1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
10 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
15 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
20 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
22 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
23 parts are now included in replies.
25 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
26 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
27 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
28 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
30 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
32 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
34 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
36 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
37 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
38 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
39 forwards only the current message.
41 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
43 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
44 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
45 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
46 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
47 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
48 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
49 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
50 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
53 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
54 longer generate empty buffers
56 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
57 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
58 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
59 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
60 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
62 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
64 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
70 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
71 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
72 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
78 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
79 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
80 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
81 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
82 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
83 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
85 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
86 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
87 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
88 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
89 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
90 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
92 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
93 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
95 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
96 =========================
101 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
104 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
106 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
107 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
108 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
110 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
111 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
113 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
114 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
115 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
117 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
119 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
120 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
121 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
122 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
123 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
124 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
129 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
130 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
133 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
136 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
138 Command Line Interface
139 ----------------------
141 Database revision tracking
143 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
144 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
145 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
146 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
148 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
150 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
151 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
152 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
153 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
154 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
155 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
156 manual page for further information.
161 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
163 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
164 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
166 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
168 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
169 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
170 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
172 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
174 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
176 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
177 customization as well.
179 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
181 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
183 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
185 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
187 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
188 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
189 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
190 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
192 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
194 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
195 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
196 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
197 this variable to 10000.
202 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
203 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
205 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
207 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
208 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
209 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
210 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
211 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
212 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
213 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
214 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
215 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
218 Database revision tracking
220 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
221 query parser and the new function
222 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
224 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
228 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
229 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
230 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
231 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
236 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
238 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
239 ===========================
244 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
246 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
247 ===========================
252 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
254 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
255 =========================
257 Command-Line Interface
258 ----------------------
260 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
262 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
263 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
264 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
266 Path to gpg is now configurable
268 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
269 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
274 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
276 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
281 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
286 Support messages without Message-IDs.
291 Undeprecate single message mboxes
293 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
294 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
296 New error logging facility
298 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
299 output formerly printed to stderr.
301 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
303 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
305 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
307 Fix for rounding of seconds
312 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
314 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
315 docmumentation has been removed.
317 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
319 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
320 some material from the relicensed wiki.
325 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
326 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
327 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
332 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
333 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
334 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
335 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
336 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
337 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
340 git checkout config origin/config
342 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
344 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
345 =========================
350 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
351 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
352 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
353 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
354 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
355 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
356 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
358 Command-Line Interface
359 ----------------------
361 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
363 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
364 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
365 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
366 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
367 script callers should still check the return value.
369 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
371 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
372 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
373 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
374 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
375 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
376 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
377 and returning success even if indexing fails).
379 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
381 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
382 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
383 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
385 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
387 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
388 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
389 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
390 currently unmaintained.
392 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
394 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
395 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
396 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
397 have at least `N` files associated with them.
399 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
401 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
402 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
403 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
404 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
405 count of duplicate addresses.
410 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
412 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
413 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
414 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
417 Improved handling of the unread tag
419 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
420 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
421 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
422 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
423 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
424 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
425 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
427 Expanded default saved search settings
429 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
430 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
432 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
434 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
435 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
436 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
438 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
440 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
441 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
442 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
443 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
444 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
445 the variable for details.
450 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
452 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
453 Representing these independently of the database version number will
454 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
455 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
457 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
459 Previously, library users were required to call
460 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
461 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
462 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
463 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
464 too out of date for that API.
466 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
468 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
469 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
470 atomic section will be aborted.
472 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
473 `notmuch_database_destroy`
475 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
477 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
478 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
479 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
480 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
481 messages into the same thread.
486 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
487 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
488 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
489 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
490 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
491 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
496 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
497 from the config file. Use something like:
501 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
502 "footer": "</body></html>",
511 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
516 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
517 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
518 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
520 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
521 ===========================
526 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
528 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
530 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
532 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
533 structure for signatures changed slightly.
535 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
537 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
540 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
541 ===========================
543 This is a bug fix and portability release.
548 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
550 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
552 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
554 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
556 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
562 Use --quick when starting emacs
564 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
566 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
568 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
570 Command-Line Interface
571 ----------------------
573 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
574 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
579 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
581 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
582 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
584 Fix for phrase indexing
586 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
587 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
588 will affect only newly indexed messages.
593 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
595 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
596 unintentionally removed.
