 Command-Line Interface
355 ----------------------
357 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
359 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
360 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
362 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
364 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
365 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
366 officially deprecated.
368 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
370 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
371 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
372 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
374 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
376 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
377 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
380 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
381 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
384 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
386 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
387 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
388 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
390 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
392 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
393 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
394 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
396 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
398 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
399 output separated by null characters rather than newline
400 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
401 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
406 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
408 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
409 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
410 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
411 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
413 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
415 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
416 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
417 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
418 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
419 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
420 the behavior of this, see
421 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
422 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
424 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
425 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
426 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
428 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
430 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
431 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
434 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
436 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
437 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
438 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
439 simply displayed in place of the message.
441 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
443 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
444 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
446 Improved text/calendar content handling
448 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
449 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
450 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
451 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
453 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
455 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
456 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
457 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
458 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
460 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
462 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
463 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
464 for HTML email containing images.
466 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
468 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
470 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
472 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
475 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
477 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
478 the point where it was.
480 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
482 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
483 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
484 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
485 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
486 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
488 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
490 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
491 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
492 thread instead of the message id.
494 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
495 -----------------------------
497 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
498 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
499 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
500 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
501 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
502 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
503 further details and installation.
508 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
510 Internal test framework changes
511 -------------------------------
513 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
515 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
516 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
517 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
518 can result in buggy behavior.
520 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
521 =========================
526 Maildir tag synchronization
528 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
529 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
530 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
531 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
532 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
533 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
536 Command-Line Interface
537 ----------------------
539 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
540 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
541 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
542 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
543 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
549 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
551 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
553 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
554 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
555 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
557 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
559 It is now possible to embed newlines in
560 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
563 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
565 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
566 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
567 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
568 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
569 inside the result or message.
571 Search now uses the JSON format internally
573 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
574 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
576 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
577 user-specified formatting
579 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
580 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
581 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
582 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
583 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
585 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
586 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
588 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
589 ===========================
594 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
595 compilation error for this contrib package.
597 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
598 ===========================
603 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
605 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
606 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
607 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
608 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
610 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
611 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
614 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
615 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
616 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
617 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
620 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
622 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
625 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
626 =========================
628 Command-Line Interface
629 ----------------------
633 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
634 for a reply message and full information about the original message
635 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
636 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
638 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
639 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
640 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
641 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
645 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
646 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
648 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
649 tag in your query, for example:
651 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
653 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
654 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
656 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
657 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
659 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
661 Raw show format changes
663 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
664 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
665 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
666 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
667 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
668 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
669 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
670 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
672 Listing configuration items
674 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
680 Changes to tagging interface
682 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
683 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
684 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
685 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
686 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
687 for more information.
689 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
690 may need to update in custom configurations.
692 Reply improvement using the JSON format
694 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
695 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
696 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
697 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
700 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
701 -----------------------------
703 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
704 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
705 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
706 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
707 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
708 contrib/ from now on.
713 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
714 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
716 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
717 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
719 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
720 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
721 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
723 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
724 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
726 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
727 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
728 returning the new database object or directory object.
735 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
736 compatible with go 1.
738 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
739 =========================
741 Command-Line Interface
742 ----------------------
746 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
747 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
748 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
749 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
751 Mail store folder/file ignore
753 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
754 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
755 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
757 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
758 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
760 Unified help and manual pages
762 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
763 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
766 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
768 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
769 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
777 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
778 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
779 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
780 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
782 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
784 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
785 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
787 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
790 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
791 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
792 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
794 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
796 should be changed to:
798 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
800 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
802 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
803 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
805 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
807 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
808 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
809 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
810 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
811 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
812 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
816 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
817 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
818 of Mailing List Archives.
820 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
822 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
823 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
826 Show view archiving key binding changes
828 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
829 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
830 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
831 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
832 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
835 Support text/calendar MIME type
837 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
840 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
842 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
843 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
844 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
845 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
847 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
849 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
850 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
851 messages blue by default in the search view.
855 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
856 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
863 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
866 Python bindings changes
867 -----------------------
869 Python 3.2 compatibility
871 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
873 Added missing unicode conversions
875 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
876 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
877 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
882 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
884 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
885 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
886 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
887 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
888 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
890 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
891 ===========================
896 Fix error handling in python bindings
898 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
899 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
900 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
901 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
903 Quote MML tags in replies
905 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
906 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
907 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
908 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
909 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
910 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
911 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
912 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
914 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
915 =========================
917 Command-Line Interface
918 ----------------------
922 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
923 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
924 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
925 importing new messages into the database.
