1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
28 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
29 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
30 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
31 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
33 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
35 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
36 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
38 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
41 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
42 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
43 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
45 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
49 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
51 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
53 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
54 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
56 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
58 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
59 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
60 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
61 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
62 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
63 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
67 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
68 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
69 of Mailing List Archives.
71 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
73 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
74 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
77 Show view archiving key binding changes
79 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
80 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
81 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
82 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
83 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
91 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
94 Python bindings changes
95 -----------------------
97 Python 3.2 compatibility
99 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
101 Added missing unicode conversions
103 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
104 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
105 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
110 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
112 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
113 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
114 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
116 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
117 ===========================
122 Fix error handling in python bindings.
124 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
125 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
126 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
127 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
129 Quote MML tags in replies
131 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
132 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
133 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
134 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
135 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
136 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
137 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
138 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
140 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
141 =========================
143 Command-Line Interface
144 ----------------------
148 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
149 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
150 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
151 importing new messages into the database.
153 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
155 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
156 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
157 sometimes. This is now fixed.
162 Automatic tag query optimization
164 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
165 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
166 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
168 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
170 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
171 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
172 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
177 Reduction of memory leaks
179 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
180 and fixed in this release.
187 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
188 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
189 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
192 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
194 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
195 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
196 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
199 Improvements in saved search management
201 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
202 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
203 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
205 Hooks for notmuch-hello
207 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
208 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
209 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
211 New face for crypto parts headers
213 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
214 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
215 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
218 Use space as default thousands separator
220 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
221 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
222 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
224 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
225 buttonized id: links.
227 New function notmuch-show-advance
229 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
230 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
231 be bound to SPC with:
233 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
235 Various performance improvements.
240 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
241 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
244 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
245 ===========================
250 Fix crash in python bindings.
252 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
253 for some, but not all users.
255 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
256 ===========================
263 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
264 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
267 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
268 =========================
270 New build and testing features
271 ------------------------------
273 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
274 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
275 prerequisites is improved.
277 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
279 New command-line features
280 -------------------------
282 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
284 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
285 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
288 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
290 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
291 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
292 favour of using stdout.
294 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
296 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
297 the number of results shown.
299 Add "notmuch count --output" option
301 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
302 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
304 New emacs UI features
305 ---------------------
307 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
309 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
310 starting with "tag:".
312 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
314 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
315 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
317 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
319 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
321 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
323 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
324 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
329 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
331 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
333 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
334 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
335 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
336 requires a database rebuild:
338 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
339 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
341 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
343 New collection of add-on tools
344 ------------------------------
346 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
347 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
348 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
351 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
353 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
354 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
355 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
357 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
358 ========================
360 New, general features
361 ---------------------
363 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
365 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
366 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
367 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
368 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
369 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
376 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
377 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
379 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
383 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
384 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
385 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
388 Python bindings changes
389 -----------------------
391 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
393 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
394 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
395 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
396 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
397 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
398 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
400 Ruby bindings changes
401 ---------------------
403 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
404 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
405 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
406 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
411 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
413 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
414 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
416 Reply formatting cleanup
417 ------------------------
419 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
420 MIME parts are being suppressed.
422 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
423 ========================
425 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
427 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
428 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
429 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
430 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
433 Improved Build system portability
435 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
436 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
437 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
439 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
441 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
443 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
445 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
446 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
447 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
449 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
450 ========================
452 Vim interface improvements
453 --------------------------
455 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
457 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
458 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
459 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
460 * fix from list reformatting in search view
461 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
463 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
465 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
466 * fix compose temp file name
468 Python Bindings changes
469 -----------------------
471 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
473 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
474 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
476 Build-System improvements
477 ------------------------
479 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
481 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
484 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
485 ==========================
490 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
492 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
493 people running gcc 4.4.5.
495 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
496 =======================
497 New, general features
498 ---------------------
499 Folder-based searching
501 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
502 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
503 storage). The syntax is as follows:
507 For example, one might use things such as:
513 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
514 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
516 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
517 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
518 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
519 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
521 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
522 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
523 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
526 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
527 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
529 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
533 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
534 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
535 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
537 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
539 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
540 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
542 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
543 notmuch will receive these tags.
545 New command-line features
546 -------------------------
547 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
549 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
550 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
552 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
554 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
555 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
556 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
558 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
560 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
561 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
562 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
563 which parts a signature part applies).
565 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
567 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
568 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
569 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
570 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
571 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
574 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
576 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
577 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
578 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
579 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
580 by translating it internally to the new call.