598 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
599 =========================
604 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
605 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
606 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
607 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
608 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
609 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
610 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
611 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
612 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
618 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
620 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
621 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
622 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
623 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
624 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
625 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
626 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
627 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
629 There is a new `path:` search prefix
631 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
632 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
633 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
634 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
637 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
639 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
640 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
641 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
642 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
643 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
644 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
645 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
650 Notmuch database upgrade
652 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
653 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
654 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
655 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
656 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
657 released version of Notmuch before now.
659 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
661 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
662 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
663 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
664 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
666 Message header parsing changes
668 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
669 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
670 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
671 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
672 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
673 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
675 Command-Line Interface
676 ----------------------
678 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
680 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
682 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
684 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
686 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
688 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
689 user does not want it.
691 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
693 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
694 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
695 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
696 support formatted output.
698 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
700 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
701 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
702 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
710 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
711 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
712 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
713 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
714 `~/.emacs` with these.
716 Changed format for saved searches
718 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
719 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
720 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
721 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
724 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
725 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
726 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
727 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
729 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
730 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
731 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
733 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
734 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
735 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
736 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
737 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
739 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
741 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
742 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
743 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
745 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
747 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
748 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
749 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
750 message had been unread).
752 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
753 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
754 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
755 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
757 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
758 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
759 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
761 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
762 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
763 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
764 to tags already present.
768 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
769 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
770 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
771 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
772 these differ from each other.
773 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
775 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
777 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
778 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
779 for these Emacs versions.
781 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
783 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
784 newlines before calling notmuch count.
786 Bug fixes for sender identities
788 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
789 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
790 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
792 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
794 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
795 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
796 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
797 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
799 Reply pushes mark before signature
801 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
802 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
803 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
805 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
807 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
808 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
814 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
815 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
817 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
818 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
819 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
820 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
822 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
823 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
824 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
825 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
826 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
828 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
830 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
831 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
833 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
834 =========================
836 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
837 ---------------------------------------
839 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
840 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
841 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
842 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
843 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
844 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
845 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
849 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
850 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
852 Command-Line Interface
853 ----------------------
855 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
857 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
858 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
859 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
860 print for each message.
862 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
863 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
864 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
865 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
867 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
869 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
870 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
871 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
873 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
875 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
876 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
877 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
878 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
880 `notmuch compact` command
882 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
883 functionality through a more convenient interface than
884 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
885 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
886 move the compacted database into place.
891 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
893 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
894 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
895 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
896 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
897 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
898 and multiple threads.
902 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
904 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
905 search, show and tree mode itself)
907 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
910 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
911 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
913 Customising `notmuch-tree`
915 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
916 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
917 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
918 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
919 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
920 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
921 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
923 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
925 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
926 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
927 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
928 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
929 thread when the search was performed.
931 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
933 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
934 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
935 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
937 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
939 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
940 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
943 Built-in help improvements
945 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
946 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
947 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
949 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
951 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
952 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
953 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
955 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
957 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
958 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
960 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
962 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
963 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
964 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
965 to move some of them to the common keymap.
967 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
969 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
970 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
971 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
972 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
974 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
976 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
977 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
978 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
980 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
982 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
983 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
984 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
986 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
988 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
989 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
990 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
991 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
992 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
994 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
996 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
997 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
998 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
999 the body part of the message.
1004 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1005 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1006 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1008 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1009 =========================
1011 Command-Line Interface
1012 ----------------------
1014 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1016 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1017 folder and notmuch index.
1019 `notmuch count --batch` option
1021 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1022 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1024 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1026 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1027 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1028 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1031 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1033 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1034 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1035 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1036 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1037 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1040 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1042 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1043 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1045 Top level option to specify configuration file
1047 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1048 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1050 Bash command-line completion
1052 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1053 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1054 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1055 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1056 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1057 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1058 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1059 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1060 bash-completion package.
1062 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1067 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1069 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1070 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1071 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1072 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1073 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1074 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1075 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1076 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1078 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1080 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1081 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1082 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1084 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1086 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1087 previous thread in the search results.
1089 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1091 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1092 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1094 Faster search and show
1096 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1097 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1098 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1099 threads should show faster.
1103 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1104 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1105 in question was now removed from this release.
1110 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1111 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1116 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1118 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1119 ===========================
1124 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1126 Internal test framework changes
1127 -------------------------------
1129 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1130 being unimplemented.
