1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format.
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
18 Changed format for saved searches.
20 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
21 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
22 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
23 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
26 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
27 through customize should `just work', with the additional options
28 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
29 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
31 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
32 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
33 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
35 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them.
37 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
38 newlines before calling notmuch count.
40 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
41 =========================
43 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
44 ---------------------------------------
46 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
47 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
48 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
49 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
50 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
51 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
52 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
56 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
57 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
59 Command-Line Interface
60 ----------------------
62 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
64 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
65 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
66 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
67 print for each message.
69 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
70 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
71 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
72 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
74 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
76 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
77 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
78 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
80 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
82 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
83 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
84 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
85 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
87 `notmuch compact` command
89 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
90 functionality through a more convenient interface than
91 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
92 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
93 move the compacted database into place.
98 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
100 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
101 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
102 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
103 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
104 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
105 and multiple threads.
109 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
111 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
112 search, show and tree mode itself)
114 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
117 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
118 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
120 Customising `notmuch-tree`
122 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
123 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
124 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
125 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
126 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
127 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
128 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
130 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
132 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
133 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
134 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
135 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
136 thread when the search was performed.
138 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
140 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
141 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
142 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
144 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
146 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
147 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
150 Built-in help improvements
152 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
153 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
154 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
156 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
158 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
159 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
160 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
162 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
164 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
165 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
167 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
169 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
170 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
171 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
172 to move some of them to the common keymap.
174 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
176 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
177 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
178 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
179 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
181 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
183 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
184 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
185 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
187 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
189 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
190 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
191 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
193 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
195 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
196 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
197 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
198 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
199 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
201 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
203 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
204 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
205 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
206 the body part of the message.
211 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
212 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
213 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
215 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
216 =========================
218 Command-Line Interface
219 ----------------------
221 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
223 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
224 folder and notmuch index.
226 `notmuch count --batch` option
228 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
229 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
231 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
233 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
234 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
235 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
238 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
240 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
241 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
242 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
243 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
244 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
247 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
249 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
250 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
252 Top level option to specify configuration file
254 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
255 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
257 Bash command-line completion
259 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
260 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
261 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
262 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
263 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
264 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
265 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
266 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
267 bash-completion package.
269 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
274 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
276 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
277 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
278 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
279 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
280 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
281 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
282 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
283 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
285 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
287 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
288 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
289 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
291 Key bindings for next/previous thread
293 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
294 previous thread in the search results.
296 Better handling of errors in search buffers
298 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
299 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
301 Faster search and show
303 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
304 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
305 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
306 threads should show faster.
310 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
311 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
312 in question was now removed from this release.
317 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
318 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
323 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
325 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
326 ===========================
331 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
333 Internal test framework changes
334 -------------------------------
336 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
339 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
340 ===========================
342 Internal test framework changes
343 -------------------------------
345 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
346 build failures in non-interactive environments.
348 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
349 =========================
354 Date range search support
356 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
357 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
358 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
359 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
360 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
363 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
365 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
366 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
367 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
368 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
369 but may be removed in a future release.
371 Command-Line Interface
372 ----------------------
374 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
376 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
377 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
379 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
381 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
382 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
383 officially deprecated.
385 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
387 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
388 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
389 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
391 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
393 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
394 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
397 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
398 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
401 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
403 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
404 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
405 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
407 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
409 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
410 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
411 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
413 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
415 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
416 output separated by null characters rather than newline
417 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
418 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
423 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
425 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
426 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
427 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
428 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
430 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
432 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
433 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
434 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
435 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
436 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
437 the behavior of this, see
438 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
439 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
441 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
442 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
443 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
445 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
447 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
448 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
451 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
453 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
454 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
455 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
456 simply displayed in place of the message.
458 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
460 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
461 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
463 Improved text/calendar content handling
465 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
466 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
467 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
468 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
470 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
472 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
473 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
474 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
475 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
477 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
479 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
480 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
481 for HTML email containing images.
483 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
485 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
487 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
489 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
492 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
494 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
495 the point where it was.
497 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
499 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
500 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
501 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
502 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
503 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
505 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
507 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
508 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
509 thread instead of the message id.
511 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
512 -----------------------------
514 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
515 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
516 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
517 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
518 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
519 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
520 further details and installation.
525 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
527 Internal test framework changes
528 -------------------------------
530 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
532 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
533 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
534 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
535 can result in buggy behavior.