582 Performance improvements
583 ------------------------
584 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
586 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
587 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
588 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
590 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
591 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
593 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
595 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
596 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
597 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
599 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
600 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
601 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
602 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
604 Faster initial indexing
606 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
607 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
608 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
610 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
612 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
613 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
614 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
615 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
617 New emacs-interface features
618 ----------------------------
620 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
622 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
623 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
624 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
625 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
626 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
627 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
629 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
631 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
632 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
633 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
634 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
636 User-selectable From address
638 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
639 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
640 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
641 will prompt for the from address to use.
643 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
644 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
645 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
647 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
648 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
649 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
652 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
654 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
655 its parent, the subject is not shown.
657 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
659 When a message contains a line looking something like:
661 ----- Original Message -----
663 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
664 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
665 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
666 citations work much like conventional citations.
668 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
670 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
671 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
672 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
673 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
674 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
676 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
677 Notmuch After Tag Hook
679 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
681 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
682 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
683 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
685 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
687 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
688 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
689 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
690 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
691 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
693 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
695 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
698 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
700 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
702 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
703 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
705 Vim interface improvements
706 --------------------------
707 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
709 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
710 * Implementing archive in show view
711 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
712 * Add delete commands
715 Bindings improvements
716 ---------------------
717 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
719 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
720 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
722 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
723 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
726 - Message().get_filenames(),
727 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
728 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
730 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
731 These allow, for example:
734 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
736 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
741 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
742 Use len(list(Messages())) or
743 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
745 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
747 New build-system features
748 -------------------------
749 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
751 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
752 the configure script from some other directory:
759 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
761 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
762 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
763 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
764 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
765 manual invocation of configure.
767 New test-suite feature
768 ----------------------
769 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
771 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
772 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
773 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
774 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
775 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
778 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
780 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
781 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
782 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
783 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
784 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
785 are updated to take advantage of this.
787 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
789 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
790 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
791 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
792 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
797 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
799 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
800 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
801 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
803 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
805 This fixed a bug where a search for:
807 to:user@elsewhere.com
809 would incorrectly match a message sent:
811 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
813 Fix --output=json when search has no results
815 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
816 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
817 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
820 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
821 from the Received headers in some cases.
823 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
824 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
826 Cleaned up several memory leaks
828 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
830 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
832 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
833 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
834 interface and were never intended to be exported.
836 Emacs-interface bug fixes
837 -------------------------
838 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
840 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
841 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
842 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
844 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
846 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
847 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
848 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
851 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
853 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
854 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
855 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
856 fixed to avoid this bug.
858 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
860 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
861 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
863 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
864 ========================
865 New, general features
866 ---------------------
867 Maildir-flag synchronization
869 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
870 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
879 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
881 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
882 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
883 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
884 renamed with an 'R' flag).
886 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
887 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
888 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
889 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
892 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
894 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
895 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
896 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
898 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
899 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
901 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
902 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
904 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
905 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
906 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
910 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
912 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
913 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
914 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
915 notmuch_message_get_filename).
917 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
918 message with the new function:
920 notmuch_message_get_filenames
922 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
923 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
924 all available filenames for a given message.
926 New command-line features
927 -------------------------
928 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
930 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
931 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
932 access to the mail store itself.
934 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
935 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
936 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
937 name of a script containing:
939 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
941 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
942 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
947 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
949 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
951 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
953 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
954 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
955 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
956 now produces nothing).
958 Emacs interface improvements
959 ----------------------------
960 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
962 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
964 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
966 Display current thread subject in a header line.
968 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
970 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
972 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
973 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
974 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
975 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
976 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
977 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
978 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
980 Vim interface improvements
981 --------------------------
982 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
984 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
985 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
990 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
992 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
993 ========================
994 New command-line features
995 -------------------------
996 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
998 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
999 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1000 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1002 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1003 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1004 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1005 scripts. For example:
1007 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1008 <operations-on> "$file"
1011 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1013 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1014 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1015 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1016 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1017 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1018 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1020 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1022 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1023 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1024 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1025 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1027 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1029 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1030 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1031 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1032 default rather than Bcc.
1034 New library features
1035 --------------------
1036 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1038 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1039 notmuch_query_t object.
1043 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1045 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1046 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1047 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1048 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1049 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1050 notmuch customize interface.
1052 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1054 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1055 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1056 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1057 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1059 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1061 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1062 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1063 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1064 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1066 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1068 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1069 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1070 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1071 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1072 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1073 notmuch customize interface.
1075 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1077 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1078 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1079 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1080 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1081 notmuch customize interface.
1083 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1085 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1086 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1087 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1088 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1091 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1093 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1094 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1095 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1098 New build-system features
1099 -------------------------
1100 Various portability fixes have been applied
1102 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1103 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1104 more portable than ever before.
