1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
44 Raw show format changes
46 The output of show --format=raw has changed for multipart and
47 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
48 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
49 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
50 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
51 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
52 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
53 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
55 Listing configuration items
57 The new "config list" command prints out all configuration items and
63 Reply improvement using the JSON format
65 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
66 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
67 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
68 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
71 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
72 -----------------------------
74 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
75 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
76 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
77 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
78 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
86 The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
87 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
89 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
90 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
91 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
93 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
94 =========================
96 Command-Line Interface
97 ----------------------
101 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
102 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
103 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
104 --reply-to=(all|sender).
106 Mail store folder/file ignore
108 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
109 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
110 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
112 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
113 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
115 Unified help and manual pages
117 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
118 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
121 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
123 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
124 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
132 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
133 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
134 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
135 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
137 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
139 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
140 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
142 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
145 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
146 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
147 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
149 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
151 should be changed to:
153 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
155 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
157 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
158 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
160 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
162 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
163 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
164 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
165 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
166 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
167 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
171 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
172 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
173 of Mailing List Archives.
175 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
177 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
178 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
181 Show view archiving key binding changes
183 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
184 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
185 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
186 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
187 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
190 Support text/calendar MIME type
192 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
195 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
197 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
198 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
199 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
200 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
202 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
204 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
205 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
206 messages blue by default in the search view.
210 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
211 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
218 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
221 Python bindings changes
222 -----------------------
224 Python 3.2 compatibility
226 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
228 Added missing unicode conversions
230 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
231 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
232 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
237 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
239 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
240 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
241 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
242 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
243 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
245 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
246 ===========================
251 Fix error handling in python bindings.
253 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
254 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
255 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
256 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
258 Quote MML tags in replies
260 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
261 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
262 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
263 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
264 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
265 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
266 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
267 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
269 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
270 =========================
272 Command-Line Interface
273 ----------------------
277 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
278 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
279 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
280 importing new messages into the database.
282 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
284 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
285 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
286 sometimes. This is now fixed.
291 Automatic tag query optimization
293 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
294 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
295 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
297 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
299 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
300 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
301 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
306 Reduction of memory leaks
308 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
309 and fixed in this release.
316 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
317 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
318 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
321 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
323 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
324 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
325 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
328 Improvements in saved search management
330 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
331 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
332 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
334 Hooks for notmuch-hello
336 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
337 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
338 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
340 New face for crypto parts headers
342 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
343 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
344 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
347 Use space as default thousands separator
349 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
350 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
351 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
353 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
354 buttonized id: links.
356 New function notmuch-show-advance
358 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
359 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
360 be bound to SPC with:
362 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
364 Various performance improvements.
369 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
370 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
373 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
374 ===========================
379 Fix crash in python bindings.
381 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
382 for some, but not all users.
384 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
385 ===========================
392 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
393 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
396 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
397 =========================
399 New build and testing features
400 ------------------------------
402 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
403 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
404 prerequisites is improved.
406 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
408 New command-line features
409 -------------------------
411 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
413 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
414 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
417 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
419 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
420 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
421 favour of using stdout.
423 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
425 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
426 the number of results shown.
428 Add "notmuch count --output" option
430 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
431 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
433 New emacs UI features
434 ---------------------
436 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
438 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
439 starting with "tag:".
441 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
443 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
444 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
446 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
448 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
450 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
452 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
453 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
458 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
460 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
462 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
463 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
464 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
465 requires a database rebuild:
467 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
468 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
470 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
472 New collection of add-on tools
473 ------------------------------
475 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
476 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
477 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
480 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
482 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
483 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
484 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
486 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
487 ========================
489 New, general features
490 ---------------------
492 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
494 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
495 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
496 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
497 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
498 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
505 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
506 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
508 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
512 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
513 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
514 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
517 Python bindings changes
518 -----------------------
520 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
522 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
523 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
524 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
525 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
526 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
527 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
529 Ruby bindings changes
530 ---------------------
532 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
533 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
534 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
535 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
540 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
542 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
543 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
545 Reply formatting cleanup
546 ------------------------
548 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
549 MIME parts are being suppressed.
551 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
552 ========================
554 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
556 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
557 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
558 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
559 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
562 Improved Build system portability
564 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
565 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
566 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
568 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
570 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
572 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
574 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
575 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
576 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
578 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
579 ========================
581 Vim interface improvements
582 --------------------------
584 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
586 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
587 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
588 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
589 * fix from list reformatting in search view
590 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
592 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
594 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
595 * fix compose temp file name
597 Python Bindings changes
598 -----------------------
600 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
602 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
603 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
605 Build-System improvements
606 ------------------------
608 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
610 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
613 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
614 ==========================
619 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
621 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
622 people running gcc 4.4.5.
624 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
625 =======================
627 New, general features
628 ---------------------
630 Folder-based searching
632 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
633 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
634 storage). The syntax is as follows:
638 For example, one might use things such as:
644 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
645 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
647 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
648 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
649 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
650 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
652 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
653 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
654 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
657 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
658 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
660 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
664 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
665 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
666 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
668 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
670 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
671 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
673 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
674 notmuch will receive these tags.
