1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
9 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
10 parts are now included in replies.
12 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
13 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
14 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
15 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
17 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
19 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
24 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
25 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
26 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
32 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
33 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
34 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
35 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
36 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
37 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
39 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
40 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
41 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
42 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
43 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
44 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
46 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
47 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
49 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
50 =========================
55 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
58 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
60 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
61 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
62 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
64 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
67 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
68 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
69 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
71 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
73 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
74 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
75 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
76 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
77 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
78 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
83 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
84 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
87 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
90 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
92 Command Line Interface
93 ----------------------
95 Database revision tracking
97 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
98 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
99 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
100 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
102 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
104 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
105 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
106 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
107 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
108 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
109 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
110 manual page for further information.
115 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
117 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
118 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
120 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
122 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
123 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
124 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
126 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
128 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
130 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
131 customization as well.
133 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
135 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
137 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
139 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
141 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
142 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
143 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
144 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
146 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
148 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
149 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
150 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
151 this variable to 10000.
156 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
157 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
159 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
161 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
162 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
163 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
164 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
165 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
166 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
167 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
168 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
169 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
172 Database revision tracking
174 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
175 query parser and the new function
176 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
178 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
182 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
183 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
184 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
185 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
190 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
192 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
193 ===========================
198 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
200 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
201 ===========================
206 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
208 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
209 =========================
211 Command-Line Interface
212 ----------------------
214 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
216 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
217 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
218 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
220 Path to gpg is now configurable
222 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
223 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
228 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
230 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
235 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
240 Support messages without Message-IDs.
245 Undeprecate single message mboxes
247 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
248 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
250 New error logging facility
252 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
253 output formerly printed to stderr.
255 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
257 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
259 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
261 Fix for rounding of seconds
266 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
268 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
269 docmumentation has been removed.
271 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
273 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
274 some material from the relicensed wiki.
279 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
280 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
281 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
286 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
287 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
288 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
289 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
290 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
291 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
294 git checkout config origin/config
296 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
298 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
299 =========================
304 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
305 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
306 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
307 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
308 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
309 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
310 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
312 Command-Line Interface
313 ----------------------
315 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
317 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
318 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
319 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
320 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
321 script callers should still check the return value.
323 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
325 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
326 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
327 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
328 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
329 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
330 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
331 and returning success even if indexing fails).
333 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
335 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
336 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
337 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
339 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
341 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
342 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
343 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
344 currently unmaintained.
346 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
348 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
349 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
350 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
351 have at least `N` files associated with them.
353 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
355 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
356 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
357 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
358 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
359 count of duplicate addresses.
364 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
366 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
367 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
368 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
371 Improved handling of the unread tag
373 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
374 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
375 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
376 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
377 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
378 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
379 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
381 Expanded default saved search settings
383 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
384 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
386 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
388 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
389 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
390 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
392 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
394 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
395 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
396 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
397 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
398 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
399 the variable for details.
404 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
406 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
407 Representing these independently of the database version number will
408 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
409 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
411 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
413 Previously, library users were required to call
414 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
415 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
416 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
417 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
418 too out of date for that API.
420 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
422 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
423 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
424 atomic section will be aborted.
426 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
427 `notmuch_database_destroy`
429 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
431 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
432 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
433 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
434 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
435 messages into the same thread.
440 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
441 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
442 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
443 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
444 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
445 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
450 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
451 from the config file. Use something like:
455 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
456 "footer": "</body></html>",
465 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
470 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
471 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
472 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
474 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
475 ===========================
480 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
482 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
484 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
486 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
487 structure for signatures changed slightly.
489 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
491 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
494 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
495 ===========================
497 This is a bug fix and portability release.
502 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
504 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
506 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
508 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
510 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
516 Use --quick when starting emacs
518 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
520 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
522 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
524 Command-Line Interface
525 ----------------------
527 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
528 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
533 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
535 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
536 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
538 Fix for phrase indexing
540 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
541 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
542 will affect only newly indexed messages.
547 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
549 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
550 unintentionally removed.
552 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
553 =========================
558 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
559 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
560 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
561 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
562 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
563 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
564 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
565 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
566 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
572 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
574 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
575 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
576 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
577 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
578 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
579 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
580 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
581 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
583 There is a new `path:` search prefix
585 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
586 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
587 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
588 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
591 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
593 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
594 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
595 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
596 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
597 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
598 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
599 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
604 Notmuch database upgrade
606 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
607 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
608 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
609 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
610 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
611 released version of Notmuch before now.
