1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `nmbug-status` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
8 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
10 `nmbug-status` now supports `meta.message-url` to override the Gmane
11 template. For example, you can use:
15 "message-url": "https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!search/messageid$3A%22{message-id}%22"
21 To link to messages in the [opencontainers.org Google
22 Groups](https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!overview).
27 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
29 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
30 parts are now included in replies.
32 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
33 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
34 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
35 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
37 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
39 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
41 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
42 =========================
47 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
50 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
52 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
53 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
54 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
56 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
59 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
60 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
61 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
63 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
65 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
66 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
67 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
68 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
69 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
70 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
75 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
76 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
79 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
82 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
84 Command Line Interface
85 ----------------------
87 Database revision tracking
89 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
90 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
91 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
92 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
94 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
96 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
97 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
98 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
99 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
100 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
101 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
102 manual page for further information.
107 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
109 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
110 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
112 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
114 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
115 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
116 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
118 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
120 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
122 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
123 customization as well.
125 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
127 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
129 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
131 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
133 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
134 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
135 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
136 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
138 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
140 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
141 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
142 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
143 this variable to 10000.
148 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
149 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
151 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
153 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
154 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
155 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
156 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
157 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
158 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
159 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
160 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
161 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
164 Database revision tracking
166 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
167 query parser and the new function
168 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
170 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
174 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
175 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
176 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
177 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
182 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
184 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
185 ===========================
190 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
192 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
193 ===========================
198 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
200 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
201 =========================
203 Command-Line Interface
204 ----------------------
206 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
208 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
209 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
210 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
212 Path to gpg is now configurable
214 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
215 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
220 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
222 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
227 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
232 Support messages without Message-IDs.
237 Undeprecate single message mboxes
239 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
240 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
242 New error logging facility
244 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
245 output formerly printed to stderr.
247 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
249 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
251 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
253 Fix for rounding of seconds
258 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
260 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
261 docmumentation has been removed.
263 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
265 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
266 some material from the relicensed wiki.
271 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
272 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
273 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
278 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
279 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
280 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
281 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
282 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
283 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
286 git checkout config origin/config
288 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
290 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
291 =========================
296 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
297 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
298 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
299 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
300 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
301 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
302 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
304 Command-Line Interface
305 ----------------------
307 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
309 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
310 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
311 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
312 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
313 script callers should still check the return value.
315 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
317 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
318 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
319 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
320 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
321 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
322 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
323 and returning success even if indexing fails).
325 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
327 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
328 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
329 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
331 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
333 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
334 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
335 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
336 currently unmaintained.
338 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
340 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
341 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
342 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
343 have at least `N` files associated with them.
345 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
347 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
348 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
349 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
350 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
351 count of duplicate addresses.
356 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
358 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
359 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
360 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
363 Improved handling of the unread tag
365 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
366 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
367 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
368 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
369 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
370 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
371 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
373 Expanded default saved search settings
375 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
376 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
378 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
380 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
381 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
382 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
384 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
386 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
387 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
388 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
389 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
390 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
391 the variable for details.
396 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
398 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
399 Representing these independently of the database version number will
400 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
401 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
403 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
405 Previously, library users were required to call
406 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
407 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
408 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
409 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
410 too out of date for that API.
412 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
414 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
415 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
416 atomic section will be aborted.
418 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
419 `notmuch_database_destroy`
421 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
423 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
424 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
425 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
426 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
427 messages into the same thread.
432 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
433 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
434 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
435 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
436 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
437 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
442 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
443 from the config file. Use something like:
447 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
448 "footer": "</body></html>",
457 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
462 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
463 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
464 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
466 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
467 ===========================
472 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
474 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
476 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
478 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
479 structure for signatures changed slightly.
481 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
483 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
486 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
487 ===========================
489 This is a bug fix and portability release.
494 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
496 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
498 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
500 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
502 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
508 Use --quick when starting emacs
510 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
512 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
514 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
516 Command-Line Interface
517 ----------------------
519 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
520 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
525 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
527 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
528 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
530 Fix for phrase indexing
532 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
533 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
534 will affect only newly indexed messages.
539 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
541 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
542 unintentionally removed.