927 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
929 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
930 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
931 sometimes. This is now fixed.
936 Automatic tag query optimization
938 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
939 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
940 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
942 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
944 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
945 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
946 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
951 Reduction of memory leaks
953 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
954 and fixed in this release.
961 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
962 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
963 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
966 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
968 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
969 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
970 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
973 Improvements in saved search management
975 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
976 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
977 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
979 Hooks for notmuch-hello
981 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
982 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
983 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
985 New face for crypto parts headers
987 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
988 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
989 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
992 Use space as default thousands separator
994 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
995 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
996 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
998 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1001 New function notmuch-show-advance
1003 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1004 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1005 be bound to SPC with:
1007 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1009 Various performance improvements
1014 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1015 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1018 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1019 ===========================
1024 Fix crash in python bindings
1026 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1027 for some, but not all users.
1029 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1030 ===========================
1035 Fix `--help` argument
1037 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1038 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1039 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1041 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1042 =========================
1044 New build and testing features
1045 ------------------------------
1047 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1048 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1049 prerequisites is improved.
1051 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1053 New command-line features
1054 -------------------------
1056 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1058 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1059 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1062 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1064 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1065 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1066 favour of using stdout.
1068 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1070 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1071 limit the number of results shown.
1073 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1075 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1076 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1079 New emacs UI features
1080 ---------------------
1082 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1084 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1085 starting with "tag:".
1087 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1089 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1090 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1092 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1094 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1096 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1098 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1099 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1104 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1106 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1108 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1109 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1110 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1111 requires a database rebuild:
1113 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1114 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1116 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1118 New collection of add-on tools
1119 ------------------------------
1121 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1122 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1123 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1126 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1128 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1129 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1130 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1132 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1133 ========================
1135 New, general features
1136 ---------------------
1138 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1140 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1141 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1142 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1143 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1144 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1151 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1152 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1154 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1158 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1159 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1160 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1163 Python bindings changes
1164 -----------------------
1166 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1168 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1169 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1170 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1171 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1172 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1173 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1175 Ruby bindings changes
1176 ---------------------
1178 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1179 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1180 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1181 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1186 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1188 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1189 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1191 Reply formatting cleanup
1192 ------------------------
1194 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1195 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1197 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1198 ========================
1200 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1202 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1203 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1204 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1205 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1208 Improved Build system portability
1210 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1211 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1212 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1214 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1216 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1218 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1220 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1221 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1222 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1224 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1225 ========================
1227 Vim interface improvements
1228 --------------------------
1230 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1232 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1233 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1234 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1235 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1236 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1238 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1240 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1241 * fix compose temp file name
1243 Python Bindings changes
1244 -----------------------
1246 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1248 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1249 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1251 Build-System improvements
1252 -------------------------
1254 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1256 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1259 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1260 ==========================
1265 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1267 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1268 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1270 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1271 =======================
1273 New, general features
1274 ---------------------
1276 Folder-based searching
1278 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1279 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1280 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1284 For example, one might use things such as:
1290 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1291 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1293 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1294 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1295 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1296 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1298 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1299 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1300 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1303 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1304 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1306 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1308 Support for PGP/MIME
1310 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1311 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1312 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1314 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1316 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1317 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1319 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1320 notmuch will receive these tags.
1322 New command-line features
1323 -------------------------
1325 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1327 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1328 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1330 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1332 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1333 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1334 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1336 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1338 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1339 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1340 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1341 which parts a signature part applies).
1343 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1345 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1346 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1347 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1348 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1349 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1352 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1354 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1355 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1356 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1357 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1358 by translating it internally to the new call.
1360 Performance improvements
1361 ------------------------
1363 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1365 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1366 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1367 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1369 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1370 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1372 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1374 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1375 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1376 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1378 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1379 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1380 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1381 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1383 Faster initial indexing
1385 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1386 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1387 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1389 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1391 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1392 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1393 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1394 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1396 New emacs-interface features
1397 ----------------------------
1399 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1401 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1402 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1403 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1404 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1405 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1406 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1408 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1410 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1411 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1412 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1413 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1415 User-selectable From address
1417 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1418 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1419 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1420 will prompt for the from address to use.