676 New command-line features
677 -------------------------
679 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
681 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
682 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
684 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
686 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
687 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
688 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
690 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
692 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
693 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
694 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
695 which parts a signature part applies).
697 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
699 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
700 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
701 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
702 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
703 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
706 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
708 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
709 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
710 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
711 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
712 by translating it internally to the new call.
714 Performance improvements
715 ------------------------
717 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
719 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
720 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
721 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
723 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
724 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
726 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
728 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
729 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
730 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
732 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
733 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
734 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
735 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
737 Faster initial indexing
739 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
740 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
741 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
743 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
745 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
746 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
747 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
748 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
750 New emacs-interface features
751 ----------------------------
753 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
755 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
756 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
757 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
758 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
759 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
760 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
762 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
764 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
765 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
766 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
767 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
769 User-selectable From address
771 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
772 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
773 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
774 will prompt for the from address to use.
776 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
777 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
778 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
780 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
781 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
782 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
785 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
787 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
788 its parent, the subject is not shown.
790 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
792 When a message contains a line looking something like:
794 ----- Original Message -----
796 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
797 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
798 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
799 citations work much like conventional citations.
801 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
803 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
804 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
805 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
806 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
807 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
809 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
810 Notmuch After Tag Hook
812 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
814 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
815 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
816 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
818 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
820 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
821 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
822 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
823 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
824 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
826 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
828 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
831 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
833 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
835 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
836 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
838 Vim interface improvements
839 --------------------------
841 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
843 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
844 * Implementing archive in show view
845 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
846 * Add delete commands
849 Bindings improvements
850 ---------------------
852 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
854 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
855 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
857 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
859 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
863 - Message().get_filenames(), Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),
864 Message().maildir_flags_to_tags(), list(Threads()) and
865 list(Messages) works now
866 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
868 These allow, for example:
872 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
874 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
880 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator
882 Use len(list(Messages())) or Query.count_messages()
885 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
887 New build-system features
888 -------------------------
890 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
892 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
893 the configure script from some other directory:
900 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
902 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
903 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
904 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
905 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
906 manual invocation of configure.
908 New test-suite feature
909 ----------------------
911 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
913 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
914 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
915 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
916 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
917 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
920 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
922 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
923 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
924 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
925 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
926 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
927 are updated to take advantage of this.
929 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
931 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
932 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
933 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
934 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
940 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
942 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
943 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
944 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
946 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
948 This fixed a bug where a search for:
950 to:user@elsewhere.com
952 would incorrectly match a message sent:
954 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
956 Fix --output=json when search has no results
958 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
959 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
960 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
963 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
964 from the Received headers in some cases.
966 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
967 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
969 Cleaned up several memory leaks
971 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
973 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
975 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
976 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
977 interface and were never intended to be exported.
979 Emacs-interface bug fixes
980 -------------------------
982 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
984 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
985 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
986 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
988 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
990 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
991 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
992 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
995 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
997 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
998 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
999 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1000 fixed to avoid this bug.
1002 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1004 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1005 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1007 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1008 ========================
1010 New, general features
1011 ---------------------
1013 Maildir-flag synchronization
1015 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1016 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1025 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1027 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1028 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1029 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1030 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1032 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1033 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1034 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1035 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
1038 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1040 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1041 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1042 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1044 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1045 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1047 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1048 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1050 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1051 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1052 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1054 New library features
1055 --------------------
1057 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1059 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1060 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1061 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1062 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1064 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1065 message with the new function:
1067 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1069 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1070 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1071 all available filenames for a given message.
1073 New command-line features
1074 -------------------------
1076 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1078 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1079 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1080 access to the mail store itself.
1082 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1083 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1084 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1085 name of a script containing:
1087 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1089 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1090 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1096 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1098 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1100 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1102 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1103 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1104 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1105 now produces nothing).
1107 Emacs interface improvements
1108 ----------------------------
1110 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1112 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1114 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1116 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1118 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1120 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1122 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1123 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1124 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1125 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1126 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1127 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1128 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1130 Vim interface improvements
1131 --------------------------
1133 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1135 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1136 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1142 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1144 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1145 ========================
1147 New command-line features
1148 -------------------------
1150 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1152 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1153 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1154 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1156 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1157 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1158 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1159 scripts. For example:
1161 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1162 <operations-on> "$file"
1165 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1167 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1168 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1169 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1170 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1171 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1172 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1174 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1176 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1177 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1178 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1179 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1181 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1183 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1184 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1185 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1186 default rather than Bcc.
1188 New library features
1189 --------------------
1191 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1193 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1194 notmuch_query_t object.
1199 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1201 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1202 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1203 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1204 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1205 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1206 notmuch customize interface.
1208 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1210 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1211 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1212 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1213 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1215 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1217 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1218 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1219 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1220 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1222 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1224 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1225 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1226 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1227 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1228 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1229 notmuch customize interface.