613 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
615 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
616 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
617 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
618 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
620 Message header parsing changes
622 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
623 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
624 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
625 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
626 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
627 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
629 Command-Line Interface
630 ----------------------
632 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
634 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
636 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
638 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
640 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
642 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
643 user does not want it.
645 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
647 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
648 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
649 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
650 support formatted output.
652 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
654 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
655 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
656 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
664 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
665 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
666 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
667 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
668 `~/.emacs` with these.
670 Changed format for saved searches
672 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
673 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
674 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
675 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
678 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
679 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
680 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
681 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
683 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
684 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
685 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
687 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
688 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
689 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
690 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
691 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
693 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
695 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
696 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
697 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
699 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
701 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
702 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
703 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
704 message had been unread).
706 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
707 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
708 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
709 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
711 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
712 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
713 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
715 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
716 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
717 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
718 to tags already present.
722 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
723 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
724 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
725 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
726 these differ from each other.
727 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
729 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
731 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
732 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
733 for these Emacs versions.
735 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
737 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
738 newlines before calling notmuch count.
740 Bug fixes for sender identities
742 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
743 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
744 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
746 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
748 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
749 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
750 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
751 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
753 Reply pushes mark before signature
755 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
756 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
757 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
759 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
761 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
762 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
768 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
769 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
771 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
772 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
773 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
774 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
776 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
777 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
778 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
779 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
780 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
782 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
784 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
785 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
787 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
788 =========================
790 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
791 ---------------------------------------
793 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
794 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
795 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
796 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
797 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
798 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
799 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
803 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
804 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
806 Command-Line Interface
807 ----------------------
809 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
811 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
812 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
813 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
814 print for each message.
816 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
817 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
818 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
819 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
821 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
823 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
824 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
825 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
827 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
829 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
830 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
831 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
832 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
834 `notmuch compact` command
836 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
837 functionality through a more convenient interface than
838 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
839 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
840 move the compacted database into place.
845 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
847 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
848 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
849 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
850 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
851 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
852 and multiple threads.
856 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
858 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
859 search, show and tree mode itself)
861 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
864 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
865 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
867 Customising `notmuch-tree`
869 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
870 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
871 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
872 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
873 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
874 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
875 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
877 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
879 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
880 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
881 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
882 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
883 thread when the search was performed.
885 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
887 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
888 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
889 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
891 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
893 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
894 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
897 Built-in help improvements
899 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
900 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
901 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
903 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
905 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
906 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
907 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
909 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
911 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
912 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
914 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
916 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
917 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
918 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
919 to move some of them to the common keymap.
921 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
923 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
924 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
925 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
926 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
928 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
930 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
931 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
932 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
934 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
936 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
937 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
938 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
940 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
942 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
943 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
944 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
945 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
946 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
948 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
950 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
951 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
952 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
953 the body part of the message.
958 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
959 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
960 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
962 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
963 =========================
965 Command-Line Interface
966 ----------------------
968 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
970 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
971 folder and notmuch index.
973 `notmuch count --batch` option
975 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
976 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
978 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
980 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
981 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
982 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
985 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
987 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
988 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
989 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
990 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
991 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
994 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
996 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
997 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
999 Top level option to specify configuration file
1001 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1002 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1004 Bash command-line completion
1006 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1007 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1008 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1009 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1010 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1011 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1012 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1013 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1014 bash-completion package.
1016 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1021 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1023 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1024 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1025 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1026 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1027 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1028 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1029 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1030 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1032 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1034 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1035 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1036 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1038 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1040 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1041 previous thread in the search results.
1043 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1045 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1046 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1048 Faster search and show
1050 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1051 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1052 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1053 threads should show faster.
1057 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1058 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1059 in question was now removed from this release.
1064 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1065 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1070 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1072 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1073 ===========================
1078 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1080 Internal test framework changes
1081 -------------------------------
1083 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1084 being unimplemented.
1086 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1087 ===========================
1089 Internal test framework changes
1090 -------------------------------
1092 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1093 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1095 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1096 =========================
1101 Date range search support
1103 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1104 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1105 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1106 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1107 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1110 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1112 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1113 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1114 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1115 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1116 but may be removed in a future release.
