1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
47 Reply improvement using the JSON format
49 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
50 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
51 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
52 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
55 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
56 =========================
58 Command-Line Interface
59 ----------------------
63 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
64 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
65 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
66 --reply-to=(all|sender).
68 Mail store folder/file ignore
70 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
71 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
72 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
74 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
75 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
77 Unified help and manual pages
79 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
80 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
83 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
85 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
86 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
94 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
95 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
96 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
97 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
99 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
101 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
102 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
104 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
107 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
108 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
109 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
111 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
113 should be changed to:
115 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
117 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
119 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
120 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
122 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
124 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
125 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
126 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
127 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
128 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
129 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
133 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
134 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
135 of Mailing List Archives.
137 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
139 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
140 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
143 Show view archiving key binding changes
145 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
146 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
147 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
148 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
149 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
152 Support text/calendar MIME type
154 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
157 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
159 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
160 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
161 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
162 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
164 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
166 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
167 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
168 messages blue by default in the search view.
172 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
173 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
180 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
183 Python bindings changes
184 -----------------------
186 Python 3.2 compatibility
188 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
190 Added missing unicode conversions
192 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
193 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
194 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
199 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
201 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
202 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
203 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
204 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
205 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
207 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
208 ===========================
213 Fix error handling in python bindings.
215 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
216 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
217 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
218 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
220 Quote MML tags in replies
222 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
223 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
224 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
225 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
226 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
227 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
228 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
229 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
231 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
232 =========================
234 Command-Line Interface
235 ----------------------
239 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
240 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
241 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
242 importing new messages into the database.
244 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
246 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
247 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
248 sometimes. This is now fixed.
253 Automatic tag query optimization
255 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
256 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
257 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
259 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
261 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
262 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
263 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
268 Reduction of memory leaks
270 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
271 and fixed in this release.
278 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
279 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
280 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
283 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
285 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
286 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
287 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
290 Improvements in saved search management
292 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
293 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
294 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
296 Hooks for notmuch-hello
298 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
299 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
300 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
302 New face for crypto parts headers
304 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
305 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
306 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
309 Use space as default thousands separator
311 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
312 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
313 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
315 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
316 buttonized id: links.
318 New function notmuch-show-advance
320 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
321 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
322 be bound to SPC with:
324 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
326 Various performance improvements.
331 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
332 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
335 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
336 ===========================
341 Fix crash in python bindings.
343 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
344 for some, but not all users.
346 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
347 ===========================
354 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
355 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
358 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
359 =========================
361 New build and testing features
362 ------------------------------
364 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
365 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
366 prerequisites is improved.
368 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
370 New command-line features
371 -------------------------
373 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
375 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
376 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
379 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
381 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
382 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
383 favour of using stdout.
385 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
387 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
388 the number of results shown.
390 Add "notmuch count --output" option
392 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
393 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
395 New emacs UI features
396 ---------------------
398 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
400 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
401 starting with "tag:".
403 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
405 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
406 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
408 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
410 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
412 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
414 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
415 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
420 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
422 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
424 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
425 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
426 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
427 requires a database rebuild:
429 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
430 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
432 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
434 New collection of add-on tools
435 ------------------------------
437 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
438 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
439 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
442 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
444 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
445 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
446 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
448 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
449 ========================
451 New, general features
452 ---------------------
454 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
456 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
457 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
458 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
459 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
460 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
467 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
468 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
470 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
474 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
475 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
476 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
479 Python bindings changes
480 -----------------------
482 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
484 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
485 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
486 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
487 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
488 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
489 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
491 Ruby bindings changes
492 ---------------------
494 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
495 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
496 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
497 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
502 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
504 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
505 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
507 Reply formatting cleanup
508 ------------------------
510 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
511 MIME parts are being suppressed.
513 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
514 ========================
516 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
518 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
519 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
520 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
521 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
524 Improved Build system portability
526 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
527 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
528 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
530 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
532 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
534 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
536 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
537 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
538 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
540 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
541 ========================
543 Vim interface improvements
544 --------------------------
546 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
548 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
549 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
550 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
551 * fix from list reformatting in search view
552 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
554 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
556 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
557 * fix compose temp file name
559 Python Bindings changes
560 -----------------------
562 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
564 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
565 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
567 Build-System improvements
568 ------------------------
570 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
572 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
575 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
576 ==========================
581 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
583 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
584 people running gcc 4.4.5.
586 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
587 =======================
588 New, general features
589 ---------------------
590 Folder-based searching
592 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
593 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
594 storage). The syntax is as follows:
598 For example, one might use things such as:
604 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
605 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
607 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
608 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
609 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
610 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
612 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
613 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
614 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
617 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
618 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
620 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
624 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
625 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
626 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
628 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
630 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
631 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
633 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
634 notmuch will receive these tags.