1106 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1108 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1109 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1110 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1112 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1113 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1114 automatically run ldconfig.
1116 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1117 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1118 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1120 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1121 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1122 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1123 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1125 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1127 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1128 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1129 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1130 used in the resulting Makefile.
1132 New test-suite features
1133 -----------------------
1134 New modularization of test suite.
1136 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1137 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1138 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1139 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1140 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1141 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1142 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1143 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1145 New testing of emacs interface.
1147 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1148 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1149 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1150 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1151 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1152 database via the FCC setting.
1156 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1158 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1159 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1160 persistent error of the form:
1162 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1164 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1165 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1167 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1169 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1170 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1171 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1173 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1175 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1176 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1177 parsing the notmuch results).
1179 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1181 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1183 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1184 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1185 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1189 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1191 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1192 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1193 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1194 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1195 the emacs interface.
1197 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1199 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1200 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1201 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1203 Python-binding fixes
1204 --------------------
1205 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1207 Debian-specific fixes
1208 ---------------------
1209 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1211 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1212 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1213 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1216 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1217 ==========================
1220 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1222 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1223 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1224 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1225 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1227 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1229 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1230 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1231 want notmuch to crash.
1235 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1237 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1238 directory does not exist.
1242 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1244 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1245 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1247 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1248 ========================
1249 New command-line features
1250 -------------------------
1251 User-configurable tags for new messages
1253 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1254 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1255 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1256 to specify this value.
1258 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1260 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1261 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1262 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1264 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1266 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1267 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1269 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1271 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1272 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1273 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1274 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1275 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1278 Indication of author names that match a search
1280 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1281 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1282 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1283 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1284 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1285 messages in the thread are listed first.
1287 New: Python bindings
1288 --------------------
1289 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1290 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1291 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1292 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1294 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1295 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1296 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1299 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1300 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1301 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1303 Emacs interface improvements
1304 ----------------------------
1305 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1307 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1308 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1309 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1310 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1311 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1312 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1313 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1314 but without any of the disadvantages).
1316 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1317 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1318 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1321 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1322 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1323 recommend instead running something like:
1325 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1327 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1328 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1329 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1332 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1334 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1335 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1336 tweaked by the user.
1338 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1339 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1340 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1343 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1344 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1345 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1348 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1350 This support currently relies on an external program,
1351 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1352 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1353 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1354 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1355 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1358 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1359 notmuch) is available via:
1361 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1363 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1364 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1365 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1367 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1369 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1370 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1371 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1372 making this automatic in a future release.
1374 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1376 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1377 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1378 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1379 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1380 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1381 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1384 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1386 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1387 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1388 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1390 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1392 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1393 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1394 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1396 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1397 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1398 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1399 other representation.
1401 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1402 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1405 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1407 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1408 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1409 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1411 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1412 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1413 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1415 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1417 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1418 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1419 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1420 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1421 to display the search result.
1423 More flexible handling of header visibility
1425 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1426 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1427 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1428 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1429 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1430 with the 'h' keybinding.
1432 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1433 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1434 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1436 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1438 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1440 Customizable formatting of search results
1442 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1443 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1444 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1446 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1448 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1450 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1454 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1456 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1457 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1458 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1459 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1464 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1466 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1467 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1469 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1471 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1472 accept are now all accepted.
1476 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1478 Better display of output from failed tests.
1480 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1481 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1483 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1484 ========================
1485 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1486 detailed release notes this time!
1488 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1489 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1491 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1492 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1493 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1494 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1500 Better guessing of From: header.
1502 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1503 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1504 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1505 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1506 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1509 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1511 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1512 guaranteed to match all messages.
1514 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1516 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1517 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1518 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1519 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1520 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1523 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1526 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1527 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1528 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1529 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1533 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1535 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1536 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1537 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1538 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1540 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1542 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1544 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1545 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1546 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1548 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1550 Previously, the user might see:
1552 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1556 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1558 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1559 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1560 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1561 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1563 Emacs client features
1564 ---------------------
1565 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1567 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1568 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1569 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1570 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1571 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1573 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1576 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1577 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1578 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1579 search with the '*' binding.
1581 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1583 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1584 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1587 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1589 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1590 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1591 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1593 Build-system features
1594 ---------------------
1595 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1597 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1599 We include actual support for:
1601 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1603 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1605 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1606 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1608 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1609 separate "make install-emacs".
1611 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1613 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1614 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1615 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1617 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1620 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1621 ========================
1622 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1624 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1625 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1627 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1628 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1629 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1630 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1631 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1632 tags from messages in a thread.