1 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2 ===========================
7 Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
8 compilation error for this contrib package.
10 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
11 ===========================
16 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
18 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
19 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
20 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
21 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
23 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
24 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
27 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
28 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
29 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
30 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
33 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
35 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
38 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
39 =========================
41 Command-Line Interface
42 ----------------------
46 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
47 for a reply message and full information about the original message
48 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
49 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
51 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
52 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
53 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
54 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
58 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
59 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
61 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
62 tag in your query, for example:
64 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
66 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
67 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
69 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
70 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
72 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
74 Raw show format changes
76 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
77 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
78 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
79 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
80 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
81 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
82 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
83 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
85 Listing configuration items
87 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
93 Changes to tagging interface
95 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
96 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
97 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
98 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
99 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
100 for more information.
102 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
103 may need to update in custom configurations.
105 Reply improvement using the JSON format
107 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
108 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
109 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
110 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
113 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
114 -----------------------------
116 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
117 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
118 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
119 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
120 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
121 contrib/ from now on.
126 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
127 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
129 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
130 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
132 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
133 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
134 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
136 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
137 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
139 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
140 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
141 returning the new database object or directory object.
148 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
149 compatible with go 1.
151 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
152 =========================
154 Command-Line Interface
155 ----------------------
159 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
160 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
161 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
162 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
164 Mail store folder/file ignore
166 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
167 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
168 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
170 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
171 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
173 Unified help and manual pages
175 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
176 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
179 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
181 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
182 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
190 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
191 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
192 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
193 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
195 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
197 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
198 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
200 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
203 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
204 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
205 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
207 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
209 should be changed to:
211 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
213 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
215 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
216 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
218 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
220 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
221 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
222 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
223 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
224 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
225 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
229 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
230 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
231 of Mailing List Archives.
233 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
235 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
236 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
239 Show view archiving key binding changes
241 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
242 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
243 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
244 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
245 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
248 Support text/calendar MIME type
250 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
253 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
255 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
256 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
257 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
258 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
260 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
262 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
263 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
264 messages blue by default in the search view.
268 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
269 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
276 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
279 Python bindings changes
280 -----------------------
282 Python 3.2 compatibility
284 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
286 Added missing unicode conversions
288 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
289 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
290 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
295 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
297 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
298 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
299 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
300 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
301 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
303 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
304 ===========================
309 Fix error handling in python bindings
311 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
312 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
313 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
314 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
316 Quote MML tags in replies
318 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
319 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
320 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
321 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
322 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
323 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
324 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
325 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
327 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
328 =========================
330 Command-Line Interface
331 ----------------------
335 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
336 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
337 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
338 importing new messages into the database.
340 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
342 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
343 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
344 sometimes. This is now fixed.
349 Automatic tag query optimization
351 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
352 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
353 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
355 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
357 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
358 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
359 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
364 Reduction of memory leaks
366 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
367 and fixed in this release.
374 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
375 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
376 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
379 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
381 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
382 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
383 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
386 Improvements in saved search management
388 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
389 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
390 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
392 Hooks for notmuch-hello
394 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
395 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
396 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
398 New face for crypto parts headers
400 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
401 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
402 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
405 Use space as default thousands separator
407 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
408 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
409 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
411 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
414 New function notmuch-show-advance
416 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
417 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
418 be bound to SPC with:
420 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
422 Various performance improvements
427 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
428 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
431 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
432 ===========================
437 Fix crash in python bindings
439 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
440 for some, but not all users.
442 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
443 ===========================
448 Fix `--help` argument
450 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
451 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
452 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
454 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
455 =========================
457 New build and testing features
458 ------------------------------
460 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
461 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
462 prerequisites is improved.
464 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
466 New command-line features
467 -------------------------
469 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
471 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
472 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
475 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
477 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
478 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
479 favour of using stdout.
481 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
483 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
484 limit the number of results shown.
486 Add `notmuch count --output` option
488 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
489 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
492 New emacs UI features
493 ---------------------
495 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
497 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
498 starting with "tag:".
500 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
502 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
503 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
505 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
507 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
509 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
511 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
512 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
517 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
519 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
521 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
522 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
523 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
524 requires a database rebuild:
526 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
527 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
529 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
531 New collection of add-on tools
532 ------------------------------
534 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
535 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
536 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
539 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
541 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
542 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
543 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
545 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
546 ========================
548 New, general features
549 ---------------------
551 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
553 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
554 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
555 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
556 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
557 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
564 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
565 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
567 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
571 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
572 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
573 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
576 Python bindings changes
577 -----------------------
579 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
581 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
582 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
583 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
584 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
585 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
586 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
588 Ruby bindings changes
589 ---------------------
591 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
592 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
593 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
594 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
599 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
601 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
602 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
604 Reply formatting cleanup
605 ------------------------
607 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
608 MIME parts are being suppressed.
610 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
611 ========================
613 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
615 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
616 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
617 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
618 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
621 Improved Build system portability
623 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
624 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
625 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
627 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
629 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
631 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
633 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
634 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
635 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
637 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
638 ========================
640 Vim interface improvements
641 --------------------------
643 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
645 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
646 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
647 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
648 * fix from list reformatting in search view
649 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
651 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
653 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
654 * fix compose temp file name
656 Python Bindings changes
657 -----------------------
659 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
661 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
662 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
664 Build-System improvements
665 -------------------------
667 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
669 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
672 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
673 ==========================
678 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
680 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
681 people running gcc 4.4.5.
