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 intelligently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
44 Raw show format changes
46 The output of show --format=raw has changed for multipart and
47 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
48 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
49 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
50 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
51 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
52 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
53 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
55 Listing configuration items
57 The new "config list" command prints out all configuration items and
63 Changes to tagging interface
65 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
66 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
67 'notmuch-search-tag' in search-mode, and 'notmuch-show-tag' in
68 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
69 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
72 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
73 may need to update in custom configurations.
75 Reply improvement using the JSON format
77 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
78 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
79 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
80 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
83 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
84 -----------------------------
86 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
87 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
88 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
89 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
90 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
96 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
97 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
99 The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
100 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy
102 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
103 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
104 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
106 notmuch_database_open, notmuch_database_create, and
107 notmuch_database_get_directory now return errors
109 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
110 functions now return a notmuch_status_t and take an out-argument for
111 returning the new database object or directory object.
118 The go bindings and the notmuch-addrlookup utility are now
119 compatible with go 1.
121 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
122 =========================
124 Command-Line Interface
125 ----------------------
129 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
130 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
131 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
132 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
134 Mail store folder/file ignore
136 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
137 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
138 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
140 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
141 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
143 Unified help and manual pages
145 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
146 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
149 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
151 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
152 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
160 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
161 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
162 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
163 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
165 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
167 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
168 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
170 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
173 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
174 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
175 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
177 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
179 should be changed to:
181 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
183 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
185 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
186 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
188 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
190 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
191 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
192 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
193 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
194 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
195 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
199 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
200 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
201 of Mailing List Archives.
203 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
205 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
206 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
209 Show view archiving key binding changes
211 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
212 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
213 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
214 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
215 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
218 Support text/calendar MIME type
220 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
223 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
225 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
226 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
227 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
228 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
230 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
232 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
233 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
234 messages blue by default in the search view.
238 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
239 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
246 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
249 Python bindings changes
250 -----------------------
252 Python 3.2 compatibility
254 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
256 Added missing unicode conversions
258 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
259 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
260 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
265 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
267 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
268 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
269 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
270 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
271 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
273 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
274 ===========================
279 Fix error handling in python bindings
281 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
282 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
283 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
284 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
286 Quote MML tags in replies
288 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
289 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
290 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
291 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
292 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
293 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
294 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
295 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
297 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
298 =========================
300 Command-Line Interface
301 ----------------------
305 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
306 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
307 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
308 importing new messages into the database.
310 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
312 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
313 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
314 sometimes. This is now fixed.
319 Automatic tag query optimization
321 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
322 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
323 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
325 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
327 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
328 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
329 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
334 Reduction of memory leaks
336 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
337 and fixed in this release.
344 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
345 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
346 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
349 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
351 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
352 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
353 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
356 Improvements in saved search management
358 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
359 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
360 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
362 Hooks for notmuch-hello
364 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
365 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
366 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
368 New face for crypto parts headers
370 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
371 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
372 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
375 Use space as default thousands separator
377 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
378 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
379 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
381 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
384 New function notmuch-show-advance
386 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
387 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
388 be bound to SPC with:
390 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
392 Various performance improvements
397 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
398 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
401 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
402 ===========================
407 Fix crash in python bindings
409 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
410 for some, but not all users.
412 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
413 ===========================
418 Fix `--help` argument
420 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
421 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
422 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
424 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
425 =========================
427 New build and testing features
428 ------------------------------
430 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
431 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
432 prerequisites is improved.
434 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
436 New command-line features
437 -------------------------
439 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
441 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
442 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
445 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
447 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
448 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
449 favour of using stdout.
451 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
453 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
454 limit the number of results shown.
456 Add `notmuch count --output` option
458 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
459 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
462 New emacs UI features
463 ---------------------
465 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
467 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
468 starting with "tag:".
470 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
472 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
473 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
475 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
477 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
479 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
481 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
482 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
487 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
489 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
491 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
492 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
493 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
494 requires a database rebuild:
496 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
497 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
499 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
501 New collection of add-on tools
502 ------------------------------
504 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
505 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
506 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
509 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
511 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
512 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
513 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
515 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
516 ========================
518 New, general features
519 ---------------------
521 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
523 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
524 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
525 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
526 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
527 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
534 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
535 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
537 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
541 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
542 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
543 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
546 Python bindings changes
547 -----------------------
549 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
551 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
552 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
553 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
554 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
555 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
556 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
558 Ruby bindings changes
559 ---------------------
561 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
562 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
563 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
564 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
569 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
571 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
572 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
574 Reply formatting cleanup
575 ------------------------
577 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
578 MIME parts are being suppressed.
580 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
581 ========================
583 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
585 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
586 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
587 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
588 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
591 Improved Build system portability
593 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
594 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
595 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
597 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
599 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
601 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
603 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
604 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
605 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
607 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
608 ========================
610 Vim interface improvements
611 --------------------------
613 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
615 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
616 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
617 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
618 * fix from list reformatting in search view
619 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
621 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
623 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
624 * fix compose temp file name
626 Python Bindings changes
627 -----------------------
629 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
631 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
632 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
634 Build-System improvements
635 -------------------------
637 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
639 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
642 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
643 ==========================
648 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
650 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
651 people running gcc 4.4.5.
