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
47 Reply improvement using the JSON format
49 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
50 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
51 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
52 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
55 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
56 =========================
58 Command-Line Interface
59 ----------------------
63 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
64 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
65 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
66 --reply-to=(all|sender).
68 Mail store folder/file ignore
70 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
71 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
72 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
74 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
75 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
77 Unified help and manual pages
79 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
80 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
83 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
85 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
86 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
94 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
95 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
96 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
97 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
99 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
101 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
102 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
104 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
107 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
108 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
109 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
111 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
113 should be changed to:
115 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
117 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
119 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
120 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
122 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
124 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
125 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
126 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
127 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
128 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
129 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
133 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
134 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
135 of Mailing List Archives.
137 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
139 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
140 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
143 Show view archiving key binding changes
145 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
146 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
147 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
148 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
149 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
152 Support text/calendar MIME type
154 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
157 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
159 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
160 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
161 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
162 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
164 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
166 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
167 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
168 messages blue by default in the search view.
175 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
178 Python bindings changes
179 -----------------------
181 Python 3.2 compatibility
183 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
185 Added missing unicode conversions
187 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
188 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
189 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
194 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
196 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
197 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
198 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
199 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
200 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
202 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
203 ===========================
208 Fix error handling in python bindings.
210 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
211 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
212 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
213 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
215 Quote MML tags in replies
217 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
218 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
219 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
220 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
221 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
222 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
223 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
224 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
226 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
227 =========================
229 Command-Line Interface
230 ----------------------
234 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
235 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
236 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
237 importing new messages into the database.
239 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
241 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
242 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
243 sometimes. This is now fixed.
248 Automatic tag query optimization
250 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
251 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
252 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
254 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
256 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
257 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
258 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
263 Reduction of memory leaks
265 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
266 and fixed in this release.
273 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
274 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
275 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
278 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
280 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
281 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
282 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
285 Improvements in saved search management
287 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
288 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
289 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
291 Hooks for notmuch-hello
293 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
294 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
295 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
297 New face for crypto parts headers
299 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
300 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
301 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
304 Use space as default thousands separator
306 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
307 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
308 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
310 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
311 buttonized id: links.
313 New function notmuch-show-advance
315 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
316 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
317 be bound to SPC with:
319 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
321 Various performance improvements.
326 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
327 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
330 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
331 ===========================
336 Fix crash in python bindings.
338 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
339 for some, but not all users.
341 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
342 ===========================
349 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
350 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
353 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
354 =========================
356 New build and testing features
357 ------------------------------
359 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
360 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
361 prerequisites is improved.
363 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
365 New command-line features
366 -------------------------
368 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
370 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
371 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
374 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
376 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
377 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
378 favour of using stdout.
380 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
382 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
383 the number of results shown.
385 Add "notmuch count --output" option
387 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
388 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
390 New emacs UI features
391 ---------------------
393 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
395 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
396 starting with "tag:".
398 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
400 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
401 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
403 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
405 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
407 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
409 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
410 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
415 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
417 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
419 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
420 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
421 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
422 requires a database rebuild:
424 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
425 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
427 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
429 New collection of add-on tools
430 ------------------------------
432 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
433 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
434 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
437 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
439 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
440 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
441 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
443 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
444 ========================
446 New, general features
447 ---------------------
449 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
451 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
452 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
453 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
454 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
455 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
462 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
463 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
465 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
469 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
470 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
471 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
474 Python bindings changes
475 -----------------------
477 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
479 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
480 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
481 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
482 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
483 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
484 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
486 Ruby bindings changes
487 ---------------------
489 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
490 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
491 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
492 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
497 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
499 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
500 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
502 Reply formatting cleanup
503 ------------------------
505 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
506 MIME parts are being suppressed.
508 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
509 ========================
511 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
513 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
514 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
515 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
516 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
519 Improved Build system portability
521 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
522 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
523 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
525 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
527 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
529 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
531 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
532 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
533 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
535 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
536 ========================
538 Vim interface improvements
539 --------------------------
541 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
543 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
544 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
545 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
546 * fix from list reformatting in search view
547 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
549 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
551 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
552 * fix compose temp file name
554 Python Bindings changes
555 -----------------------
557 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
559 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
560 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
562 Build-System improvements
563 ------------------------
565 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
567 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
570 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
571 ==========================
576 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
578 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
579 people running gcc 4.4.5.
581 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
582 =======================
583 New, general features
584 ---------------------
585 Folder-based searching
587 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
588 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
589 storage). The syntax is as follows:
593 For example, one might use things such as:
599 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
600 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
602 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
603 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
604 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
605 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
607 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
608 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
609 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
612 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
613 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
615 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
619 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
620 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
621 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
623 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
625 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
626 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
628 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
629 notmuch will receive these tags.