636 New command-line features
637 -------------------------
638 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
640 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
641 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
643 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
645 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
646 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
647 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
649 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
651 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
652 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
653 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
654 which parts a signature part applies).
656 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
658 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
659 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
660 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
661 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
662 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
665 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
667 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
668 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
669 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
670 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
671 by translating it internally to the new call.
673 Performance improvements
674 ------------------------
675 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
677 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
678 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
679 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
681 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
682 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
684 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
686 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
687 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
688 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
690 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
691 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
692 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
693 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
695 Faster initial indexing
697 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
698 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
699 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
701 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
703 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
704 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
705 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
706 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
708 New emacs-interface features
709 ----------------------------
711 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
713 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
714 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
715 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
716 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
717 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
718 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
720 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
722 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
723 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
724 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
725 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
727 User-selectable From address
729 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
730 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
731 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
732 will prompt for the from address to use.
734 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
735 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
736 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
738 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
739 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
740 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
743 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
745 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
746 its parent, the subject is not shown.
748 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
750 When a message contains a line looking something like:
752 ----- Original Message -----
754 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
755 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
756 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
757 citations work much like conventional citations.
759 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
761 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
762 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
763 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
764 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
765 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
767 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
768 Notmuch After Tag Hook
770 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
772 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
773 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
774 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
776 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
778 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
779 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
780 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
781 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
782 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
784 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
786 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
789 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
791 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
793 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
794 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
796 Vim interface improvements
797 --------------------------
798 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
800 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
801 * Implementing archive in show view
802 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
803 * Add delete commands
806 Bindings improvements
807 ---------------------
808 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
810 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
811 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
813 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
814 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
817 - Message().get_filenames(),
818 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
819 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
821 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
822 These allow, for example:
825 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
827 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
832 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
833 Use len(list(Messages())) or
834 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
836 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
838 New build-system features
839 -------------------------
840 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
842 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
843 the configure script from some other directory:
850 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
852 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
853 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
854 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
855 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
856 manual invocation of configure.
858 New test-suite feature
859 ----------------------
860 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
862 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
863 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
864 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
865 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
866 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
869 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
871 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
872 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
873 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
874 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
875 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
876 are updated to take advantage of this.
878 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
880 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
881 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
882 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
883 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
888 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
890 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
891 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
892 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
894 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
896 This fixed a bug where a search for:
898 to:user@elsewhere.com
900 would incorrectly match a message sent:
902 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
904 Fix --output=json when search has no results
906 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
907 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
908 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
911 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
912 from the Received headers in some cases.
914 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
915 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
917 Cleaned up several memory leaks
919 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
921 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
923 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
924 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
925 interface and were never intended to be exported.
927 Emacs-interface bug fixes
928 -------------------------
929 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
931 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
932 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
933 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
935 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
937 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
938 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
939 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
942 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
944 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
945 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
946 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
947 fixed to avoid this bug.
949 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
951 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
952 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
954 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
955 ========================
956 New, general features
957 ---------------------
958 Maildir-flag synchronization
960 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
961 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
970 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
972 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
973 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
974 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
975 renamed with an 'R' flag).
977 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
978 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
979 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
980 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
983 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
985 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
986 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
987 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
989 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
990 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
992 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
993 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
995 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
996 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
997 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1000 --------------------
1001 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1003 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1004 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1005 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1006 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1008 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1009 message with the new function:
1011 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1013 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1014 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1015 all available filenames for a given message.
1017 New command-line features
1018 -------------------------
1019 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1021 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1022 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1023 access to the mail store itself.
1025 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1026 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1027 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1028 name of a script containing:
1030 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1032 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1033 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1038 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1040 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1042 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1044 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1045 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1046 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1047 now produces nothing).
1049 Emacs interface improvements
1050 ----------------------------
1051 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1053 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1055 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1057 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1059 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1061 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1063 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1064 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1065 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1066 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1067 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1068 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1069 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1071 Vim interface improvements
1072 --------------------------
1073 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1075 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1076 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1081 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1083 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1084 ========================
1085 New command-line features
1086 -------------------------
1087 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1089 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1090 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1091 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1093 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1094 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1095 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1096 scripts. For example:
1098 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1099 <operations-on> "$file"
1102 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1104 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1105 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1106 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1107 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1108 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1109 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1111 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1113 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1114 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1115 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1116 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1118 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1120 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1121 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1122 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1123 default rather than Bcc.
1125 New library features
1126 --------------------
1127 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1129 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1130 notmuch_query_t object.
1134 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1136 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1137 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1138 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1139 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1140 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1141 notmuch customize interface.
1143 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1145 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1146 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1147 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1148 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1150 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1152 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1153 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1154 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1155 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1157 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1159 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1160 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1161 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1162 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1163 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1164 notmuch customize interface.
1166 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1168 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1169 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1170 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1171 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1172 notmuch customize interface.