1118 Command-Line Interface
1119 ----------------------
1121 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1123 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1124 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1126 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1128 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1129 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1130 officially deprecated.
1132 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1134 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1135 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1136 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1138 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1140 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1141 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1144 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1145 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1146 dump/restore format.
1148 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1150 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1151 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1152 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1154 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1156 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1157 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1158 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1160 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1162 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1163 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1164 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1165 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1170 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1172 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1173 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1174 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1175 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1177 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1179 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1180 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1181 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1182 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1183 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1184 the behavior of this, see
1185 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1186 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1188 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1189 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1190 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1192 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1194 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1195 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1198 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1200 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1201 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1202 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1203 simply displayed in place of the message.
1205 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1207 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1208 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1210 Improved text/calendar content handling
1212 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1213 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1214 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1215 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1217 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1219 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1220 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1221 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1222 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1224 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1226 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1227 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1228 for HTML email containing images.
1230 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1232 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1234 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1236 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1239 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1241 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1242 the point where it was.
1244 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1246 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1247 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1248 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1249 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1250 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1252 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1254 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1255 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1256 thread instead of the message id.
1258 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1259 -----------------------------
1261 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1262 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1263 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1264 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1265 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1266 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1267 further details and installation.
1272 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1274 Internal test framework changes
1275 -------------------------------
1277 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1279 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1280 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1281 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1282 can result in buggy behavior.
1284 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1285 =========================
1290 Maildir tag synchronization
1292 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1293 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1294 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1295 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1296 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1297 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1300 Command-Line Interface
1301 ----------------------
1303 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1304 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1305 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1306 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1307 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1313 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1315 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1317 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1318 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1319 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1321 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1323 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1324 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1325 span multiple lines.
1327 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1329 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1330 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1331 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1332 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1333 inside the result or message.
1335 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1337 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1338 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1340 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1341 user-specified formatting
1343 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1344 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1345 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1346 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1347 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1349 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1350 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1352 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1353 ===========================
1358 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1359 compilation error for this contrib package.
1361 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1362 ===========================
1367 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1369 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1370 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1371 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1372 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1374 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1375 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1378 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1379 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1380 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1381 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1384 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1386 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1389 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1390 =========================
1392 Command-Line Interface
1393 ----------------------
1397 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1398 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1399 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1400 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1402 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1403 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1404 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1405 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1409 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1410 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1412 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1413 tag in your query, for example:
1415 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1417 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1418 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1420 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1421 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1423 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1425 Raw show format changes
1427 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1428 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1429 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1430 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1431 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1432 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1433 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1434 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1436 Listing configuration items
1438 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1444 Changes to tagging interface
1446 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1447 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1448 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1449 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1450 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1451 for more information.
1453 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1454 may need to update in custom configurations.
1456 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1458 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1459 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1460 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1461 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1464 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1465 -----------------------------
1467 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1468 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1469 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1470 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1471 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1472 contrib/ from now on.
1477 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1478 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1480 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1481 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1483 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1484 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1485 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1487 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1488 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1490 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1491 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1492 returning the new database object or directory object.
1499 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1500 compatible with go 1.
1502 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1503 =========================
1505 Command-Line Interface
1506 ----------------------
1510 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1511 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1512 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1513 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1515 Mail store folder/file ignore
1517 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1518 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1519 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1521 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1522 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1524 Unified help and manual pages
1526 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1527 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1530 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1532 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1533 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1541 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1542 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1543 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1544 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1546 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1548 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1549 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1551 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1554 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1555 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1556 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1558 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1560 should be changed to:
1562 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1564 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1566 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1567 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1569 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1571 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1572 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1573 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1574 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1575 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1576 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1580 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1581 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1582 of Mailing List Archives.
1584 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1586 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1587 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1590 Show view archiving key binding changes
1592 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1593 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1594 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1595 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1596 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1599 Support text/calendar MIME type
1601 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1604 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1606 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1607 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1608 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1609 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1611 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1613 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1614 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1615 messages blue by default in the search view.
1619 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1620 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1627 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1630 Python bindings changes
1631 -----------------------
1633 Python 3.2 compatibility
1635 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1637 Added missing unicode conversions
1639 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1640 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1641 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1646 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1648 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1649 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1650 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1651 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1652 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1654 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1655 ===========================
1660 Fix error handling in python bindings
1662 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1663 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1664 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1665 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1667 Quote MML tags in replies
1669 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1670 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1671 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1672 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1673 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1674 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1675 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1676 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1678 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1679 =========================
1681 Command-Line Interface
1682 ----------------------
1686 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1687 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1688 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1689 importing new messages into the database.