544 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
545 =========================
550 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
551 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
552 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
553 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
554 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
555 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
556 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
557 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
558 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
564 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
566 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
567 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
568 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
569 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
570 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
571 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
572 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
573 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
575 There is a new `path:` search prefix
577 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
578 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
579 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
580 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
583 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
585 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
586 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
587 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
588 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
589 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
590 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
591 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
596 Notmuch database upgrade
598 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
599 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
600 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
601 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
602 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
603 released version of Notmuch before now.
605 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
607 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
608 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
609 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
610 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
612 Message header parsing changes
614 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
615 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
616 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
617 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
618 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
619 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
621 Command-Line Interface
622 ----------------------
624 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
626 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
628 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
630 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
632 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
634 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
635 user does not want it.
637 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
639 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
640 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
641 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
642 support formatted output.
644 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
646 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
647 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
648 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
656 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
657 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
658 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
659 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
660 `~/.emacs` with these.
662 Changed format for saved searches
664 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
665 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
666 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
667 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
670 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
671 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
672 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
673 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
675 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
676 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
677 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
679 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
680 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
681 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
682 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
683 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
685 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
687 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
688 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
689 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
691 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
693 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
694 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
695 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
696 message had been unread).
698 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
699 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
700 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
701 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
703 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
704 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
705 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
707 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
708 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
709 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
710 to tags already present.
714 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
715 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
716 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
717 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
718 these differ from each other.
719 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
721 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
723 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
724 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
725 for these Emacs versions.
727 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
729 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
730 newlines before calling notmuch count.
732 Bug fixes for sender identities
734 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
735 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
736 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
738 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
740 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
741 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
742 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
743 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
745 Reply pushes mark before signature
747 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
748 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
749 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
751 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
753 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
754 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
760 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
761 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
763 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
764 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
765 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
766 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
768 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
769 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
770 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
771 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
772 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
774 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
776 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
777 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
779 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
780 =========================
782 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
783 ---------------------------------------
785 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
786 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
787 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
788 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
789 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
790 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
791 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
795 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
796 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
798 Command-Line Interface
799 ----------------------
801 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
803 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
804 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
805 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
806 print for each message.
808 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
809 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
810 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
811 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
813 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
815 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
816 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
817 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
819 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
821 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
822 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
823 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
824 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
826 `notmuch compact` command
828 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
829 functionality through a more convenient interface than
830 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
831 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
832 move the compacted database into place.
837 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
839 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
840 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
841 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
842 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
843 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
844 and multiple threads.
848 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
850 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
851 search, show and tree mode itself)
853 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
856 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
857 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
859 Customising `notmuch-tree`
861 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
862 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
863 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
864 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
865 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
866 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
867 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
869 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
871 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
872 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
873 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
874 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
875 thread when the search was performed.
877 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
879 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
880 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
881 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
883 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
885 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
886 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
889 Built-in help improvements
891 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
892 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
893 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
895 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
897 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
898 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
899 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
901 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
903 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
904 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
906 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
908 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
909 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
910 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
911 to move some of them to the common keymap.
913 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
915 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
916 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
917 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
918 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
920 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
922 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
923 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
924 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
926 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
928 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
929 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
930 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
932 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
934 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
935 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
936 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
937 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
938 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
940 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
942 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
943 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
944 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
945 the body part of the message.
950 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
951 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
952 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
954 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
955 =========================
957 Command-Line Interface
958 ----------------------
960 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
962 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
963 folder and notmuch index.
965 `notmuch count --batch` option
967 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
968 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
970 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
972 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
973 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
974 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
977 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
979 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
980 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
981 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
982 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
983 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
986 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
988 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
989 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
991 Top level option to specify configuration file
993 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
994 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
996 Bash command-line completion
998 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
999 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1000 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1001 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1002 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1003 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1004 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1005 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1006 bash-completion package.
1008 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1013 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1015 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1016 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1017 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1018 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1019 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1020 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1021 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1022 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1024 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1026 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1027 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1028 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1030 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1032 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1033 previous thread in the search results.
1035 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1037 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1038 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1040 Faster search and show
1042 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1043 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1044 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1045 threads should show faster.
1049 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1050 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1051 in question was now removed from this release.
1056 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1057 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1062 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1064 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1065 ===========================
1070 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1072 Internal test framework changes
1073 -------------------------------
1075 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1076 being unimplemented.
1078 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1079 ===========================
1081 Internal test framework changes
1082 -------------------------------
1084 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1085 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1087 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1088 =========================
1093 Date range search support
1095 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1096 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1097 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1098 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1099 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1102 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1104 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1105 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1106 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1107 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1108 but may be removed in a future release.
