1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
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).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
23 Unified help and manual pages
25 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
26 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
29 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
31 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
32 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
40 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
41 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
42 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
43 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
45 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
47 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
48 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
50 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
53 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
54 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
55 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
57 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
61 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
63 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
65 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
66 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
68 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
70 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
71 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
72 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
73 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
74 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
75 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
79 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
80 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
81 of Mailing List Archives.
83 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
85 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
86 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
89 Show view archiving key binding changes
91 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
92 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
93 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
94 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
95 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
98 Support text/calendar MIME type
100 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
103 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
105 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
106 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
107 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
108 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
110 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
112 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
113 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
114 messages blue by default in the search view.
121 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
124 Python bindings changes
125 -----------------------
127 Python 3.2 compatibility
129 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
131 Added missing unicode conversions
133 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
134 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
135 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
140 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
142 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
143 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
144 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
145 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
146 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
148 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
149 ===========================
154 Fix error handling in python bindings.
156 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
157 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
158 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
159 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
161 Quote MML tags in replies
163 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
164 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
165 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
166 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
167 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
168 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
169 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
170 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
172 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
173 =========================
175 Command-Line Interface
176 ----------------------
180 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
181 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
182 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
183 importing new messages into the database.
185 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
187 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
188 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
189 sometimes. This is now fixed.
194 Automatic tag query optimization
196 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
197 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
198 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
200 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
202 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
203 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
204 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
209 Reduction of memory leaks
211 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
212 and fixed in this release.
219 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
220 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
221 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
224 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
226 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
227 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
228 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
231 Improvements in saved search management
233 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
234 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
235 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
237 Hooks for notmuch-hello
239 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
240 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
241 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
243 New face for crypto parts headers
245 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
246 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
247 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
250 Use space as default thousands separator
252 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
253 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
254 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
256 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
257 buttonized id: links.
259 New function notmuch-show-advance
261 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
262 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
263 be bound to SPC with:
265 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
267 Various performance improvements.
272 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
273 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
276 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
277 ===========================
282 Fix crash in python bindings.
284 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
285 for some, but not all users.
287 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
288 ===========================
295 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
296 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
299 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
300 =========================
302 New build and testing features
303 ------------------------------
305 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
306 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
307 prerequisites is improved.
309 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
311 New command-line features
312 -------------------------
314 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
316 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
317 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
320 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
322 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
323 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
324 favour of using stdout.
326 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
328 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
329 the number of results shown.
331 Add "notmuch count --output" option
333 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
334 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
336 New emacs UI features
337 ---------------------
339 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
341 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
342 starting with "tag:".
344 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
346 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
347 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
349 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
351 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
353 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
355 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
356 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
361 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
363 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
365 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
366 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
367 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
368 requires a database rebuild:
370 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
371 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
373 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
375 New collection of add-on tools
376 ------------------------------
378 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
379 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
380 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
383 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
385 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
386 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
387 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
389 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
390 ========================
392 New, general features
393 ---------------------
395 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
397 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
398 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
399 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
400 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
401 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
408 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
409 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
411 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
415 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
416 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
417 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
420 Python bindings changes
421 -----------------------
423 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
425 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
426 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
427 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
428 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
429 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
430 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
432 Ruby bindings changes
433 ---------------------
435 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
436 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
437 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
438 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
443 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
445 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
446 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
448 Reply formatting cleanup
449 ------------------------
451 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
452 MIME parts are being suppressed.
454 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
455 ========================
457 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
459 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
460 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
461 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
462 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
465 Improved Build system portability
467 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
468 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
469 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
471 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
473 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
475 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
477 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
478 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
479 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
481 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
482 ========================
484 Vim interface improvements
485 --------------------------
487 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
489 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
490 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
491 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
492 * fix from list reformatting in search view
493 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
495 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
497 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
498 * fix compose temp file name
500 Python Bindings changes
501 -----------------------
503 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
505 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
506 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
508 Build-System improvements
509 ------------------------
511 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
513 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
516 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
517 ==========================
522 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
524 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
525 people running gcc 4.4.5.
527 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
528 =======================
529 New, general features
530 ---------------------
531 Folder-based searching
533 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
534 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
535 storage). The syntax is as follows:
539 For example, one might use things such as:
545 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
546 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
548 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
549 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
550 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
551 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
553 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
554 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
555 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
558 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
559 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
561 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
565 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
566 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
567 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
569 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
571 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
572 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
574 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
575 notmuch will receive these tags.
577 New command-line features
578 -------------------------
579 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
581 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
582 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
584 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
586 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
587 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
588 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
590 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
592 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
593 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
594 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
595 which parts a signature part applies).