1132 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1133 ===========================
1135 Internal test framework changes
1136 -------------------------------
1138 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1139 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1141 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1142 =========================
1147 Date range search support
1149 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1150 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1151 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1152 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1153 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1156 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1158 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1159 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1160 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1161 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1162 but may be removed in a future release.
1164 Command-Line Interface
1165 ----------------------
1167 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1169 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1170 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1172 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1174 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1175 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1176 officially deprecated.
1178 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1180 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1181 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1182 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1184 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1186 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1187 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1190 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1191 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1192 dump/restore format.
1194 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1196 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1197 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1198 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1200 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1202 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1203 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1204 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1206 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1208 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1209 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1210 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1211 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1216 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1218 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1219 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1220 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1221 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1223 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1225 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1226 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1227 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1228 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1229 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1230 the behavior of this, see
1231 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1232 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1234 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1235 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1236 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1238 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1240 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1241 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1244 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1246 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1247 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1248 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1249 simply displayed in place of the message.
1251 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1253 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1254 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1256 Improved text/calendar content handling
1258 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1259 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1260 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1261 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1263 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1265 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1266 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1267 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1268 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1270 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1272 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1273 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1274 for HTML email containing images.
1276 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1278 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1280 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1282 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1285 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1287 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1288 the point where it was.
1290 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1292 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1293 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1294 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1295 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1296 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1298 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1300 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1301 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1302 thread instead of the message id.
1304 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1305 -----------------------------
1307 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1308 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1309 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1310 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1311 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1312 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1313 further details and installation.
1318 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1320 Internal test framework changes
1321 -------------------------------
1323 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1325 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1326 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1327 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1328 can result in buggy behavior.
1330 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1331 =========================
1336 Maildir tag synchronization
1338 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1339 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1340 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1341 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1342 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1343 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1346 Command-Line Interface
1347 ----------------------
1349 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1350 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1351 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1352 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1353 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1359 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1361 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1363 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1364 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1365 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1367 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1369 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1370 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1371 span multiple lines.
1373 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1375 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1376 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1377 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1378 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1379 inside the result or message.
1381 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1383 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1384 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1386 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1387 user-specified formatting
1389 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1390 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1391 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1392 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1393 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1395 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1396 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1398 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1399 ===========================
1404 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1405 compilation error for this contrib package.
1407 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1408 ===========================
1413 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1415 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1416 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1417 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1418 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1420 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1421 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1424 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1425 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1426 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1427 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1430 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1432 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1435 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1436 =========================
1438 Command-Line Interface
1439 ----------------------
1443 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1444 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1445 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1446 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1448 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1449 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1450 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1451 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1455 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1456 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1458 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1459 tag in your query, for example:
1461 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1463 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1464 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1466 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1467 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1469 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1471 Raw show format changes
1473 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1474 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1475 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1476 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1477 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1478 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1479 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1480 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1482 Listing configuration items
1484 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1490 Changes to tagging interface
1492 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1493 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1494 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1495 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1496 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1497 for more information.
1499 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1500 may need to update in custom configurations.
1502 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1504 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1505 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1506 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1507 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1510 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1511 -----------------------------
1513 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1514 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1515 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1516 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1517 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1518 contrib/ from now on.
1523 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1524 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1526 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1527 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1529 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1530 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1531 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1533 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1534 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1536 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1537 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1538 returning the new database object or directory object.
1545 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1546 compatible with go 1.
1548 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1549 =========================
1551 Command-Line Interface
1552 ----------------------
1556 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1557 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1558 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1559 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1561 Mail store folder/file ignore
1563 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1564 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1565 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1567 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1568 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1570 Unified help and manual pages
1572 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1573 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1576 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1578 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1579 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1587 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1588 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1589 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1590 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1592 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1594 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1595 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1597 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1600 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1601 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1602 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1604 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1606 should be changed to:
1608 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1610 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1612 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1613 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1615 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1617 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1618 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1619 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1620 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1621 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1622 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1626 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1627 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1628 of Mailing List Archives.
1630 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1632 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1633 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1636 Show view archiving key binding changes
1638 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1639 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1640 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1641 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1642 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1645 Support text/calendar MIME type
1647 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1650 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1652 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1653 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1654 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1655 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1657 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1659 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1660 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1661 messages blue by default in the search view.
