1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
23 Unified help and manual pages
25 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
26 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
29 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
31 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
32 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
40 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
41 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
42 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
43 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
45 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
47 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
48 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
50 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
53 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
54 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
55 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
57 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
61 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
63 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
65 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
66 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
68 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
70 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
71 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
72 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
73 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
74 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
75 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
79 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
80 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
81 of Mailing List Archives.
83 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
85 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
86 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
89 Show view archiving key binding changes
91 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
92 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
93 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
94 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
95 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
98 Support text/calendar MIME type
100 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
103 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
105 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
106 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
107 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
108 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
110 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
112 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
113 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
114 messages blue by default in the search view.
118 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
119 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
126 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
129 Python bindings changes
130 -----------------------
132 Python 3.2 compatibility
134 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
136 Added missing unicode conversions
138 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
139 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
140 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
145 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
147 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
148 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
149 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
150 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
151 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
153 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
154 ===========================
159 Fix error handling in python bindings.
161 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
162 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
163 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
164 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
166 Quote MML tags in replies
168 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
169 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
170 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
171 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
172 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
173 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
174 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
175 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
177 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
178 =========================
180 Command-Line Interface
181 ----------------------
185 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
186 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
187 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
188 importing new messages into the database.
190 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
192 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
193 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
194 sometimes. This is now fixed.
199 Automatic tag query optimization
201 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
202 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
203 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
205 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
207 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
208 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
209 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
214 Reduction of memory leaks
216 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
217 and fixed in this release.
224 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
225 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
226 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
229 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
231 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
232 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
233 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
236 Improvements in saved search management
238 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
239 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
240 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
242 Hooks for notmuch-hello
244 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
245 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
246 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
248 New face for crypto parts headers
250 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
251 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
252 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
255 Use space as default thousands separator
257 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
258 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
259 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
261 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
262 buttonized id: links.
264 New function notmuch-show-advance
266 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
267 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
268 be bound to SPC with:
270 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
272 Various performance improvements.
277 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
278 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
281 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
282 ===========================
287 Fix crash in python bindings.
289 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
290 for some, but not all users.
292 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
293 ===========================
300 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
301 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
304 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
305 =========================
307 New build and testing features
308 ------------------------------
310 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
311 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
312 prerequisites is improved.
314 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
316 New command-line features
317 -------------------------
319 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
321 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
322 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
325 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
327 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
328 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
329 favour of using stdout.
331 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
333 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
334 the number of results shown.
336 Add "notmuch count --output" option
338 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
339 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
341 New emacs UI features
342 ---------------------
344 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
346 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
347 starting with "tag:".
349 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
351 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
352 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
354 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
356 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
358 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
360 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
361 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
366 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
368 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
370 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
371 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
372 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
373 requires a database rebuild:
375 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
376 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
378 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
380 New collection of add-on tools
381 ------------------------------
383 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
384 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
385 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
388 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
390 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
391 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
392 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
394 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
395 ========================
397 New, general features
398 ---------------------
400 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
402 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
403 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
404 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
405 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
406 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
413 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
414 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
416 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
420 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
421 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
422 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
425 Python bindings changes
426 -----------------------
428 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
430 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
431 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
432 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
433 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
434 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
435 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
437 Ruby bindings changes
438 ---------------------
440 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
441 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
442 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
443 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
448 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
450 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
451 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
453 Reply formatting cleanup
454 ------------------------
456 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
457 MIME parts are being suppressed.
459 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
460 ========================
462 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
464 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
465 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
466 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
467 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
470 Improved Build system portability
472 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
473 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
474 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
476 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
478 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
480 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
482 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
483 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
484 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
486 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
487 ========================
489 Vim interface improvements
490 --------------------------
492 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
494 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
495 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
496 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
497 * fix from list reformatting in search view
498 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
500 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
502 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
503 * fix compose temp file name
505 Python Bindings changes
506 -----------------------
508 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
510 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
511 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
513 Build-System improvements
514 ------------------------
516 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
518 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
521 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
522 ==========================
527 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
529 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
530 people running gcc 4.4.5.
532 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
533 =======================
534 New, general features
535 ---------------------
536 Folder-based searching
538 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
539 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
540 storage). The syntax is as follows:
544 For example, one might use things such as:
550 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
551 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
553 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
554 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
555 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
556 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
558 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
559 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
560 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
563 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
564 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
566 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
570 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
571 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
572 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
574 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
576 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
577 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
579 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
580 notmuch will receive these tags.
582 New command-line features
583 -------------------------
584 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
586 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
587 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
589 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
591 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
592 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
593 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
595 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
597 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
598 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
599 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
600 which parts a signature part applies).