1422 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1423 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1424 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1426 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1427 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1428 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1431 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1433 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1434 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1436 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1438 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1440 ----- Original Message -----
1442 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1443 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1444 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1445 citations work much like conventional citations.
1447 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1449 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1450 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1451 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1452 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1453 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1455 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1456 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1458 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1460 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1461 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1462 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1464 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1466 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1467 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1468 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1469 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1470 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1472 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1474 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1477 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1479 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1481 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1483 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1486 Vim interface improvements
1487 --------------------------
1489 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1491 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1492 * Implementing archive in show view
1493 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1494 * Add delete commands
1497 Bindings improvements
1498 ---------------------
1500 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1502 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1503 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1505 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1507 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1511 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1512 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1513 `list(Messages)` works now
1514 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1516 These allow, for example:
1518 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1520 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1522 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1528 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1530 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1533 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1535 New build-system features
1536 -------------------------
1538 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1540 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1541 the configure script from some other directory:
1548 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1550 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1551 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1552 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1553 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1554 manual invocation of configure.
1556 New test-suite feature
1557 ----------------------
1559 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1561 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1562 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1563 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1564 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1565 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1568 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1570 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1571 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1572 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1573 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1574 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1575 are updated to take advantage of this.
1577 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1579 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1580 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1581 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1582 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1588 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1590 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1591 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1592 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1594 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1596 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1598 to:user@elsewhere.com
1600 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1602 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1604 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1606 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1607 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1608 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1611 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1612 from the Received headers in some cases
1614 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1615 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1617 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1619 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1621 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1623 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1624 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1625 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1627 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1628 -------------------------
1630 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1632 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1633 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1634 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1636 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1638 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1639 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1640 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1643 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1645 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1646 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1647 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1648 fixed to avoid this bug.
1650 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1652 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1653 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1655 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1656 ========================
1658 New, general features
1659 ---------------------
1661 Maildir-flag synchronization
1663 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1664 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1673 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1675 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1676 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1677 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1678 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1680 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1681 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1682 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1683 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1686 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1688 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1689 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1690 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1692 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1693 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1695 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1696 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1698 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1699 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1700 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1702 New library features
1703 --------------------
1705 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1707 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1708 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1709 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1710 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1712 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1713 message with the new function:
1715 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1717 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1718 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1719 over all available filenames for a given message.
1721 New command-line features
1722 -------------------------
1724 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1726 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1727 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1728 access to the mail store itself.
1730 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1731 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1732 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1733 name of a script containing:
1735 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1737 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1738 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1744 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1746 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1748 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1750 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1751 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1752 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1753 now produces nothing).
1755 Emacs interface improvements
1756 ----------------------------
1758 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1760 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1762 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1764 Display current thread subject in a header line
1766 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1768 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1770 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1771 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1772 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1773 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1774 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1775 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1776 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1778 Vim interface improvements
1779 --------------------------
1781 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1783 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1784 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1790 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1792 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1793 ========================
1795 New command-line features
1796 -------------------------
1798 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1800 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1801 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1802 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1804 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1805 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1806 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1807 scripts. For example:
1809 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1810 <operations-on> "$file"
1813 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1815 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1816 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1817 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1818 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1819 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1820 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1822 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1824 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1825 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1826 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1827 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1829 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1831 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1832 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1833 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1834 default rather than Bcc.
1836 New library features
1837 --------------------
1839 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1841 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1842 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1847 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1849 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1850 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1851 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1852 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1853 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1854 notmuch customize interface.
1856 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1858 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1859 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1860 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1861 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1863 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1865 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1866 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1867 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1868 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1870 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1872 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1873 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1874 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1875 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1876 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1877 notmuch customize interface.
1879 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1881 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1882 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1883 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1884 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1885 notmuch customize interface.
1887 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1889 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1890 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1891 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1892 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1895 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1897 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1898 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1899 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1902 New build-system features
1903 -------------------------
1905 Various portability fixes have been applied
1907 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1908 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1909 more portable than ever before.
1911 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1913 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1914 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1915 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1917 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1918 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1919 automatically run ldconfig.
1921 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1922 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1923 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1925 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1926 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1927 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1928 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1930 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1932 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1933 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1934 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1935 used in the resulting Makefile.