1665 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1666 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1673 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1676 Python bindings changes
1677 -----------------------
1679 Python 3.2 compatibility
1681 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1683 Added missing unicode conversions
1685 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1686 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1687 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1692 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1694 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1695 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1696 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1697 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1698 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1700 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1701 ===========================
1706 Fix error handling in python bindings
1708 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1709 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1710 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1711 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1713 Quote MML tags in replies
1715 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1716 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1717 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1718 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1719 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1720 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1721 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1722 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1724 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1725 =========================
1727 Command-Line Interface
1728 ----------------------
1732 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1733 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1734 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1735 importing new messages into the database.
1737 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1739 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1740 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1741 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1746 Automatic tag query optimization
1748 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1749 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1750 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1752 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1754 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1755 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1756 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1761 Reduction of memory leaks
1763 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1764 and fixed in this release.
1771 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1772 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1773 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1776 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1778 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1779 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1780 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1783 Improvements in saved search management
1785 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1786 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1787 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1789 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1791 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1792 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1793 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1795 New face for crypto parts headers
1797 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1798 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1799 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1802 Use space as default thousands separator
1804 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1805 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1806 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1808 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1809 buttonized id: links
1811 New function notmuch-show-advance
1813 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1814 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1815 be bound to SPC with:
1817 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1819 Various performance improvements
1824 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1825 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1828 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1829 ===========================
1834 Fix crash in python bindings
1836 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1837 for some, but not all users.
1839 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1840 ===========================
1845 Fix `--help` argument
1847 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1848 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1849 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1851 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1852 =========================
1854 New build and testing features
1855 ------------------------------
1857 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1858 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1859 prerequisites is improved.
1861 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1863 New command-line features
1864 -------------------------
1866 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1868 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1869 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1872 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1874 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1875 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1876 favour of using stdout.
1878 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1880 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1881 limit the number of results shown.
1883 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1885 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1886 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1889 New emacs UI features
1890 ---------------------
1892 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1894 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1895 starting with "tag:".
1897 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1899 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1900 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1902 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1904 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1906 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1908 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1909 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1914 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1916 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1918 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1919 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1920 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1921 requires a database rebuild:
1923 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1924 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1926 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1928 New collection of add-on tools
1929 ------------------------------
1931 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1932 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1933 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1936 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1938 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1939 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1940 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1942 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1943 ========================
1945 New, general features
1946 ---------------------
1948 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1950 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1951 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1952 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1953 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1954 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1961 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1962 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1964 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1968 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1969 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1970 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1973 Python bindings changes
1974 -----------------------
1976 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1978 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1979 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1980 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1981 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1982 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1983 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1985 Ruby bindings changes
1986 ---------------------
1988 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1989 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1990 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1991 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1996 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1998 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1999 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2001 Reply formatting cleanup
2002 ------------------------
2004 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2005 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2007 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2008 ========================
2010 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2012 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2013 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2014 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2015 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2018 Improved Build system portability
2020 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2021 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2022 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2024 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2026 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2028 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2030 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2031 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2032 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2034 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2035 ========================
2037 Vim interface improvements
2038 --------------------------
2040 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2042 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2043 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2044 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2045 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2046 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2048 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2050 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2051 * fix compose temp file name
2053 Python Bindings changes
2054 -----------------------
2056 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2058 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2059 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2061 Build-System improvements
2062 -------------------------
2064 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2066 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2069 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2070 ==========================
2075 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2077 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2078 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2080 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2081 =======================
2083 New, general features
2084 ---------------------
2086 Folder-based searching
2088 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2089 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2090 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2094 For example, one might use things such as:
2100 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2101 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2103 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2104 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2105 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2106 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2108 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2109 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2110 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2113 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2114 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2116 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2118 Support for PGP/MIME
2120 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2121 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2122 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2124 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2126 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2127 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2129 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2130 notmuch will receive these tags.
2132 New command-line features
2133 -------------------------
2135 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2137 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2138 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2140 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2142 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2143 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2144 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2146 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2148 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2149 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2150 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2151 which parts a signature part applies).
2153 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2155 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2156 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2157 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2158 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2159 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2162 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2164 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2165 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2166 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2167 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2168 by translating it internally to the new call.
2170 Performance improvements
2171 ------------------------
2173 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2175 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2176 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2177 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2179 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2180 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2182 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2184 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2185 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2186 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2188 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2189 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2190 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2191 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2193 Faster initial indexing
2195 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2196 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2197 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2199 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2201 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2202 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2203 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2204 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2206 New emacs-interface features
2207 ----------------------------
2209 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2211 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2212 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2213 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2214 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2215 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2216 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2218 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2220 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2221 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2222 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2223 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2225 User-selectable From address
2227 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2228 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2229 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2230 will prompt for the from address to use.