602 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
604 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
605 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
606 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
607 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
608 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
611 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
613 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
614 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
615 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
616 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
617 by translating it internally to the new call.
619 Performance improvements
620 ------------------------
621 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
623 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
624 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
625 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
627 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
628 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
630 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
632 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
633 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
634 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
636 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
637 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
638 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
639 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
641 Faster initial indexing
643 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
644 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
645 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
647 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
649 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
650 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
651 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
652 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
654 New emacs-interface features
655 ----------------------------
657 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
659 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
660 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
661 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
662 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
663 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
664 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
666 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
668 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
669 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
670 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
671 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
673 User-selectable From address
675 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
676 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
677 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
678 will prompt for the from address to use.
680 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
681 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
682 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
684 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
685 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
686 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
689 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
691 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
692 its parent, the subject is not shown.
694 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
696 When a message contains a line looking something like:
698 ----- Original Message -----
700 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
701 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
702 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
703 citations work much like conventional citations.
705 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
707 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
708 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
709 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
710 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
711 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
713 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
714 Notmuch After Tag Hook
716 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
718 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
719 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
720 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
722 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
724 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
725 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
726 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
727 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
728 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
730 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
732 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
735 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
737 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
739 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
740 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
742 Vim interface improvements
743 --------------------------
744 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
746 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
747 * Implementing archive in show view
748 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
749 * Add delete commands
752 Bindings improvements
753 ---------------------
754 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
756 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
757 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
759 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
760 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
763 - Message().get_filenames(),
764 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
765 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
767 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
768 These allow, for example:
771 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
773 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
778 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
779 Use len(list(Messages())) or
780 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
782 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
784 New build-system features
785 -------------------------
786 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
788 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
789 the configure script from some other directory:
796 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
798 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
799 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
800 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
801 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
802 manual invocation of configure.
804 New test-suite feature
805 ----------------------
806 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
808 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
809 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
810 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
811 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
812 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
815 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
817 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
818 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
819 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
820 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
821 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
822 are updated to take advantage of this.
824 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
826 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
827 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
828 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
829 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
834 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
836 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
837 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
838 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
840 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
842 This fixed a bug where a search for:
844 to:user@elsewhere.com
846 would incorrectly match a message sent:
848 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
850 Fix --output=json when search has no results
852 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
853 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
854 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
857 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
858 from the Received headers in some cases.
860 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
861 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
863 Cleaned up several memory leaks
865 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
867 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
869 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
870 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
871 interface and were never intended to be exported.
873 Emacs-interface bug fixes
874 -------------------------
875 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
877 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
878 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
879 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
881 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
883 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
884 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
885 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
888 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
890 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
891 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
892 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
893 fixed to avoid this bug.
895 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
897 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
898 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
900 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
901 ========================
902 New, general features
903 ---------------------
904 Maildir-flag synchronization
906 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
907 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
916 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
918 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
919 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
920 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
921 renamed with an 'R' flag).
923 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
924 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
925 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
926 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
929 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
931 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
932 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
933 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
935 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
936 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
938 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
939 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
941 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
942 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
943 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
947 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
949 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
950 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
951 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
952 notmuch_message_get_filename).
954 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
955 message with the new function:
957 notmuch_message_get_filenames
959 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
960 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
961 all available filenames for a given message.
963 New command-line features
964 -------------------------
965 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
967 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
968 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
969 access to the mail store itself.
971 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
972 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
973 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
974 name of a script containing:
976 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
978 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
979 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
984 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
986 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
988 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
990 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
991 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
992 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
993 now produces nothing).
995 Emacs interface improvements
996 ----------------------------
997 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
999 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1001 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1003 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1005 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1007 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1009 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1010 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1011 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1012 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1013 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1014 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1015 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1017 Vim interface improvements
1018 --------------------------
1019 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1021 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1022 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1027 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1029 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1030 ========================
1031 New command-line features
1032 -------------------------
1033 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1035 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1036 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1037 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1039 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1040 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1041 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1042 scripts. For example:
1044 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1045 <operations-on> "$file"
1048 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1050 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1051 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1052 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1053 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1054 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1055 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1057 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1059 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1060 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1061 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1062 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1064 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1066 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1067 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1068 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1069 default rather than Bcc.
1071 New library features
1072 --------------------
1073 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1075 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1076 notmuch_query_t object.
1080 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1082 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1083 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1084 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1085 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1086 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1087 notmuch customize interface.
1089 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1091 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1092 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1093 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1094 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1096 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1098 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1099 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1100 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1101 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1103 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1105 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1106 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1107 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1108 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1109 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1110 notmuch customize interface.
1112 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1114 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1115 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1116 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1117 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1118 notmuch customize interface.