1231 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1233 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1234 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1235 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1236 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1237 notmuch customize interface.
1239 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1241 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1242 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1243 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1244 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1247 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1249 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1250 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1251 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1254 New build-system features
1255 -------------------------
1256 Various portability fixes have been applied
1258 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1259 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1260 more portable than ever before.
1262 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1264 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1265 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1266 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1268 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1269 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1270 automatically run ldconfig.
1272 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1273 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1274 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1276 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1277 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1278 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1279 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1281 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1283 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1284 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1285 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1286 used in the resulting Makefile.
1288 New test-suite features
1289 -----------------------
1291 New modularization of test suite
1293 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1294 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1295 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1296 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1297 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1298 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1299 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1300 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1302 New testing of emacs interface.
1304 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1305 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1306 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1307 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1308 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1309 database via the FCC setting.
1314 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1316 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1317 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1318 persistent error of the form:
1320 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1322 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1323 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1325 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1327 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1328 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1329 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1331 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1333 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1334 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1335 parsing the notmuch results).
1337 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1339 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1341 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1342 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1343 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1348 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1350 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1351 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1352 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1353 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1354 the emacs interface.
1356 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1358 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1359 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1360 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1362 Python-binding fixes
1363 --------------------
1365 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1367 Debian-specific fixes
1368 ---------------------
1370 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1372 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1373 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1374 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1377 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1378 ==========================
1383 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1385 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1386 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1387 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1388 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1390 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1392 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1393 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1394 want notmuch to crash.
1399 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1401 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1402 directory does not exist.
1407 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1409 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1410 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1412 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1413 ========================
1415 New command-line features
1416 -------------------------
1418 User-configurable tags for new messages
1420 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1421 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1422 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1423 to specify this value.
1425 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1427 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1428 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1429 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1431 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1433 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1434 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1436 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1438 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1439 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1440 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1441 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1442 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1445 Indication of author names that match a search
1447 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1448 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1449 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1450 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1451 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1452 messages in the thread are listed first.
1454 New: Python bindings
1455 --------------------
1457 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1458 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1459 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1460 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1462 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1463 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1464 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1467 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1468 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1469 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1471 Emacs interface improvements
1472 ----------------------------
1474 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1476 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1477 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1478 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1479 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1480 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1481 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1482 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1483 but without any of the disadvantages).
1485 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1486 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1487 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1490 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1491 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1492 instead running something like:
1494 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1496 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1497 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1498 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1501 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1503 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1504 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1505 tweaked by the user.
1507 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1508 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1509 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1512 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1513 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1514 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1517 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1519 This support currently relies on an external program,
1520 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1521 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1522 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1523 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1524 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1527 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1528 notmuch) is available via:
1530 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1532 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1533 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1534 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1536 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1538 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1539 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1540 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1541 making this automatic in a future release.
1543 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1545 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1546 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1547 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1548 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1549 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1550 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1553 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1555 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1556 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1557 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1559 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1561 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1562 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1563 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1565 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1566 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1567 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1568 other representation.
1570 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1571 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1574 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1576 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1577 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1578 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1580 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1581 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1582 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1584 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1586 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1587 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1588 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1589 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1590 to display the search result.
1592 More flexible handling of header visibility
1594 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1595 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1596 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1597 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1598 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1599 with the 'h' keybinding.
1601 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1602 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1603 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1605 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1607 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1609 Customizable formatting of search results
1611 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1612 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1613 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1615 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1617 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1619 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1624 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1626 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1627 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1628 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1629 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1635 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1637 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1638 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1640 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1642 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1643 accept are now all accepted.
1648 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1650 Better display of output from failed tests
1652 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1653 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1655 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1656 ========================
1658 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1659 detailed release notes this time!
1661 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1662 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1664 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1665 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1666 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1667 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1674 Better guessing of From: header
1676 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1677 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1678 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1679 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1680 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1683 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1685 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1686 guaranteed to match all messages.
1688 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1690 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1691 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1692 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1693 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1694 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1697 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1700 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1701 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1702 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1703 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1708 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1710 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1711 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1712 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1713 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1715 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1717 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1719 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1720 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1721 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1723 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1725 Previously, the user might see:
1727 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1731 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1733 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1734 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1735 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1736 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1738 Emacs client features
1739 ---------------------
1741 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1743 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1744 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1745 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1746 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1747 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1749 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1752 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1753 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1754 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1755 search with the '*' binding.
1757 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1759 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1760 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1763 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1765 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1766 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1767 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1769 Build-system features
1770 ---------------------
1772 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1774 Add support to configure for many standard options
1776 We include actual support for:
1778 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1780 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1782 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1783 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1785 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1786 separate "make install-emacs".
1788 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1790 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1791 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1792 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1794 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1797 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1798 ========================
1800 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1802 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1803 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1805 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1806 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1807 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1808 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1809 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1810 tags from messages in a thread.
1817 indent-tabs-mode: nil