653 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
654 =======================
656 New, general features
657 ---------------------
659 Folder-based searching
661 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
662 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
663 storage). The syntax is as follows:
667 For example, one might use things such as:
673 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
674 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
676 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
677 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
678 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
679 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
681 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
682 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
683 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
686 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
687 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
689 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
693 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
694 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
695 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
697 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
699 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
700 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
702 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
703 notmuch will receive these tags.
705 New command-line features
706 -------------------------
708 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
710 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
711 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
713 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
715 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
716 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
717 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
719 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
721 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
722 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
723 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
724 which parts a signature part applies).
726 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
728 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
729 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
730 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
731 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
732 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
735 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
737 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
738 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
739 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
740 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
741 by translating it internally to the new call.
743 Performance improvements
744 ------------------------
746 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
748 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
749 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
750 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
752 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
753 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
755 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
757 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
758 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
759 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
761 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
762 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
763 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
764 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
766 Faster initial indexing
768 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
769 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
770 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
772 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
774 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
775 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
776 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
777 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
779 New emacs-interface features
780 ----------------------------
782 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
784 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
785 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
786 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
787 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
788 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
789 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
791 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
793 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
794 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
795 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
796 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
798 User-selectable From address
800 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
801 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
802 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
803 will prompt for the from address to use.
805 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
806 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
807 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
809 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
810 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
811 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
814 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
816 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
817 its parent, the subject is not shown.
819 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
821 When a message contains a line looking something like:
823 ----- Original Message -----
825 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
826 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
827 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
828 citations work much like conventional citations.
830 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
832 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
833 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
834 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
835 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
836 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
838 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
839 Notmuch After Tag Hook
841 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
843 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
844 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
845 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
847 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
849 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
850 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
851 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
852 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
853 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
855 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
857 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
860 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
862 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
864 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
866 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
869 Vim interface improvements
870 --------------------------
872 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
874 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
875 * Implementing archive in show view
876 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
877 * Add delete commands
880 Bindings improvements
881 ---------------------
883 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
885 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
886 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
888 Python bindings have been updated and extended
890 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
894 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
895 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
896 `list(Messages)` works now
897 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
899 These allow, for example:
903 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
905 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
911 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
913 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
916 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
918 New build-system features
919 -------------------------
921 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
923 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
924 the configure script from some other directory:
931 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
933 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
934 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
935 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
936 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
937 manual invocation of configure.
939 New test-suite feature
940 ----------------------
942 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
944 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
945 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
946 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
947 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
948 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
951 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
953 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
954 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
955 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
956 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
957 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
958 are updated to take advantage of this.
960 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
962 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
963 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
964 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
965 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
971 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
973 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
974 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
975 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
977 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
979 This fixed a bug where a search for:
981 to:user@elsewhere.com
983 would incorrectly match a message sent:
985 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
987 Fix --output=json when search has no results
989 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
990 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
991 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
994 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
995 from the Received headers in some cases
997 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
998 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1000 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1002 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1004 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1006 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1007 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1008 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1010 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1011 -------------------------
1013 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1015 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1016 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1017 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1019 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1021 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1022 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1023 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1026 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1028 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1029 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1030 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1031 fixed to avoid this bug.
1033 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1035 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1036 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1038 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1039 ========================
1041 New, general features
1042 ---------------------
1044 Maildir-flag synchronization
1046 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1047 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1056 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1058 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1059 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1060 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1061 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1063 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1064 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1065 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1066 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1069 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1071 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1072 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1073 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1075 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1076 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1078 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1079 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1081 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1082 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1083 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1085 New library features
1086 --------------------
1088 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1090 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1091 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1092 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1093 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1095 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1096 message with the new function:
1098 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1100 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1101 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1102 over all available filenames for a given message.
1104 New command-line features
1105 -------------------------
1107 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1109 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1110 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1111 access to the mail store itself.
1113 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1114 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1115 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1116 name of a script containing:
1118 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1120 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1121 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1127 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1129 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1131 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1133 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1134 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1135 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1136 now produces nothing).
1138 Emacs interface improvements
1139 ----------------------------
1141 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1143 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1145 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1147 Display current thread subject in a header line
1149 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1151 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1153 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1154 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1155 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1156 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1157 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1158 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1159 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1161 Vim interface improvements
1162 --------------------------
1164 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1166 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1167 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1173 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1175 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1176 ========================
1178 New command-line features
1179 -------------------------
1181 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1183 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1184 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1185 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1187 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1188 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1189 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1190 scripts. For example:
1192 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1193 <operations-on> "$file"
1196 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1198 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1199 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1200 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1201 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1202 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1203 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1205 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1207 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1208 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1209 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1210 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1212 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1214 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1215 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1216 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1217 default rather than Bcc.
1219 New library features
1220 --------------------
1222 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1224 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1225 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1230 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1232 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1233 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1234 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1235 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1236 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1237 notmuch customize interface.