1120 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1122 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1123 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1124 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1125 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1128 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1130 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1131 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1132 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1135 New build-system features
1136 -------------------------
1137 Various portability fixes have been applied
1139 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1140 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1141 more portable than ever before.
1143 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1145 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1146 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1147 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1149 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1150 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1151 automatically run ldconfig.
1153 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1154 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1155 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1157 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1158 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1159 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1160 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1162 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1164 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1165 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1166 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1167 used in the resulting Makefile.
1169 New test-suite features
1170 -----------------------
1171 New modularization of test suite.
1173 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1174 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1175 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1176 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1177 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1178 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1179 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1180 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1182 New testing of emacs interface.
1184 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1185 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1186 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1187 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1188 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1189 database via the FCC setting.
1193 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1195 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1196 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1197 persistent error of the form:
1199 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1201 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1202 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1204 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1206 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1207 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1208 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1210 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1212 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1213 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1214 parsing the notmuch results).
1216 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1218 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1220 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1221 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1222 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1226 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1228 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1229 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1230 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1231 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1232 the emacs interface.
1234 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1236 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1237 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1238 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1240 Python-binding fixes
1241 --------------------
1242 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1244 Debian-specific fixes
1245 ---------------------
1246 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1248 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1249 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1250 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1253 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1254 ==========================
1257 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1259 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1260 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1261 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1262 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1264 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1266 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1267 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1268 want notmuch to crash.
1272 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1274 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1275 directory does not exist.
1279 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1281 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1282 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1284 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1285 ========================
1286 New command-line features
1287 -------------------------
1288 User-configurable tags for new messages
1290 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1291 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1292 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1293 to specify this value.
1295 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1297 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1298 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1299 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1301 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1303 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1304 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1306 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1308 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1309 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1310 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1311 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1312 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1315 Indication of author names that match a search
1317 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1318 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1319 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1320 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1321 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1322 messages in the thread are listed first.
1324 New: Python bindings
1325 --------------------
1326 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1327 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1328 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1329 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1331 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1332 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1333 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1336 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1337 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1338 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1340 Emacs interface improvements
1341 ----------------------------
1342 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1344 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1345 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1346 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1347 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1348 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1349 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1350 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1351 but without any of the disadvantages).
1353 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1354 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1355 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1358 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1359 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1360 recommend instead running something like:
1362 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1364 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1365 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1366 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1369 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1371 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1372 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1373 tweaked by the user.
1375 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1376 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1377 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1380 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1381 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1382 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1385 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1387 This support currently relies on an external program,
1388 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1389 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1390 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1391 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1392 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1395 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1396 notmuch) is available via:
1398 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1400 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1401 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1402 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1404 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1406 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1407 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1408 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1409 making this automatic in a future release.
1411 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1413 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1414 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1415 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1416 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1417 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1418 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1421 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1423 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1424 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1425 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1427 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1429 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1430 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1431 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1433 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1434 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1435 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1436 other representation.
1438 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1439 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1442 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1444 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1445 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1446 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1448 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1449 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1450 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1452 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1454 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1455 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1456 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1457 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1458 to display the search result.
1460 More flexible handling of header visibility
1462 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1463 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1464 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1465 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1466 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1467 with the 'h' keybinding.
1469 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1470 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1471 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1473 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1475 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1477 Customizable formatting of search results
1479 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1480 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1481 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1483 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1485 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1487 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1491 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1493 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1494 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1495 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1496 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1501 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1503 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1504 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1506 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1508 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1509 accept are now all accepted.
1513 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1515 Better display of output from failed tests.
1517 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1518 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1520 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1521 ========================
1522 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1523 detailed release notes this time!
1525 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1526 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1528 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1529 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1530 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1531 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1537 Better guessing of From: header.
1539 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1540 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1541 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1542 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1543 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1546 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1548 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1549 guaranteed to match all messages.
1551 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1553 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1554 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1555 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1556 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1557 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1560 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1563 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1564 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1565 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1566 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1570 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1572 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1573 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1574 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1575 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1577 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1579 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1581 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1582 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1583 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1585 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1587 Previously, the user might see:
1589 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1593 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1595 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1596 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1597 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1598 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1600 Emacs client features
1601 ---------------------
1602 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1604 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1605 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1606 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1607 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1608 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1610 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1613 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1614 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1615 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1616 search with the '*' binding.
1618 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1620 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1621 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1624 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1626 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1627 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1628 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1630 Build-system features
1631 ---------------------
1632 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1634 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1636 We include actual support for:
1638 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1640 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1642 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1643 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1645 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1646 separate "make install-emacs".
1648 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1650 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1651 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1652 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1654 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1657 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1658 ========================
1659 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1661 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1662 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1664 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1665 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1666 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1667 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1668 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1669 tags from messages in a thread.