2232 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2233 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2234 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2236 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2237 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2238 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2241 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2243 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2244 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2246 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2248 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2250 ----- Original Message -----
2252 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2253 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2254 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2255 citations work much like conventional citations.
2257 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2259 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2260 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2261 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2262 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2263 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2265 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2266 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2268 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2270 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2271 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2272 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2274 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2276 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2277 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2278 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2279 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2280 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2282 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2284 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2287 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2289 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2291 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2293 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2296 Vim interface improvements
2297 --------------------------
2299 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2301 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2302 * Implementing archive in show view
2303 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2304 * Add delete commands
2307 Bindings improvements
2308 ---------------------
2310 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2312 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2313 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2315 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2317 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2321 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2322 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2323 `list(Messages)` works now
2324 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2326 These allow, for example:
2328 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2330 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2332 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2338 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2340 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2343 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2345 New build-system features
2346 -------------------------
2348 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2350 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2351 the configure script from some other directory:
2358 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2360 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2361 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2362 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2363 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2364 manual invocation of configure.
2366 New test-suite feature
2367 ----------------------
2369 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2371 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2372 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2373 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2374 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2375 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2378 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2380 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2381 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2382 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2383 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2384 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2385 are updated to take advantage of this.
2387 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2389 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2390 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2391 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2392 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2398 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2400 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2401 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2402 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2404 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2406 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2408 to:user@elsewhere.com
2410 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2412 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2414 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2416 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2417 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2418 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2421 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2422 from the Received headers in some cases
2424 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2425 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2427 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2429 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2431 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2433 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2434 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2435 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2437 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2438 -------------------------
2440 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2442 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2443 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2444 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2446 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2448 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2449 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2450 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2453 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2455 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2456 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2457 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2458 fixed to avoid this bug.
2460 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2462 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2463 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2465 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2466 ========================
2468 New, general features
2469 ---------------------
2471 Maildir-flag synchronization
2473 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2474 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2483 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2485 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2486 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2487 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2488 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2490 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2491 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2492 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2493 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2496 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2498 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2499 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2500 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2502 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2503 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2505 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2506 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2508 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2509 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2510 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2512 New library features
2513 --------------------
2515 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2517 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2518 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2519 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2520 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2522 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2523 message with the new function:
2525 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2527 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2528 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2529 over all available filenames for a given message.
2531 New command-line features
2532 -------------------------
2534 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2536 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2537 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2538 access to the mail store itself.
2540 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2541 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2542 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2543 name of a script containing:
2545 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2547 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2548 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2554 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2556 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2558 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2560 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2561 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2562 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2563 now produces nothing).
2565 Emacs interface improvements
2566 ----------------------------
2568 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2570 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2572 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2574 Display current thread subject in a header line
2576 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2578 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2580 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2581 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2582 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2583 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2584 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2585 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2586 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2588 Vim interface improvements
2589 --------------------------
2591 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2593 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2594 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2600 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2602 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2603 ========================
2605 New command-line features
2606 -------------------------
2608 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2610 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2611 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2612 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2614 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2615 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2616 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2617 scripts. For example:
2619 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2620 <operations-on> "$file"
2623 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2625 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2626 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2627 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2628 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2629 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2630 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2632 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2634 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2635 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2636 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2637 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2639 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2641 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2642 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2643 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2644 default rather than Bcc.
2646 New library features
2647 --------------------
2649 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2651 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2652 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2657 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2659 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2660 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2661 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2662 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2663 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2664 notmuch customize interface.
2666 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2668 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2669 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2670 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2671 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2673 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2675 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2676 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2677 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2678 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2680 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2682 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2683 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2684 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2685 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2686 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2687 notmuch customize interface.
2689 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2691 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2692 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2693 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2694 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2695 notmuch customize interface.
2697 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2699 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2700 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2701 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2702 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2705 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2707 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2708 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2709 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2712 New build-system features
2713 -------------------------
2715 Various portability fixes have been applied
2717 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2718 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2719 more portable than ever before.
2721 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2723 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2724 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2725 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2727 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2728 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2729 automatically run ldconfig.
2731 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2732 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2733 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2735 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2736 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2737 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2738 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2740 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2742 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2743 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2744 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2745 used in the resulting Makefile.