1691 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1693 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1694 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1695 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1700 Automatic tag query optimization
1702 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1703 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1704 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1706 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1708 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1709 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1710 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1715 Reduction of memory leaks
1717 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1718 and fixed in this release.
1725 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1726 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1727 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1730 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1732 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1733 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1734 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1737 Improvements in saved search management
1739 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1740 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1741 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1743 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1745 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1746 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1747 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1749 New face for crypto parts headers
1751 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1752 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1753 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1756 Use space as default thousands separator
1758 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1759 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1760 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1762 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1763 buttonized id: links
1765 New function notmuch-show-advance
1767 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1768 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1769 be bound to SPC with:
1771 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1773 Various performance improvements
1778 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1779 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1782 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1783 ===========================
1788 Fix crash in python bindings
1790 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1791 for some, but not all users.
1793 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1794 ===========================
1799 Fix `--help` argument
1801 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1802 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1803 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1805 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1806 =========================
1808 New build and testing features
1809 ------------------------------
1811 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1812 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1813 prerequisites is improved.
1815 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1817 New command-line features
1818 -------------------------
1820 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1822 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1823 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1826 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1828 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1829 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1830 favour of using stdout.
1832 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1834 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1835 limit the number of results shown.
1837 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1839 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1840 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1843 New emacs UI features
1844 ---------------------
1846 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1848 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1849 starting with "tag:".
1851 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1853 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1854 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1856 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1858 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1860 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1862 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1863 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1868 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1870 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1872 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1873 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1874 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1875 requires a database rebuild:
1877 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1878 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1880 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1882 New collection of add-on tools
1883 ------------------------------
1885 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1886 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1887 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1890 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1892 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1893 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1894 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1896 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1897 ========================
1899 New, general features
1900 ---------------------
1902 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1904 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1905 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1906 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1907 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1908 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1915 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1916 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1918 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1922 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1923 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1924 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1927 Python bindings changes
1928 -----------------------
1930 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1932 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1933 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1934 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1935 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1936 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1937 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1939 Ruby bindings changes
1940 ---------------------
1942 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1943 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1944 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1945 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1950 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1952 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1953 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1955 Reply formatting cleanup
1956 ------------------------
1958 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1959 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1961 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1962 ========================
1964 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1966 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1967 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1968 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1969 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1972 Improved Build system portability
1974 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1975 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1976 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1978 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1980 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1982 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1984 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1985 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1986 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1988 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1989 ========================
1991 Vim interface improvements
1992 --------------------------
1994 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1996 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1997 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1998 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1999 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2000 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2002 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2004 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2005 * fix compose temp file name
2007 Python Bindings changes
2008 -----------------------
2010 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2012 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2013 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2015 Build-System improvements
2016 -------------------------
2018 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2020 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2023 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2024 ==========================
2029 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2031 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2032 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2034 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2035 =======================
2037 New, general features
2038 ---------------------
2040 Folder-based searching
2042 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2043 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2044 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2048 For example, one might use things such as:
2054 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2055 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2057 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2058 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2059 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2060 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2062 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2063 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2064 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2067 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2068 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2070 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2072 Support for PGP/MIME
2074 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2075 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2076 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2078 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2080 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2081 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2083 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2084 notmuch will receive these tags.
2086 New command-line features
2087 -------------------------
2089 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2091 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2092 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2094 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2096 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2097 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2098 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2100 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2102 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2103 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2104 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2105 which parts a signature part applies).
2107 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2109 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2110 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2111 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2112 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2113 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2116 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2118 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2119 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2120 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2121 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2122 by translating it internally to the new call.
2124 Performance improvements
2125 ------------------------
2127 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2129 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2130 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2131 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2133 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2134 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2136 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2138 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2139 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2140 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2142 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2143 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2144 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2145 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2147 Faster initial indexing
2149 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2150 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2151 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2153 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2155 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2156 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2157 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2158 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2160 New emacs-interface features
2161 ----------------------------
2163 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2165 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2166 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2167 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2168 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2169 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2170 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2172 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2174 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2175 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2176 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2177 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2179 User-selectable From address
2181 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2182 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2183 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2184 will prompt for the from address to use.