1110 Command-Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1113 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1115 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1116 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1118 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1120 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1121 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1122 officially deprecated.
1124 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1126 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1127 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1128 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1130 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1132 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1133 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1136 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1137 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1138 dump/restore format.
1140 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1142 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1143 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1144 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1146 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1148 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1149 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1150 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1152 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1154 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1155 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1156 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1157 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1162 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1164 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1165 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1166 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1167 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1169 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1171 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1172 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1173 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1174 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1175 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1176 the behavior of this, see
1177 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1178 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1180 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1181 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1182 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1184 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1186 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1187 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1190 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1192 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1193 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1194 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1195 simply displayed in place of the message.
1197 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1199 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1200 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1202 Improved text/calendar content handling
1204 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1205 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1206 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1207 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1209 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1211 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1212 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1213 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1214 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1216 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1218 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1219 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1220 for HTML email containing images.
1222 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1224 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1226 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1228 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1231 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1233 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1234 the point where it was.
1236 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1238 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1239 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1240 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1241 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1242 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1244 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1246 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1247 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1248 thread instead of the message id.
1250 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1251 -----------------------------
1253 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1254 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1255 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1256 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1257 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1258 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1259 further details and installation.
1264 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1266 Internal test framework changes
1267 -------------------------------
1269 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1271 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1272 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1273 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1274 can result in buggy behavior.
1276 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1277 =========================
1282 Maildir tag synchronization
1284 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1285 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1286 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1287 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1288 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1289 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1292 Command-Line Interface
1293 ----------------------
1295 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1296 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1297 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1298 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1299 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1305 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1307 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1309 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1310 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1311 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1313 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1315 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1316 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1317 span multiple lines.
1319 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1321 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1322 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1323 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1324 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1325 inside the result or message.
1327 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1329 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1330 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1332 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1333 user-specified formatting
1335 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1336 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1337 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1338 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1339 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1341 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1342 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1344 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1345 ===========================
1350 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1351 compilation error for this contrib package.
1353 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1354 ===========================
1359 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1361 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1362 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1363 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1364 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1366 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1367 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1370 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1371 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1372 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1373 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1376 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1378 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1381 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1382 =========================
1384 Command-Line Interface
1385 ----------------------
1389 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1390 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1391 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1392 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1394 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1395 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1396 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1397 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1401 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1402 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1404 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1405 tag in your query, for example:
1407 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1409 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1410 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1412 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1413 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1415 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1417 Raw show format changes
1419 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1420 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1421 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1422 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1423 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1424 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1425 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1426 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1428 Listing configuration items
1430 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1436 Changes to tagging interface
1438 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1439 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1440 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1441 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1442 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1443 for more information.
1445 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1446 may need to update in custom configurations.
1448 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1450 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1451 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1452 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1453 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1456 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1457 -----------------------------
1459 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1460 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1461 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1462 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1463 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1464 contrib/ from now on.
1469 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1470 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1472 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1473 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1475 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1476 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1477 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1479 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1480 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1482 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1483 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1484 returning the new database object or directory object.
1491 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1492 compatible with go 1.
1494 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1495 =========================
1497 Command-Line Interface
1498 ----------------------
1502 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1503 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1504 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1505 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1507 Mail store folder/file ignore
1509 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1510 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1511 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1513 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1514 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1516 Unified help and manual pages
1518 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1519 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1522 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1524 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1525 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1533 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1534 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1535 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1536 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1538 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1540 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1541 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1543 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1546 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1547 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1548 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1550 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1552 should be changed to:
1554 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1556 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1558 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1559 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1561 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1563 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1564 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1565 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1566 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1567 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1568 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1572 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1573 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1574 of Mailing List Archives.
1576 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1578 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1579 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1582 Show view archiving key binding changes
1584 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1585 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1586 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1587 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1588 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1591 Support text/calendar MIME type
1593 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1596 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1598 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1599 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1600 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1601 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1603 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1605 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1606 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1607 messages blue by default in the search view.