2747 New test-suite features
2748 -----------------------
2750 New modularization of test suite
2752 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2753 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2754 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2755 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2756 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2757 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2758 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2759 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2761 New testing of emacs interface
2763 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2764 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2765 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2766 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2767 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2768 database via the FCC setting.
2773 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2775 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2776 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2777 persistent error of the form:
2779 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2781 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2782 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2784 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2786 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2787 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2788 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2790 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2792 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2793 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2794 parsing the notmuch results).
2796 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2798 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2801 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2802 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2803 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2808 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2810 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2811 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2812 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2813 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2814 the emacs interface.
2816 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2818 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2819 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2820 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2822 Python-binding fixes
2823 --------------------
2825 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2827 Debian-specific fixes
2828 ---------------------
2830 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2832 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2833 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2834 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2837 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2838 ==========================
2843 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2845 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2846 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2847 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2848 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2850 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2852 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2853 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2854 want notmuch to crash.
2859 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2861 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2862 directory does not exist
2867 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2869 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2870 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2872 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2873 ========================
2875 New command-line features
2876 -------------------------
2878 User-configurable tags for new messages
2880 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2881 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2882 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2883 to specify this value.
2885 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2887 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2888 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2889 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2891 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2893 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2894 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2896 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2898 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2899 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2900 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2901 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2902 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2905 Indication of author names that match a search
2907 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2908 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2909 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2910 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2911 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2912 messages in the thread are listed first.
2914 New: Python bindings
2915 --------------------
2917 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2918 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2919 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2920 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2922 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2923 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2924 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2927 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2928 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2929 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2931 Emacs interface improvements
2932 ----------------------------
2934 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2936 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2937 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2938 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2939 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2940 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2941 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2942 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2943 but without any of the disadvantages).
2945 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2946 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2947 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2950 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2951 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2952 instead running something like:
2954 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2956 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2957 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2958 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2961 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2963 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2964 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2965 tweaked by the user.
2967 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2968 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2969 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2972 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2973 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2974 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2977 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2979 This support currently relies on an external program,
2980 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2981 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2982 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2983 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2984 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2987 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2988 notmuch) is available via:
2990 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2992 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2993 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2994 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2996 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2998 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2999 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3000 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3001 making this automatic in a future release.
3003 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3005 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3006 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3007 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3008 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3009 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3010 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3013 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3015 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3016 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3017 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3019 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3021 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3022 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3023 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3025 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3026 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3027 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3028 other representation.
3030 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3031 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3034 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3036 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3037 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3038 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3040 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3041 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3042 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3044 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3046 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3047 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3048 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3049 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3050 to display the search result.
3052 More flexible handling of header visibility
3054 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3055 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3056 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3057 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3058 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3059 with the 'h' keybinding.
3061 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3062 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3063 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3065 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3067 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3069 Customizable formatting of search results
3071 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3072 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3073 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3075 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3077 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3079 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3084 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3086 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3087 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3088 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3089 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3095 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3097 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3098 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3100 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3102 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3103 accept are now all accepted.
3108 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3110 Better display of output from failed tests
3112 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3113 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3115 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3116 ========================
3118 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3119 detailed release notes this time!
3121 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3122 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3124 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3125 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3126 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3127 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3134 Better guessing of From: header
3136 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3137 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3138 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3139 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3140 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3143 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3145 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3146 guaranteed to match all messages.
3148 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3150 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3151 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3152 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3153 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3154 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3157 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3160 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3161 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3162 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3163 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3168 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3170 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3171 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3172 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3173 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3175 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3177 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3179 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3180 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3181 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3183 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3185 Previously, the user might see:
3187 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3191 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3193 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3194 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3195 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3196 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3198 Emacs client features
3199 ---------------------
3201 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3203 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3204 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3205 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3206 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3207 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3209 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3212 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3213 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3214 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3215 search with the '*' binding.
3217 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3219 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3220 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3223 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3225 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3226 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3227 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3229 Build-system features
3230 ---------------------
3232 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3234 Add support to configure for many standard options
3236 We include actual support for:
3238 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3240 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3242 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3243 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3245 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3246 separate "make install-emacs"
3248 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3250 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3251 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3252 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3254 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3257 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3258 ========================
3260 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3262 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3263 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3265 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3266 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3267 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3268 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3269 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3270 tags from messages in a thread.
3277 indent-tabs-mode: nil