2186 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2187 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2188 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2190 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2191 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2192 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2195 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2197 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2198 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2200 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2202 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2204 ----- Original Message -----
2206 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2207 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2208 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2209 citations work much like conventional citations.
2211 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2213 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2214 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2215 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2216 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2217 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2219 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2220 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2222 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2224 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2225 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2226 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2228 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2230 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2231 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2232 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2233 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2234 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2236 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2238 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2241 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2243 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2245 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2247 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2250 Vim interface improvements
2251 --------------------------
2253 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2255 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2256 * Implementing archive in show view
2257 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2258 * Add delete commands
2261 Bindings improvements
2262 ---------------------
2264 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2266 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2267 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2269 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2271 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2275 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2276 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2277 `list(Messages)` works now
2278 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2280 These allow, for example:
2282 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2284 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2286 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2292 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2294 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2297 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2299 New build-system features
2300 -------------------------
2302 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2304 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2305 the configure script from some other directory:
2312 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2314 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2315 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2316 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2317 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2318 manual invocation of configure.
2320 New test-suite feature
2321 ----------------------
2323 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2325 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2326 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2327 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2328 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2329 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2332 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2334 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2335 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2336 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2337 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2338 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2339 are updated to take advantage of this.
2341 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2343 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2344 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2345 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2346 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2352 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2354 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2355 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2356 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2358 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2360 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2362 to:user@elsewhere.com
2364 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2366 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2368 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2370 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2371 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2372 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2375 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2376 from the Received headers in some cases
2378 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2379 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2381 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2383 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2385 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2387 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2388 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2389 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2391 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2392 -------------------------
2394 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2396 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2397 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2398 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2400 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2402 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2403 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2404 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2407 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2409 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2410 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2411 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2412 fixed to avoid this bug.
2414 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2416 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2417 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2419 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2420 ========================
2422 New, general features
2423 ---------------------
2425 Maildir-flag synchronization
2427 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2428 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2437 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2439 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2440 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2441 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2442 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2444 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2445 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2446 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2447 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2450 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2452 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2453 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2454 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2456 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2457 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2459 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2460 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2462 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2463 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2464 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2466 New library features
2467 --------------------
2469 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2471 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2472 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2473 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2474 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2476 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2477 message with the new function:
2479 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2481 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2482 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2483 over all available filenames for a given message.
2485 New command-line features
2486 -------------------------
2488 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2490 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2491 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2492 access to the mail store itself.
2494 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2495 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2496 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2497 name of a script containing:
2499 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2501 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2502 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2508 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2510 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2512 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2514 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2515 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2516 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2517 now produces nothing).
2519 Emacs interface improvements
2520 ----------------------------
2522 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2524 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2526 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2528 Display current thread subject in a header line
2530 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2532 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2534 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2535 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2536 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2537 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2538 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2539 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2540 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2542 Vim interface improvements
2543 --------------------------
2545 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2547 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2548 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2554 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2556 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2557 ========================
2559 New command-line features
2560 -------------------------
2562 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2564 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2565 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2566 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2568 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2569 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2570 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2571 scripts. For example:
2573 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2574 <operations-on> "$file"
2577 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2579 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2580 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2581 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2582 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2583 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2584 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2586 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2588 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2589 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2590 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2591 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2593 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2595 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2596 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2597 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2598 default rather than Bcc.
2600 New library features
2601 --------------------
2603 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2605 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2606 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2611 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2613 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2614 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2615 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2616 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2617 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2618 notmuch customize interface.
2620 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2622 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2623 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2624 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2625 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2627 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2629 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2630 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2631 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2632 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2634 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2636 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2637 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2638 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2639 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2640 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2641 notmuch customize interface.
2643 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2645 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2646 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2647 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2648 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2649 notmuch customize interface.
2651 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2653 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2654 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2655 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2656 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2659 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2661 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2662 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2663 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2666 New build-system features
2667 -------------------------
2669 Various portability fixes have been applied
2671 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2672 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2673 more portable than ever before.
2675 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2677 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2678 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2679 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2681 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2682 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2683 automatically run ldconfig.
2685 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2686 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2687 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2689 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2690 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2691 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2692 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2694 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2696 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2697 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2698 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2699 used in the resulting Makefile.