683 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
684 =======================
686 New, general features
687 ---------------------
689 Folder-based searching
691 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
692 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
693 storage). The syntax is as follows:
697 For example, one might use things such as:
703 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
704 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
706 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
707 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
708 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
709 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
711 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
712 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
713 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
716 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
717 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
719 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
723 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
724 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
725 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
727 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
729 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
730 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
732 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
733 notmuch will receive these tags.
735 New command-line features
736 -------------------------
738 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
740 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
741 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
743 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
745 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
746 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
747 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
749 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
751 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
752 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
753 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
754 which parts a signature part applies).
756 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
758 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
759 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
760 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
761 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
762 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
765 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
767 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
768 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
769 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
770 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
771 by translating it internally to the new call.
773 Performance improvements
774 ------------------------
776 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
778 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
779 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
780 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
782 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
783 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
785 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
787 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
788 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
789 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
791 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
792 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
793 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
794 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
796 Faster initial indexing
798 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
799 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
800 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
802 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
804 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
805 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
806 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
807 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
809 New emacs-interface features
810 ----------------------------
812 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
814 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
815 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
816 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
817 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
818 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
819 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
821 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
823 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
824 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
825 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
826 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
828 User-selectable From address
830 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
831 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
832 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
833 will prompt for the from address to use.
835 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
836 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
837 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
839 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
840 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
841 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
844 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
846 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
847 its parent, the subject is not shown.
849 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
851 When a message contains a line looking something like:
853 ----- Original Message -----
855 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
856 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
857 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
858 citations work much like conventional citations.
860 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
862 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
863 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
864 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
865 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
866 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
868 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
869 Notmuch After Tag Hook
871 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
873 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
874 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
875 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
877 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
879 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
880 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
881 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
882 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
883 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
885 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
887 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
890 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
892 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
894 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
896 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
899 Vim interface improvements
900 --------------------------
902 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
904 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
905 * Implementing archive in show view
906 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
907 * Add delete commands
910 Bindings improvements
911 ---------------------
913 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
915 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
916 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
918 Python bindings have been updated and extended
920 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
924 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
925 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
926 `list(Messages)` works now
927 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
929 These allow, for example:
933 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
935 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
941 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
943 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
946 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
948 New build-system features
949 -------------------------
951 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
953 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
954 the configure script from some other directory:
961 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
963 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
964 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
965 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
966 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
967 manual invocation of configure.
969 New test-suite feature
970 ----------------------
972 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
974 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
975 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
976 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
977 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
978 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
981 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
983 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
984 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
985 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
986 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
987 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
988 are updated to take advantage of this.
990 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
992 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
993 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
994 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
995 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1001 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1003 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1004 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1005 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1007 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1009 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1011 to:user@elsewhere.com
1013 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1015 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1017 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1019 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1020 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1021 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1024 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1025 from the Received headers in some cases
1027 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1028 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1030 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1032 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1034 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1036 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1037 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1038 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1040 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1041 -------------------------
1043 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1045 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1046 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1047 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1049 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1051 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1052 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1053 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1056 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1058 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1059 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1060 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1061 fixed to avoid this bug.
1063 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1065 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1066 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1068 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1069 ========================
1071 New, general features
1072 ---------------------
1074 Maildir-flag synchronization
1076 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1077 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1086 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1088 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1089 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1090 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1091 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1093 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1094 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1095 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1096 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1099 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1101 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1102 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1103 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1105 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1106 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1108 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1109 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1111 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1112 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1113 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1115 New library features
1116 --------------------
1118 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1120 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1121 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1122 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1123 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1125 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1126 message with the new function:
1128 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1130 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1131 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1132 over all available filenames for a given message.
1134 New command-line features
1135 -------------------------
1137 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1139 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1140 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1141 access to the mail store itself.
1143 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1144 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1145 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1146 name of a script containing:
1148 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1150 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1151 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1157 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1159 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1161 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1163 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1164 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1165 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1166 now produces nothing).
1168 Emacs interface improvements
1169 ----------------------------
1171 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1173 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1175 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1177 Display current thread subject in a header line
1179 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1181 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1183 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1184 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1185 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1186 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1187 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1188 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1189 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1191 Vim interface improvements
1192 --------------------------
1194 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1196 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1197 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1203 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1205 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1206 ========================
1208 New command-line features
1209 -------------------------
1211 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1213 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1214 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1215 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1217 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1218 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1219 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1220 scripts. For example:
1222 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1223 <operations-on> "$file"
1226 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1228 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1229 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1230 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1231 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1232 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1233 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1235 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1237 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1238 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1239 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1240 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1242 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1244 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1245 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1246 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1247 default rather than Bcc.
1249 New library features
1250 --------------------
1252 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1254 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1255 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1260 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1262 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1263 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1264 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1265 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1266 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1267 notmuch customize interface.