1937 New test-suite features
1938 -----------------------
1940 New modularization of test suite
1942 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1943 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1944 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1945 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1946 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1947 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1948 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1949 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1951 New testing of emacs interface
1953 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1954 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1955 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1956 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1957 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1958 database via the FCC setting.
1963 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1965 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1966 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1967 persistent error of the form:
1969 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1971 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1972 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1974 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1976 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1977 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1978 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1980 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1982 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1983 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1984 parsing the notmuch results).
1986 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1988 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1991 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1992 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1993 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1998 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2000 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2001 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2002 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2003 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2004 the emacs interface.
2006 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2008 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2009 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2010 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2012 Python-binding fixes
2013 --------------------
2015 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2017 Debian-specific fixes
2018 ---------------------
2020 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2022 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2023 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2024 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2027 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2028 ==========================
2033 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2035 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2036 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2037 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2038 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2040 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2042 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2043 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2044 want notmuch to crash.
2049 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2051 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2052 directory does not exist
2057 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2059 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2060 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2062 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2063 ========================
2065 New command-line features
2066 -------------------------
2068 User-configurable tags for new messages
2070 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2071 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2072 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2073 to specify this value.
2075 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2077 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2078 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2079 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2081 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2083 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2084 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2086 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2088 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2089 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2090 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2091 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2092 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2095 Indication of author names that match a search
2097 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2098 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2099 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2100 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2101 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2102 messages in the thread are listed first.
2104 New: Python bindings
2105 --------------------
2107 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2108 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2109 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2110 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2112 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2113 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2114 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2117 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2118 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2119 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2121 Emacs interface improvements
2122 ----------------------------
2124 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2126 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2127 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2128 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2129 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2130 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2131 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2132 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2133 but without any of the disadvantages).
2135 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2136 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2137 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2140 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2141 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2142 instead running something like:
2144 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2146 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2147 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2148 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2151 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2153 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2154 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2155 tweaked by the user.
2157 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2158 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2159 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2162 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2163 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2164 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2167 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2169 This support currently relies on an external program,
2170 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2171 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2172 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2173 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2174 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2177 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2178 notmuch) is available via:
2180 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2182 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2183 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2184 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2186 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2188 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2189 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2190 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2191 making this automatic in a future release.
2193 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2195 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2196 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2197 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2198 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2199 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2200 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2203 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2205 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2206 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2207 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2209 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2211 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2212 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2213 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2215 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2216 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2217 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2218 other representation.
2220 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2221 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2224 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2226 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2227 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2228 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2230 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2231 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2232 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2234 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2236 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2237 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2238 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2239 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2240 to display the search result.
2242 More flexible handling of header visibility
2244 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2245 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2246 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2247 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2248 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2249 with the 'h' keybinding.
2251 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2252 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2253 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2255 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2257 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2259 Customizable formatting of search results
2261 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2262 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2263 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2265 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2267 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2269 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2274 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2276 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2277 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2278 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2279 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2285 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2287 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2288 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2290 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2292 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2293 accept are now all accepted.
2298 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2300 Better display of output from failed tests
2302 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2303 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2305 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2306 ========================
2308 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2309 detailed release notes this time!
2311 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2312 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2314 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2315 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2316 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2317 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2324 Better guessing of From: header
2326 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2327 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2328 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2329 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2330 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2333 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2335 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2336 guaranteed to match all messages.
2338 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2340 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2341 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2342 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2343 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2344 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2347 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2350 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2351 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2352 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2353 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2358 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2360 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2361 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2362 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2363 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2365 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2367 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2369 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2370 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2371 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2373 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2375 Previously, the user might see:
2377 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2381 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2383 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2384 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2385 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2386 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2388 Emacs client features
2389 ---------------------
2391 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2393 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2394 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2395 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2396 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2397 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2399 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2402 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2403 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2404 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2405 search with the '*' binding.
2407 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2409 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2410 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2413 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2415 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2416 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2417 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2419 Build-system features
2420 ---------------------
2422 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2424 Add support to configure for many standard options
2426 We include actual support for:
2428 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2430 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2432 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2433 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2435 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2436 separate "make install-emacs"
2438 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2440 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2441 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2442 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2444 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2447 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2448 ========================
2450 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2452 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2453 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2455 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2456 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2457 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2458 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2459 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2460 tags from messages in a thread.
2467 indent-tabs-mode: nil