1 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
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3 New command-line features
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5 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
7 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
8 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
9 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
11 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
12 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
13 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
16 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
17 <operations-on> "$file"
20 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
22 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
23 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
24 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
25 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
26 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
27 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
29 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
31 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
32 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
33 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
34 custom items stored in the configuration file.
36 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
38 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
39 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
40 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
41 default rather than Bcc.
45 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
47 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
48 notmuch_query_t object.
52 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
54 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
55 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
56 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
57 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
58 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
59 notmuch customize interface.
61 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
63 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
64 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
65 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
66 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
68 Optional support for detecting inline patches
70 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
71 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
72 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
73 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
75 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
77 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
78 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
79 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
80 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
81 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
82 notmuch customize interface.
84 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
86 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
87 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
88 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
89 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
90 notmuch customize interface.
92 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
94 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
95 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
96 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
97 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
100 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
102 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
103 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
104 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
107 New build-system features
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109 Various portability fixes have been applied
111 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
112 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
113 more portable than ever before.
115 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
117 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
118 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
119 after installing. This support takes two forms:
121 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
122 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
123 automatically run ldconfig.
125 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
126 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
127 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
129 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
130 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
131 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
132 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
134 Check compiler/linker options before using them
136 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
137 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
138 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
139 used in the resulting Makefile.
141 New test-suite features
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143 New modularization of test suite.
145 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
146 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
147 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
148 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
149 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
150 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
151 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
152 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
154 New testing of emacs interface.
156 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
157 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
158 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
159 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
160 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
161 database via the FCC setting.
165 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
167 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
168 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
169 persistent error of the form:
171 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
173 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
174 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
176 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
178 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
179 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
180 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
182 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
184 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
185 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
186 parsing the notmuch results).
188 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
190 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
192 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
193 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
194 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
198 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
200 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
201 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
202 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
203 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
206 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
208 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
209 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
210 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
214 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
216 Debian-specific fixes
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218 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
220 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
221 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
222 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would