1174 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1176 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1177 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1178 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1179 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1182 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1184 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1185 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1186 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1189 New build-system features
1190 -------------------------
1191 Various portability fixes have been applied
1193 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1194 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1195 more portable than ever before.
1197 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1199 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1200 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1201 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1203 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1204 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1205 automatically run ldconfig.
1207 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1208 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1209 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1211 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1212 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1213 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1214 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1216 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1218 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1219 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1220 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1221 used in the resulting Makefile.
1223 New test-suite features
1224 -----------------------
1225 New modularization of test suite.
1227 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1228 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1229 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1230 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1231 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1232 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1233 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1234 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1236 New testing of emacs interface.
1238 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1239 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1240 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1241 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1242 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1243 database via the FCC setting.
1247 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1249 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1250 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1251 persistent error of the form:
1253 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1255 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1256 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1258 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1260 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1261 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1262 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1264 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1266 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1267 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1268 parsing the notmuch results).
1270 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1272 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1274 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1275 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1276 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1280 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1282 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1283 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1284 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1285 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1286 the emacs interface.
1288 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1290 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1291 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1292 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1294 Python-binding fixes
1295 --------------------
1296 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1298 Debian-specific fixes
1299 ---------------------
1300 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1302 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1303 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1304 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1307 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1308 ==========================
1311 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1313 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1314 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1315 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1316 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1318 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1320 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1321 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1322 want notmuch to crash.
1326 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1328 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1329 directory does not exist.
1333 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1335 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1336 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1338 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1339 ========================
1340 New command-line features
1341 -------------------------
1342 User-configurable tags for new messages
1344 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1345 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1346 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1347 to specify this value.
1349 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1351 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1352 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1353 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1355 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1357 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1358 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1360 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1362 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1363 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1364 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1365 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1366 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1369 Indication of author names that match a search
1371 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1372 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1373 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1374 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1375 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1376 messages in the thread are listed first.
1378 New: Python bindings
1379 --------------------
1380 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1381 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1382 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1383 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1385 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1386 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1387 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1390 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1391 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1392 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1394 Emacs interface improvements
1395 ----------------------------
1396 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1398 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1399 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1400 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1401 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1402 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1403 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1404 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1405 but without any of the disadvantages).
1407 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1408 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1409 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1412 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1413 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1414 recommend instead running something like:
1416 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1418 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1419 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1420 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1423 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1425 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1426 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1427 tweaked by the user.
1429 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1430 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1431 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1434 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1435 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1436 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1439 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1441 This support currently relies on an external program,
1442 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1443 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1444 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1445 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1446 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1449 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1450 notmuch) is available via:
1452 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1454 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1455 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1456 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1458 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1460 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1461 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1462 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1463 making this automatic in a future release.
1465 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1467 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1468 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1469 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1470 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1471 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1472 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1475 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1477 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1478 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1479 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1481 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1483 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1484 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1485 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1487 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1488 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1489 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1490 other representation.
1492 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1493 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1496 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1498 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1499 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1500 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1502 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1503 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1504 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1506 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1508 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1509 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1510 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1511 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1512 to display the search result.
1514 More flexible handling of header visibility
1516 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1517 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1518 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1519 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1520 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1521 with the 'h' keybinding.
1523 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1524 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1525 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1527 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1529 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1531 Customizable formatting of search results
1533 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1534 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1535 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1537 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1539 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1541 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1545 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1547 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1548 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1549 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1550 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1555 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1557 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1558 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1560 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1562 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1563 accept are now all accepted.
1567 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1569 Better display of output from failed tests.
1571 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1572 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1574 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1575 ========================
1576 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1577 detailed release notes this time!
1579 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1580 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1582 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1583 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1584 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1585 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1591 Better guessing of From: header.
1593 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1594 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1595 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1596 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1597 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1600 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1602 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1603 guaranteed to match all messages.
1605 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1607 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1608 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1609 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1610 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1611 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1614 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1617 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1618 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1619 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1620 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1624 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1626 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1627 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1628 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1629 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1631 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1633 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1635 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1636 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1637 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1639 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1641 Previously, the user might see:
1643 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1647 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1649 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1650 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1651 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1652 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1654 Emacs client features
1655 ---------------------
1656 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1658 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1659 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1660 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1661 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1662 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1664 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1667 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1668 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1669 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1670 search with the '*' binding.
1672 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1674 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1675 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1678 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1680 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1681 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1682 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1684 Build-system features
1685 ---------------------
1686 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1688 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1690 We include actual support for:
1692 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1694 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1696 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1697 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1699 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1700 separate "make install-emacs".
1702 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1704 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1705 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1706 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1708 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1711 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1712 ========================
1713 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1715 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1716 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1718 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1719 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1720 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1721 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1722 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1723 tags from messages in a thread.