631 New command-line features
632 -------------------------
633 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
635 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
636 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
638 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
640 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
641 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
642 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
644 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
646 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
647 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
648 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
649 which parts a signature part applies).
651 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
653 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
654 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
655 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
656 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
657 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
660 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
662 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
663 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
664 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
665 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
666 by translating it internally to the new call.
668 Performance improvements
669 ------------------------
670 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
672 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
673 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
674 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
676 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
677 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
679 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
681 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
682 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
683 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
685 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
686 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
687 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
688 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
690 Faster initial indexing
692 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
693 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
694 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
696 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
698 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
699 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
700 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
701 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
703 New emacs-interface features
704 ----------------------------
706 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
708 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
709 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
710 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
711 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
712 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
713 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
715 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
717 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
718 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
719 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
720 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
722 User-selectable From address
724 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
725 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
726 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
727 will prompt for the from address to use.
729 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
730 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
731 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
733 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
734 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
735 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
738 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
740 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
741 its parent, the subject is not shown.
743 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
745 When a message contains a line looking something like:
747 ----- Original Message -----
749 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
750 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
751 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
752 citations work much like conventional citations.
754 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
756 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
757 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
758 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
759 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
760 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
762 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
763 Notmuch After Tag Hook
765 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
767 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
768 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
769 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
771 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
773 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
774 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
775 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
776 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
777 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
779 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
781 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
784 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
786 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
788 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
789 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
791 Vim interface improvements
792 --------------------------
793 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
795 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
796 * Implementing archive in show view
797 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
798 * Add delete commands
801 Bindings improvements
802 ---------------------
803 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
805 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
806 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
808 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
809 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
812 - Message().get_filenames(),
813 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
814 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
816 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
817 These allow, for example:
820 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
822 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
827 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
828 Use len(list(Messages())) or
829 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
831 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
833 New build-system features
834 -------------------------
835 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
837 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
838 the configure script from some other directory:
845 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
847 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
848 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
849 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
850 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
851 manual invocation of configure.
853 New test-suite feature
854 ----------------------
855 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
857 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
858 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
859 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
860 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
861 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
864 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
866 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
867 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
868 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
869 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
870 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
871 are updated to take advantage of this.
873 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
875 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
876 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
877 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
878 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
883 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
885 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
886 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
887 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
889 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
891 This fixed a bug where a search for:
893 to:user@elsewhere.com
895 would incorrectly match a message sent:
897 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
899 Fix --output=json when search has no results
901 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
902 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
903 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
906 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
907 from the Received headers in some cases.
909 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
910 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
912 Cleaned up several memory leaks
914 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
916 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
918 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
919 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
920 interface and were never intended to be exported.
922 Emacs-interface bug fixes
923 -------------------------
924 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
926 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
927 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
928 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
930 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
932 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
933 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
934 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
937 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
939 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
940 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
941 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
942 fixed to avoid this bug.
944 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
946 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
947 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
949 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
950 ========================
951 New, general features
952 ---------------------
953 Maildir-flag synchronization
955 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
956 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
965 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
967 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
968 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
969 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
970 renamed with an 'R' flag).
972 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
973 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
974 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
975 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
978 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
980 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
981 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
982 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
984 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
985 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
987 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
988 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
990 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
991 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
992 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
996 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
998 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
999 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1000 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1001 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1003 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1004 message with the new function:
1006 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1008 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1009 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1010 all available filenames for a given message.
1012 New command-line features
1013 -------------------------
1014 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1016 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1017 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1018 access to the mail store itself.
1020 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1021 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1022 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1023 name of a script containing:
1025 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1027 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1028 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1033 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1035 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1037 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1039 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1040 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1041 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1042 now produces nothing).
1044 Emacs interface improvements
1045 ----------------------------
1046 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1048 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1050 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1052 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1054 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1056 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1058 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1059 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1060 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1061 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1062 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1063 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1064 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1066 Vim interface improvements
1067 --------------------------
1068 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1070 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1071 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1076 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1078 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1079 ========================
1080 New command-line features
1081 -------------------------
1082 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1084 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1085 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1086 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1088 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1089 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1090 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1091 scripts. For example:
1093 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1094 <operations-on> "$file"
1097 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1099 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1100 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1101 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1102 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1103 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1104 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1106 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1108 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1109 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1110 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1111 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1113 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1115 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1116 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1117 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1118 default rather than Bcc.
1120 New library features
1121 --------------------
1122 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1124 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1125 notmuch_query_t object.
1129 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1131 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1132 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1133 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1134 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1135 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1136 notmuch customize interface.
1138 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1140 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1141 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1142 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1143 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1145 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1147 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1148 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1149 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1150 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1152 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1154 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1155 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1156 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1157 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1158 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1159 notmuch customize interface.
1161 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1163 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1164 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1165 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1166 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1167 notmuch customize interface.