1239 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1241 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1242 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1243 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1244 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1246 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1248 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1249 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1250 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1251 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1253 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1255 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1256 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1257 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1258 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1259 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1260 notmuch customize interface.
1262 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1264 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1265 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1266 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1267 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1268 notmuch customize interface.
1270 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1272 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1273 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1274 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1275 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1278 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1280 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1281 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1282 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1285 New build-system features
1286 -------------------------
1288 Various portability fixes have been applied
1290 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1291 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1292 more portable than ever before.
1294 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1296 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1297 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1298 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1300 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1301 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1302 automatically run ldconfig.
1304 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1305 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1306 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1308 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1309 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1310 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1311 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1313 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1315 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1316 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1317 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1318 used in the resulting Makefile.
1320 New test-suite features
1321 -----------------------
1323 New modularization of test suite
1325 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1326 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1327 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1328 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1329 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1330 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1331 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1332 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1334 New testing of emacs interface
1336 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1337 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1338 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1339 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1340 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1341 database via the FCC setting.
1346 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1348 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1349 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1350 persistent error of the form:
1352 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1354 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1355 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1357 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1359 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1360 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1361 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1363 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1365 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1366 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1367 parsing the notmuch results).
1369 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1371 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1374 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1375 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1376 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1381 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1383 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1384 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1385 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1386 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1387 the emacs interface.
1389 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1391 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1392 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1393 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1395 Python-binding fixes
1396 --------------------
1398 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1400 Debian-specific fixes
1401 ---------------------
1403 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1405 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1406 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1407 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1410 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1411 ==========================
1416 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1418 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1419 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1420 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1421 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1423 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1425 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1426 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1427 want notmuch to crash.
1432 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1434 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1435 directory does not exist
1440 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1442 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1443 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1445 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1446 ========================
1448 New command-line features
1449 -------------------------
1451 User-configurable tags for new messages
1453 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1454 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1455 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1456 to specify this value.
1458 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1460 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1461 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1462 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1464 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1466 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1467 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1469 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1471 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1472 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1473 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1474 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1475 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1478 Indication of author names that match a search
1480 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1481 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1482 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1483 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1484 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1485 messages in the thread are listed first.
1487 New: Python bindings
1488 --------------------
1490 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1491 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1492 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1493 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1495 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1496 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1497 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1500 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1501 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1502 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1504 Emacs interface improvements
1505 ----------------------------
1507 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1509 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1510 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1511 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1512 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1513 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1514 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1515 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1516 but without any of the disadvantages).
1518 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1519 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1520 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1523 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1524 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1525 instead running something like:
1527 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1529 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1530 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1531 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1534 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1536 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1537 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1538 tweaked by the user.
1540 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1541 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1542 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1545 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1546 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1547 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1550 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1552 This support currently relies on an external program,
1553 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1554 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1555 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1556 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1557 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1560 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1561 notmuch) is available via:
1563 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1565 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1566 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1567 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1569 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1571 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1572 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1573 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1574 making this automatic in a future release.
1576 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1578 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1579 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1580 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1581 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1582 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1583 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1586 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1588 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1589 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1590 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1592 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1594 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1595 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1596 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1598 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1599 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1600 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1601 other representation.
1603 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1604 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1607 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1609 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1610 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1611 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1613 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1614 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1615 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1617 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1619 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1620 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1621 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1622 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1623 to display the search result.
1625 More flexible handling of header visibility
1627 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1628 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1629 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1630 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1631 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1632 with the 'h' keybinding.
1634 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1635 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1636 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1638 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1640 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1642 Customizable formatting of search results
1644 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1645 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1646 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1648 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1650 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1652 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1657 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1659 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1660 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1661 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1662 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1668 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1670 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1671 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1673 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1675 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1676 accept are now all accepted.
1681 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1683 Better display of output from failed tests
1685 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1686 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1688 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1689 ========================
1691 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1692 detailed release notes this time!
1694 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1695 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1697 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1698 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1699 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1700 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1707 Better guessing of From: header
1709 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1710 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1711 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1712 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1713 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1716 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1718 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1719 guaranteed to match all messages.
1721 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1723 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1724 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1725 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1726 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1727 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1730 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1733 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1734 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1735 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1736 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1741 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1743 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1744 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1745 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1746 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1748 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1750 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1752 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1753 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1754 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1756 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1758 Previously, the user might see:
1760 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1764 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1766 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1767 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1768 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1769 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1771 Emacs client features
1772 ---------------------
1774 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1776 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1777 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1778 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1779 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1780 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1782 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1785 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1786 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1787 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1788 search with the '*' binding.
1790 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1792 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1793 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1796 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1798 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1799 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1800 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1802 Build-system features
1803 ---------------------
1805 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1807 Add support to configure for many standard options
1809 We include actual support for:
1811 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1813 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1815 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1816 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1818 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1819 separate "make install-emacs"
1821 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1823 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1824 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1825 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1827 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1830 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1831 ========================
1833 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1835 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1836 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1838 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1839 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1840 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1841 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1842 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1843 tags from messages in a thread.
1850 indent-tabs-mode: nil