1611 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1612 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1619 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1622 Python bindings changes
1623 -----------------------
1625 Python 3.2 compatibility
1627 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1629 Added missing unicode conversions
1631 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1632 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1633 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1638 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1640 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1641 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1642 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1643 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1644 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1646 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1647 ===========================
1652 Fix error handling in python bindings
1654 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1655 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1656 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1657 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1659 Quote MML tags in replies
1661 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1662 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1663 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1664 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1665 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1666 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1667 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1668 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1670 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1671 =========================
1673 Command-Line Interface
1674 ----------------------
1678 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1679 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1680 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1681 importing new messages into the database.
1683 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1685 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1686 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1687 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1692 Automatic tag query optimization
1694 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1695 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1696 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1698 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1700 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1701 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1702 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1707 Reduction of memory leaks
1709 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1710 and fixed in this release.
1717 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1718 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1719 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1722 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1724 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1725 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1726 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1729 Improvements in saved search management
1731 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1732 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1733 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1735 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1737 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1738 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1739 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1741 New face for crypto parts headers
1743 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1744 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1745 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1748 Use space as default thousands separator
1750 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1751 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1752 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1754 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1755 buttonized id: links
1757 New function notmuch-show-advance
1759 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1760 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1761 be bound to SPC with:
1763 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1765 Various performance improvements
1770 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1771 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1774 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1775 ===========================
1780 Fix crash in python bindings
1782 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1783 for some, but not all users.
1785 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1786 ===========================
1791 Fix `--help` argument
1793 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1794 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1795 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1797 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1798 =========================
1800 New build and testing features
1801 ------------------------------
1803 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1804 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1805 prerequisites is improved.
1807 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1809 New command-line features
1810 -------------------------
1812 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1814 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1815 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1818 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1820 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1821 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1822 favour of using stdout.
1824 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1826 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1827 limit the number of results shown.
1829 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1831 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1832 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1835 New emacs UI features
1836 ---------------------
1838 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1840 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1841 starting with "tag:".
1843 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1845 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1846 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1848 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1850 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1852 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1854 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1855 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1860 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1862 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1864 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1865 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1866 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1867 requires a database rebuild:
1869 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1870 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1872 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1874 New collection of add-on tools
1875 ------------------------------
1877 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1878 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1879 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1882 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1884 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1885 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1886 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1888 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1889 ========================
1891 New, general features
1892 ---------------------
1894 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1896 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1897 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1898 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1899 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1900 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1907 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1908 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1910 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1914 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1915 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1916 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1919 Python bindings changes
1920 -----------------------
1922 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1924 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1925 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1926 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1927 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1928 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1929 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1931 Ruby bindings changes
1932 ---------------------
1934 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1935 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1936 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1937 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1942 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1944 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1945 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1947 Reply formatting cleanup
1948 ------------------------
1950 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1951 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1953 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1954 ========================
1956 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1958 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1959 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1960 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1961 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1964 Improved Build system portability
1966 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1967 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1968 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1970 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1972 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1974 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1976 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1977 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1978 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1980 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1981 ========================
1983 Vim interface improvements
1984 --------------------------
1986 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1988 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1989 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1990 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1991 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1992 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1994 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1996 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1997 * fix compose temp file name
1999 Python Bindings changes
2000 -----------------------
2002 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2004 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2005 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2007 Build-System improvements
2008 -------------------------
2010 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2012 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2015 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2016 ==========================
2021 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2023 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2024 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2026 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2027 =======================
2029 New, general features
2030 ---------------------
2032 Folder-based searching
2034 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2035 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2036 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2040 For example, one might use things such as:
2046 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2047 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2049 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2050 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2051 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2052 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2054 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2055 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2056 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2059 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2060 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2062 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2064 Support for PGP/MIME
2066 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2067 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2068 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2070 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2072 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2073 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2075 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2076 notmuch will receive these tags.
2078 New command-line features
2079 -------------------------
2081 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2083 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2084 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2086 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2088 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2089 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2090 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2092 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2094 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2095 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2096 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2097 which parts a signature part applies).
2099 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2101 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2102 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2103 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2104 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2105 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2108 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2110 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2111 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2112 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2113 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2114 by translating it internally to the new call.
2116 Performance improvements
2117 ------------------------
2119 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2121 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2122 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2123 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2125 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2126 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2128 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2130 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2131 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2132 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2134 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2135 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2136 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2137 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2139 Faster initial indexing
2141 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2142 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2143 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2145 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2147 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2148 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2149 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2150 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2152 New emacs-interface features
2153 ----------------------------
2155 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2157 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2158 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2159 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2160 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2161 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2162 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2164 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2166 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2167 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2168 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2169 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2171 User-selectable From address
2173 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2174 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2175 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2176 will prompt for the from address to use.