597 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
599 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
600 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
601 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
602 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
603 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
606 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
608 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
609 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
610 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
611 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
612 by translating it internally to the new call.
614 Performance improvements
615 ------------------------
616 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
618 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
619 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
620 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
622 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
623 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
625 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
627 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
628 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
629 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
631 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
632 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
633 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
634 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
636 Faster initial indexing
638 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
639 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
640 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
642 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
644 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
645 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
646 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
647 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
649 New emacs-interface features
650 ----------------------------
652 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
654 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
655 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
656 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
657 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
658 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
659 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
661 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
663 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
664 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
665 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
666 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
668 User-selectable From address
670 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
671 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
672 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
673 will prompt for the from address to use.
675 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
676 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
677 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
679 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
680 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
681 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
684 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
686 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
687 its parent, the subject is not shown.
689 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
691 When a message contains a line looking something like:
693 ----- Original Message -----
695 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
696 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
697 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
698 citations work much like conventional citations.
700 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
702 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
703 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
704 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
705 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
706 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
708 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
709 Notmuch After Tag Hook
711 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
713 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
714 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
715 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
717 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
719 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
720 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
721 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
722 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
723 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
725 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
727 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
730 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
732 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
734 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
735 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
737 Vim interface improvements
738 --------------------------
739 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
741 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
742 * Implementing archive in show view
743 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
744 * Add delete commands
747 Bindings improvements
748 ---------------------
749 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
751 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
752 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
754 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
755 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
758 - Message().get_filenames(),
759 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
760 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
762 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
763 These allow, for example:
766 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
768 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
773 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
774 Use len(list(Messages())) or
775 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
777 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
779 New build-system features
780 -------------------------
781 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
783 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
784 the configure script from some other directory:
791 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
793 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
794 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
795 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
796 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
797 manual invocation of configure.
799 New test-suite feature
800 ----------------------
801 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
803 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
804 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
805 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
806 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
807 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
810 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
812 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
813 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
814 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
815 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
816 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
817 are updated to take advantage of this.
819 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
821 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
822 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
823 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
824 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
829 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
831 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
832 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
833 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
835 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
837 This fixed a bug where a search for:
839 to:user@elsewhere.com
841 would incorrectly match a message sent:
843 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
845 Fix --output=json when search has no results
847 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
848 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
849 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
852 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
853 from the Received headers in some cases.
855 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
856 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
858 Cleaned up several memory leaks
860 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
862 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
864 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
865 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
866 interface and were never intended to be exported.
868 Emacs-interface bug fixes
869 -------------------------
870 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
872 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
873 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
874 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
876 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
878 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
879 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
880 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
883 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
885 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
886 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
887 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
888 fixed to avoid this bug.
890 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
892 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
893 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
895 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
896 ========================
897 New, general features
898 ---------------------
899 Maildir-flag synchronization
901 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
902 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
911 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
913 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
914 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
915 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
916 renamed with an 'R' flag).
918 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
919 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
920 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
921 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
924 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
926 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
927 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
928 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
930 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
931 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
933 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
934 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
936 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
937 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
938 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
942 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
944 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
945 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
946 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
947 notmuch_message_get_filename).
949 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
950 message with the new function:
952 notmuch_message_get_filenames
954 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
955 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
956 all available filenames for a given message.
958 New command-line features
959 -------------------------
960 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
962 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
963 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
964 access to the mail store itself.
966 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
967 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
968 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
969 name of a script containing:
971 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
973 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
974 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
979 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
981 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
983 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
985 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
986 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
987 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
988 now produces nothing).
990 Emacs interface improvements
991 ----------------------------
992 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
994 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
996 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
998 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1000 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1002 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1004 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1005 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1006 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1007 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1008 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1009 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1010 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1012 Vim interface improvements
1013 --------------------------
1014 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1016 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1017 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1022 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1024 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1025 ========================
1026 New command-line features
1027 -------------------------
1028 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1030 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1031 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1032 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1034 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1035 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1036 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1037 scripts. For example:
1039 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1040 <operations-on> "$file"
1043 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1045 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1046 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1047 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1048 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1049 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1050 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1052 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1054 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1055 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1056 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1057 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1059 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1061 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1062 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1063 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1064 default rather than Bcc.
1066 New library features
1067 --------------------
1068 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1070 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1071 notmuch_query_t object.
1075 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1077 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1078 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1079 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1080 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1081 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1082 notmuch customize interface.
1084 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1086 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1087 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1088 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1089 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1091 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1093 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1094 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1095 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1096 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1098 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1100 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1101 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1102 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1103 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1104 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1105 notmuch customize interface.
1107 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1109 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1110 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1111 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1112 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1113 notmuch customize interface.