1169 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1171 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1172 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1173 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1174 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1177 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1179 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1180 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1181 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1184 New build-system features
1185 -------------------------
1186 Various portability fixes have been applied
1188 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1189 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1190 more portable than ever before.
1192 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1194 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1195 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1196 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1198 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1199 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1200 automatically run ldconfig.
1202 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1203 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1204 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1206 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1207 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1208 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1209 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1211 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1213 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1214 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1215 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1216 used in the resulting Makefile.
1218 New test-suite features
1219 -----------------------
1220 New modularization of test suite.
1222 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1223 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1224 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1225 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1226 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1227 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1228 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1229 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1231 New testing of emacs interface.
1233 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1234 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1235 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1236 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1237 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1238 database via the FCC setting.
1242 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1244 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1245 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1246 persistent error of the form:
1248 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1250 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1251 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1253 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1255 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1256 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1257 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1259 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1261 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1262 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1263 parsing the notmuch results).
1265 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1267 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1269 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1270 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1271 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1275 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1277 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1278 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1279 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1280 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1281 the emacs interface.
1283 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1285 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1286 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1287 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1289 Python-binding fixes
1290 --------------------
1291 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1293 Debian-specific fixes
1294 ---------------------
1295 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1297 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1298 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1299 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1302 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1303 ==========================
1306 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1308 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1309 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1310 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1311 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1313 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1315 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1316 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1317 want notmuch to crash.
1321 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1323 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1324 directory does not exist.
1328 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1330 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1331 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1333 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1334 ========================
1335 New command-line features
1336 -------------------------
1337 User-configurable tags for new messages
1339 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1340 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1341 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1342 to specify this value.
1344 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1346 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1347 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1348 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1350 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1352 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1353 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1355 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1357 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1358 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1359 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1360 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1361 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1364 Indication of author names that match a search
1366 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1367 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1368 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1369 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1370 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1371 messages in the thread are listed first.
1373 New: Python bindings
1374 --------------------
1375 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1376 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1377 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1378 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1380 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1381 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1382 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1385 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1386 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1387 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1389 Emacs interface improvements
1390 ----------------------------
1391 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1393 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1394 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1395 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1396 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1397 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1398 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1399 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1400 but without any of the disadvantages).
1402 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1403 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1404 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1407 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1408 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1409 recommend instead running something like:
1411 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1413 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1414 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1415 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1418 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1420 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1421 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1422 tweaked by the user.
1424 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1425 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1426 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1429 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1430 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1431 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1434 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1436 This support currently relies on an external program,
1437 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1438 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1439 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1440 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1441 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1444 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1445 notmuch) is available via:
1447 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1449 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1450 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1451 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1453 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1455 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1456 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1457 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1458 making this automatic in a future release.
1460 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1462 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1463 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1464 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1465 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1466 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1467 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1470 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1472 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1473 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1474 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1476 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1478 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1479 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1480 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1482 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1483 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1484 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1485 other representation.
1487 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1488 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1491 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1493 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1494 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1495 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1497 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1498 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1499 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1501 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1503 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1504 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1505 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1506 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1507 to display the search result.
1509 More flexible handling of header visibility
1511 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1512 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1513 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1514 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1515 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1516 with the 'h' keybinding.
1518 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1519 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1520 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1522 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1524 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1526 Customizable formatting of search results
1528 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1529 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1530 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1532 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1534 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1536 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1540 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1542 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1543 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1544 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1545 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1550 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1552 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1553 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1555 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1557 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1558 accept are now all accepted.
1562 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1564 Better display of output from failed tests.
1566 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1567 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1569 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1570 ========================
1571 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1572 detailed release notes this time!
1574 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1575 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1577 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1578 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1579 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1580 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1586 Better guessing of From: header.
1588 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1589 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1590 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1591 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1592 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1595 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1597 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1598 guaranteed to match all messages.
1600 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1602 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1603 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1604 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1605 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1606 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1609 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1612 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1613 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1614 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1615 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1619 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1621 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1622 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1623 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1624 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1626 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1628 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1630 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1631 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1632 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1634 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1636 Previously, the user might see:
1638 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1642 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1644 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1645 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1646 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1647 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1649 Emacs client features
1650 ---------------------
1651 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1653 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1654 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1655 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1656 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1657 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1659 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1662 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1663 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1664 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1665 search with the '*' binding.
1667 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1669 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1670 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1673 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1675 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1676 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1677 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1679 Build-system features
1680 ---------------------
1681 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1683 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1685 We include actual support for:
1687 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1689 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1691 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1692 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1694 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1695 separate "make install-emacs".
1697 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1699 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1700 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1701 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1703 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1706 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1707 ========================
1708 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1710 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1711 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1713 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1714 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1715 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1716 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1717 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1718 tags from messages in a thread.