2178 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2179 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2180 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2182 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2183 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2184 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2187 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2189 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2190 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2192 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2194 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2196 ----- Original Message -----
2198 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2199 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2200 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2201 citations work much like conventional citations.
2203 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2205 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2206 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2207 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2208 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2209 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2211 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2212 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2214 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2216 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2217 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2218 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2220 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2222 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2223 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2224 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2225 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2226 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2228 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2230 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2233 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2235 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2237 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2239 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2242 Vim interface improvements
2243 --------------------------
2245 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2247 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2248 * Implementing archive in show view
2249 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2250 * Add delete commands
2253 Bindings improvements
2254 ---------------------
2256 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2258 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2259 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2261 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2263 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2267 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2268 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2269 `list(Messages)` works now
2270 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2272 These allow, for example:
2274 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2276 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2278 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2284 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2286 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2289 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2291 New build-system features
2292 -------------------------
2294 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2296 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2297 the configure script from some other directory:
2304 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2306 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2307 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2308 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2309 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2310 manual invocation of configure.
2312 New test-suite feature
2313 ----------------------
2315 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2317 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2318 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2319 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2320 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2321 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2324 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2326 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2327 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2328 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2329 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2330 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2331 are updated to take advantage of this.
2333 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2335 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2336 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2337 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2338 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2344 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2346 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2347 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2348 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2350 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2352 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2354 to:user@elsewhere.com
2356 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2358 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2360 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2362 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2363 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2364 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2367 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2368 from the Received headers in some cases
2370 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2371 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2373 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2375 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2377 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2379 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2380 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2381 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2383 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2384 -------------------------
2386 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2388 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2389 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2390 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2392 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2394 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2395 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2396 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2399 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2401 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2402 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2403 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2404 fixed to avoid this bug.
2406 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2408 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2409 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2411 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2412 ========================
2414 New, general features
2415 ---------------------
2417 Maildir-flag synchronization
2419 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2420 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2429 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2431 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2432 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2433 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2434 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2436 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2437 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2438 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2439 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2442 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2444 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2445 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2446 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2448 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2449 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2451 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2452 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2454 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2455 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2456 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2458 New library features
2459 --------------------
2461 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2463 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2464 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2465 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2466 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2468 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2469 message with the new function:
2471 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2473 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2474 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2475 over all available filenames for a given message.
2477 New command-line features
2478 -------------------------
2480 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2482 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2483 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2484 access to the mail store itself.
2486 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2487 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2488 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2489 name of a script containing:
2491 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2493 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2494 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2500 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2502 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2504 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2506 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2507 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2508 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2509 now produces nothing).
2511 Emacs interface improvements
2512 ----------------------------
2514 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2516 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2518 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2520 Display current thread subject in a header line
2522 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2524 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2526 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2527 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2528 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2529 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2530 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2531 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2532 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2534 Vim interface improvements
2535 --------------------------
2537 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2539 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2540 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2546 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2548 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2549 ========================
2551 New command-line features
2552 -------------------------
2554 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2556 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2557 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2558 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2560 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2561 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2562 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2563 scripts. For example:
2565 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2566 <operations-on> "$file"
2569 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2571 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2572 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2573 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2574 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2575 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2576 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2578 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2580 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2581 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2582 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2583 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2585 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2587 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2588 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2589 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2590 default rather than Bcc.
2592 New library features
2593 --------------------
2595 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2597 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2598 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2603 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2605 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2606 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2607 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2608 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2609 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2610 notmuch customize interface.
2612 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2614 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2615 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2616 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2617 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2619 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2621 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2622 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2623 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2624 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2626 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2628 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2629 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2630 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2631 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2632 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2633 notmuch customize interface.
2635 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2637 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2638 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2639 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2640 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2641 notmuch customize interface.
2643 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2645 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2646 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2647 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2648 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2651 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2653 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2654 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2655 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2658 New build-system features
2659 -------------------------
2661 Various portability fixes have been applied
2663 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2664 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2665 more portable than ever before.
2667 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2669 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2670 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2671 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2673 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2674 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2675 automatically run ldconfig.
2677 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2678 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2679 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2681 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2682 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2683 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2684 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2686 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2688 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2689 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2690 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2691 used in the resulting Makefile.