2701 New test-suite features
2702 -----------------------
2704 New modularization of test suite
2706 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2707 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2708 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2709 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2710 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2711 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2712 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2713 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2715 New testing of emacs interface
2717 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2718 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2719 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2720 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2721 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2722 database via the FCC setting.
2727 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2729 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2730 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2731 persistent error of the form:
2733 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2735 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2736 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2738 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2740 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2741 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2742 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2744 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2746 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2747 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2748 parsing the notmuch results).
2750 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2752 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2755 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2756 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2757 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2762 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2764 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2765 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2766 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2767 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2768 the emacs interface.
2770 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2772 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2773 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2774 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2776 Python-binding fixes
2777 --------------------
2779 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2781 Debian-specific fixes
2782 ---------------------
2784 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2786 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2787 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2788 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2791 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2792 ==========================
2797 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2799 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2800 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2801 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2802 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2804 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2806 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2807 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2808 want notmuch to crash.
2813 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2815 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2816 directory does not exist
2821 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2823 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2824 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2826 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2827 ========================
2829 New command-line features
2830 -------------------------
2832 User-configurable tags for new messages
2834 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2835 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2836 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2837 to specify this value.
2839 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2841 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2842 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2843 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2845 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2847 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2848 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2850 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2852 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2853 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2854 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2855 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2856 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2859 Indication of author names that match a search
2861 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2862 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2863 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2864 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2865 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2866 messages in the thread are listed first.
2868 New: Python bindings
2869 --------------------
2871 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2872 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2873 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2874 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2876 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2877 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2878 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2881 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2882 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2883 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2885 Emacs interface improvements
2886 ----------------------------
2888 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2890 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2891 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2892 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2893 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2894 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2895 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2896 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2897 but without any of the disadvantages).
2899 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2900 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2901 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2904 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2905 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2906 instead running something like:
2908 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2910 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2911 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2912 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2915 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2917 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2918 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2919 tweaked by the user.
2921 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2922 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2923 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2926 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2927 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2928 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2931 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2933 This support currently relies on an external program,
2934 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2935 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2936 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2937 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2938 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2941 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2942 notmuch) is available via:
2944 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2946 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2947 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2948 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2950 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2952 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2953 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2954 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2955 making this automatic in a future release.
2957 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2959 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2960 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2961 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2962 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2963 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2964 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2967 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2969 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2970 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2971 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2973 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2975 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2976 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2977 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2979 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2980 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2981 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2982 other representation.
2984 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2985 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2988 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2990 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2991 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2992 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2994 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2995 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2996 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2998 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3000 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3001 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3002 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3003 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3004 to display the search result.
3006 More flexible handling of header visibility
3008 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3009 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3010 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3011 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3012 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3013 with the 'h' keybinding.
3015 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3016 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3017 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3019 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3021 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3023 Customizable formatting of search results
3025 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3026 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3027 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3029 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3031 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3033 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3038 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3040 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3041 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3042 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3043 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3049 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3051 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3052 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3054 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3056 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3057 accept are now all accepted.
3062 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3064 Better display of output from failed tests
3066 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3067 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3069 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3070 ========================
3072 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3073 detailed release notes this time!
3075 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3076 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3078 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3079 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3080 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3081 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3088 Better guessing of From: header
3090 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3091 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3092 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3093 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3094 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3097 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3099 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3100 guaranteed to match all messages.
3102 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3104 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3105 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3106 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3107 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3108 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3111 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3114 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3115 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3116 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3117 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3122 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3124 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3125 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3126 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3127 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3129 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3131 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3133 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3134 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3135 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3137 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3139 Previously, the user might see:
3141 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3145 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3147 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3148 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3149 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3150 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3152 Emacs client features
3153 ---------------------
3155 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3157 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3158 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3159 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3160 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3161 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3163 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3166 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3167 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3168 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3169 search with the '*' binding.
3171 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3173 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3174 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3177 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3179 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3180 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3181 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3183 Build-system features
3184 ---------------------
3186 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3188 Add support to configure for many standard options
3190 We include actual support for:
3192 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3194 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3196 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3197 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3199 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3200 separate "make install-emacs"
3202 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3204 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3205 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3206 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3208 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3211 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3212 ========================
3214 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3216 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3217 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3219 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3220 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3221 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3222 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3223 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3224 tags from messages in a thread.
3231 indent-tabs-mode: nil