1269 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1271 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1272 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1273 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1274 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1276 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1278 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1279 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1280 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1281 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1283 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1285 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1286 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1287 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1288 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1289 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1290 notmuch customize interface.
1292 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1294 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1295 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1296 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1297 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1298 notmuch customize interface.
1300 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1302 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1303 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1304 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1305 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1308 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1310 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1311 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1312 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1315 New build-system features
1316 -------------------------
1318 Various portability fixes have been applied
1320 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1321 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1322 more portable than ever before.
1324 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1326 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1327 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1328 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1330 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1331 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1332 automatically run ldconfig.
1334 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1335 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1336 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1338 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1339 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1340 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1341 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1343 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1345 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1346 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1347 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1348 used in the resulting Makefile.
1350 New test-suite features
1351 -----------------------
1353 New modularization of test suite
1355 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1356 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1357 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1358 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1359 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1360 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1361 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1362 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1364 New testing of emacs interface
1366 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1367 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1368 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1369 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1370 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1371 database via the FCC setting.
1376 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1378 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1379 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1380 persistent error of the form:
1382 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1384 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1385 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1387 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1389 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1390 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1391 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1393 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1395 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1396 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1397 parsing the notmuch results).
1399 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1401 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1404 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1405 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1406 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1411 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1413 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1414 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1415 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1416 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1417 the emacs interface.
1419 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1421 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1422 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1423 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1425 Python-binding fixes
1426 --------------------
1428 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1430 Debian-specific fixes
1431 ---------------------
1433 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1435 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1436 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1437 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1440 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1441 ==========================
1446 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1448 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1449 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1450 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1451 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1453 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1455 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1456 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1457 want notmuch to crash.
1462 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1464 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1465 directory does not exist
1470 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1472 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1473 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1475 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1476 ========================
1478 New command-line features
1479 -------------------------
1481 User-configurable tags for new messages
1483 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1484 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1485 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1486 to specify this value.
1488 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1490 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1491 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1492 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1494 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1496 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1497 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1499 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1501 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1502 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1503 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1504 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1505 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1508 Indication of author names that match a search
1510 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1511 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1512 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1513 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1514 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1515 messages in the thread are listed first.
1517 New: Python bindings
1518 --------------------
1520 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1521 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1522 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1523 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1525 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1526 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1527 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1530 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1531 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1532 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1534 Emacs interface improvements
1535 ----------------------------
1537 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1539 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1540 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1541 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1542 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1543 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1544 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1545 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1546 but without any of the disadvantages).
1548 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1549 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1550 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1553 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1554 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1555 instead running something like:
1557 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1559 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1560 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1561 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1564 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1566 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1567 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1568 tweaked by the user.
1570 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1571 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1572 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1575 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1576 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1577 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1580 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1582 This support currently relies on an external program,
1583 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1584 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1585 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1586 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1587 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1590 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1591 notmuch) is available via:
1593 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1595 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1596 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1597 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1599 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1601 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1602 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1603 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1604 making this automatic in a future release.
1606 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1608 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1609 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1610 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1611 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1612 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1613 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1616 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1618 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1619 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1620 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1622 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1624 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1625 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1626 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1628 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1629 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1630 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1631 other representation.
1633 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1634 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1637 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1639 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1640 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1641 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1643 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1644 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1645 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1647 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1649 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1650 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1651 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1652 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1653 to display the search result.
1655 More flexible handling of header visibility
1657 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1658 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1659 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1660 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1661 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1662 with the 'h' keybinding.
1664 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1665 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1666 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1668 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1670 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1672 Customizable formatting of search results
1674 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1675 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1676 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1678 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1680 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1682 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1687 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1689 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1690 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1691 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1692 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1698 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1700 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1701 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1703 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1705 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1706 accept are now all accepted.
1711 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1713 Better display of output from failed tests
1715 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1716 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1718 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1719 ========================
1721 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1722 detailed release notes this time!
1724 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1725 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1727 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1728 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1729 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1730 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1737 Better guessing of From: header
1739 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1740 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1741 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1742 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1743 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1746 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1748 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1749 guaranteed to match all messages.
1751 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1753 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1754 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1755 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1756 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1757 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1760 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1763 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1764 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1765 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1766 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1771 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1773 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1774 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1775 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1776 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1778 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1780 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1782 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1783 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1784 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1786 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1788 Previously, the user might see:
1790 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1794 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1796 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1797 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1798 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1799 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1801 Emacs client features
1802 ---------------------
1804 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1806 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1807 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1808 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1809 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1810 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1812 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1815 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1816 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1817 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1818 search with the '*' binding.
1820 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1822 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1823 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1826 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1828 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1829 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1830 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1832 Build-system features
1833 ---------------------
1835 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1837 Add support to configure for many standard options
1839 We include actual support for:
1841 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1843 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1845 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1846 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1848 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1849 separate "make install-emacs"
1851 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1853 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1854 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1855 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1857 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1860 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1861 ========================
1863 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1865 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1866 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1868 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1869 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1870 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1871 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1872 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1873 tags from messages in a thread.
1880 indent-tabs-mode: nil