2693 New test-suite features
2694 -----------------------
2696 New modularization of test suite
2698 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2699 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2700 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2701 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2702 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2703 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2704 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2705 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2707 New testing of emacs interface
2709 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2710 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2711 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2712 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2713 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2714 database via the FCC setting.
2719 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2721 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2722 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2723 persistent error of the form:
2725 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2727 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2728 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2730 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2732 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2733 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2734 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2736 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2738 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2739 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2740 parsing the notmuch results).
2742 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2744 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2747 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2748 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2749 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2754 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2756 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2757 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2758 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2759 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2760 the emacs interface.
2762 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2764 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2765 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2766 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2768 Python-binding fixes
2769 --------------------
2771 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2773 Debian-specific fixes
2774 ---------------------
2776 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2778 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2779 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2780 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2783 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2784 ==========================
2789 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2791 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2792 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2793 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2794 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2796 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2798 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2799 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2800 want notmuch to crash.
2805 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2807 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2808 directory does not exist
2813 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2815 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2816 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2818 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2819 ========================
2821 New command-line features
2822 -------------------------
2824 User-configurable tags for new messages
2826 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2827 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2828 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2829 to specify this value.
2831 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2833 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2834 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2835 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2837 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2839 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2840 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2842 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2844 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2845 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2846 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2847 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2848 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2851 Indication of author names that match a search
2853 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2854 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2855 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2856 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2857 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2858 messages in the thread are listed first.
2860 New: Python bindings
2861 --------------------
2863 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2864 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2865 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2866 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2868 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2869 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2870 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2873 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2874 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2875 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2877 Emacs interface improvements
2878 ----------------------------
2880 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2882 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2883 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2884 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2885 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2886 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2887 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2888 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2889 but without any of the disadvantages).
2891 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2892 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2893 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2896 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2897 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2898 instead running something like:
2900 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2902 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2903 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2904 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2907 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2909 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2910 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2911 tweaked by the user.
2913 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2914 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2915 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2918 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2919 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2920 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2923 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2925 This support currently relies on an external program,
2926 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2927 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2928 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2929 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2930 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2933 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2934 notmuch) is available via:
2936 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2938 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2939 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2940 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2942 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2944 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2945 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2946 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2947 making this automatic in a future release.
2949 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2951 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2952 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2953 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2954 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2955 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2956 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2959 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2961 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2962 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2963 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2965 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2967 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2968 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2969 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2971 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2972 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2973 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2974 other representation.
2976 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2977 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2980 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2982 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2983 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2984 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2986 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2987 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2988 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2990 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2992 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2993 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2994 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2995 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2996 to display the search result.
2998 More flexible handling of header visibility
3000 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3001 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3002 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3003 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3004 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3005 with the 'h' keybinding.
3007 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3008 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3009 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3011 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3013 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3015 Customizable formatting of search results
3017 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3018 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3019 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3021 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3023 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3025 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3030 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3032 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3033 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3034 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3035 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3041 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3043 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3044 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3046 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3048 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3049 accept are now all accepted.
3054 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3056 Better display of output from failed tests
3058 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3059 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3061 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3062 ========================
3064 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3065 detailed release notes this time!
3067 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3068 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3070 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3071 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3072 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3073 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3080 Better guessing of From: header
3082 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3083 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3084 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3085 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3086 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3089 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3091 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3092 guaranteed to match all messages.
3094 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3096 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3097 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3098 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3099 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3100 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3103 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3106 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3107 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3108 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3109 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3114 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3116 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3117 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3118 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3119 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3121 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3123 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3125 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3126 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3127 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3129 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3131 Previously, the user might see:
3133 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3137 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3139 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3140 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3141 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3142 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3144 Emacs client features
3145 ---------------------
3147 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3149 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3150 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3151 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3152 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3153 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3155 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3158 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3159 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3160 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3161 search with the '*' binding.
3163 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3165 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3166 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3169 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3171 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3172 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3173 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3175 Build-system features
3176 ---------------------
3178 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3180 Add support to configure for many standard options
3182 We include actual support for:
3184 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3186 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3188 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3189 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3191 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3192 separate "make install-emacs"
3194 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3196 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3197 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3198 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3200 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3203 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3204 ========================
3206 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3208 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3209 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3211 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3212 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3213 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3214 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3215 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3216 tags from messages in a thread.
3223 indent-tabs-mode: nil