1115 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1117 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1118 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1119 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1120 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1123 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1125 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1126 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1127 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1130 New build-system features
1131 -------------------------
1132 Various portability fixes have been applied
1134 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1135 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1136 more portable than ever before.
1138 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1140 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1141 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1142 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1144 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1145 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1146 automatically run ldconfig.
1148 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1149 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1150 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1152 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1153 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1154 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1155 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1157 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1159 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1160 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1161 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1162 used in the resulting Makefile.
1164 New test-suite features
1165 -----------------------
1166 New modularization of test suite.
1168 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1169 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1170 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1171 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1172 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1173 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1174 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1175 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1177 New testing of emacs interface.
1179 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1180 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1181 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1182 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1183 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1184 database via the FCC setting.
1188 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1190 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1191 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1192 persistent error of the form:
1194 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1196 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1197 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1199 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1201 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1202 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1203 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1205 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1207 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1208 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1209 parsing the notmuch results).
1211 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1213 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1215 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1216 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1217 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1221 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1223 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1224 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1225 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1226 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1227 the emacs interface.
1229 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1231 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1232 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1233 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1235 Python-binding fixes
1236 --------------------
1237 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1239 Debian-specific fixes
1240 ---------------------
1241 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1243 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1244 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1245 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1248 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1249 ==========================
1252 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1254 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1255 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1256 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1257 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1259 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1261 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1262 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1263 want notmuch to crash.
1267 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1269 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1270 directory does not exist.
1274 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1276 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1277 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1279 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1280 ========================
1281 New command-line features
1282 -------------------------
1283 User-configurable tags for new messages
1285 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1286 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1287 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1288 to specify this value.
1290 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1292 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1293 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1294 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1296 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1298 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1299 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1301 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1303 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1304 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1305 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1306 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1307 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1310 Indication of author names that match a search
1312 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1313 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1314 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1315 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1316 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1317 messages in the thread are listed first.
1319 New: Python bindings
1320 --------------------
1321 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1322 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1323 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1324 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1326 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1327 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1328 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1331 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1332 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1333 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1335 Emacs interface improvements
1336 ----------------------------
1337 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1339 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1340 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1341 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1342 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1343 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1344 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1345 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1346 but without any of the disadvantages).
1348 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1349 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1350 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1353 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1354 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1355 recommend instead running something like:
1357 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1359 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1360 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1361 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1364 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1366 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1367 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1368 tweaked by the user.
1370 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1371 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1372 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1375 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1376 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1377 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1380 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1382 This support currently relies on an external program,
1383 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1384 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1385 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1386 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1387 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1390 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1391 notmuch) is available via:
1393 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1395 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1396 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1397 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1399 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1401 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1402 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1403 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1404 making this automatic in a future release.
1406 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1408 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1409 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1410 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1411 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1412 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1413 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1416 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1418 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1419 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1420 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1422 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1424 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1425 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1426 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1428 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1429 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1430 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1431 other representation.
1433 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1434 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1437 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1439 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1440 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1441 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1443 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1444 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1445 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1447 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1449 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1450 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1451 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1452 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1453 to display the search result.
1455 More flexible handling of header visibility
1457 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1458 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1459 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1460 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1461 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1462 with the 'h' keybinding.
1464 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1465 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1466 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1468 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1470 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1472 Customizable formatting of search results
1474 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1475 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1476 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1478 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1480 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1482 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1486 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1488 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1489 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1490 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1491 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1496 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1498 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1499 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1501 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1503 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1504 accept are now all accepted.
1508 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1510 Better display of output from failed tests.
1512 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1513 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1515 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1516 ========================
1517 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1518 detailed release notes this time!
1520 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1521 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1523 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1524 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1525 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1526 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1532 Better guessing of From: header.
1534 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1535 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1536 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1537 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1538 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1541 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1543 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1544 guaranteed to match all messages.
1546 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1548 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1549 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1550 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1551 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1552 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1555 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1558 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1559 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1560 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1561 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1565 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1567 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1568 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1569 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1570 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1572 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1574 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1576 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1577 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1578 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1580 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1582 Previously, the user might see:
1584 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1588 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1590 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1591 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1592 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1593 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1595 Emacs client features
1596 ---------------------
1597 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1599 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1600 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1601 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1602 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1603 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1605 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1608 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1609 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1610 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1611 search with the '*' binding.
1613 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1615 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1616 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1619 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1621 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1622 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1623 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1625 Build-system features
1626 ---------------------
1627 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1629 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1631 We include actual support for:
1633 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1635 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1637 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1638 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1640 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1641 separate "make install-emacs".
1643 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1645 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1646 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1647 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1649 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1652 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1653 ========================
1654 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1656 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1657 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1659 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1660 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1661 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1662 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1663 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1664 tags from messages in a thread.