537 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
538 =========================
543 Maildir tag synchronization
545 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
546 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
547 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
548 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
549 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
550 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
553 Command-Line Interface
554 ----------------------
556 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
557 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
558 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
559 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
560 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
566 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
568 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
570 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
571 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
572 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
574 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
576 It is now possible to embed newlines in
577 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
580 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
582 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
583 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
584 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
585 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
586 inside the result or message.
588 Search now uses the JSON format internally
590 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
591 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
593 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
594 user-specified formatting
596 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
597 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
598 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
599 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
600 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
602 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
603 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
605 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
606 ===========================
611 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
612 compilation error for this contrib package.
614 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
615 ===========================
620 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
622 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
623 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
624 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
625 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
627 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
628 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
631 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
632 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
633 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
634 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
637 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
639 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
642 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
643 =========================
645 Command-Line Interface
646 ----------------------
650 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
651 for a reply message and full information about the original message
652 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
653 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
655 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
656 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
657 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
658 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
662 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
663 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
665 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
666 tag in your query, for example:
668 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
670 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
671 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
673 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
674 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
676 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
678 Raw show format changes
680 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
681 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
682 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
683 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
684 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
685 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
686 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
687 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
689 Listing configuration items
691 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
697 Changes to tagging interface
699 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
700 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
701 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
702 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
703 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
704 for more information.
706 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
707 may need to update in custom configurations.
709 Reply improvement using the JSON format
711 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
712 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
713 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
714 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
717 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
718 -----------------------------
720 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
721 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
722 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
723 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
724 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
725 contrib/ from now on.
730 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
731 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
733 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
734 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
736 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
737 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
738 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
740 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
741 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
743 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
744 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
745 returning the new database object or directory object.
752 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
753 compatible with go 1.
755 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
756 =========================
758 Command-Line Interface
759 ----------------------
763 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
764 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
765 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
766 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
768 Mail store folder/file ignore
770 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
771 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
772 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
774 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
775 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
777 Unified help and manual pages
779 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
780 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
783 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
785 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
786 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
794 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
795 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
796 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
797 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
799 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
801 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
802 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
804 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
807 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
808 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
809 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
811 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
813 should be changed to:
815 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
817 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
819 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
820 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
822 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
824 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
825 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
826 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
827 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
828 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
829 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
833 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
834 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
835 of Mailing List Archives.
837 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
839 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
840 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
843 Show view archiving key binding changes
845 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
846 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
847 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
848 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
849 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
852 Support text/calendar MIME type
854 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
857 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
859 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
860 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
861 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
862 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
864 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
866 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
867 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
868 messages blue by default in the search view.
872 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
873 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
880 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
883 Python bindings changes
884 -----------------------
886 Python 3.2 compatibility
888 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
890 Added missing unicode conversions
892 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
893 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
894 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
899 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
901 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
902 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
903 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
904 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
905 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
907 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
908 ===========================
913 Fix error handling in python bindings
915 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
916 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
917 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
918 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
920 Quote MML tags in replies
922 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
923 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
924 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
925 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
926 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
927 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
928 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
929 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
931 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
932 =========================
934 Command-Line Interface
935 ----------------------
939 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
940 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
941 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
942 importing new messages into the database.
944 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
946 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
947 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
948 sometimes. This is now fixed.
953 Automatic tag query optimization
955 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
956 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
957 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
959 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
961 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
962 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
963 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
968 Reduction of memory leaks
970 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
971 and fixed in this release.
978 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
979 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
980 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
983 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
985 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
986 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
987 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
990 Improvements in saved search management
992 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
993 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
994 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
996 Hooks for notmuch-hello
998 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
999 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1000 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1002 New face for crypto parts headers
1004 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1005 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1006 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1009 Use space as default thousands separator
1011 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1012 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1013 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1015 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1016 buttonized id: links
1018 New function notmuch-show-advance
1020 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1021 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1022 be bound to SPC with:
1024 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1026 Various performance improvements
1031 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1032 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1035 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1036 ===========================
1041 Fix crash in python bindings
1043 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1044 for some, but not all users.
1046 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1047 ===========================
1052 Fix `--help` argument
1054 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1055 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1056 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1058 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1059 =========================
1061 New build and testing features
1062 ------------------------------
1064 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1065 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1066 prerequisites is improved.
1068 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1070 New command-line features
1071 -------------------------
1073 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1075 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1076 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1079 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1081 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1082 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1083 favour of using stdout.
1085 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1087 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1088 limit the number of results shown.
1090 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1092 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1093 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1096 New emacs UI features
1097 ---------------------
1099 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1101 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1102 starting with "tag:".
1104 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1106 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1107 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1109 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1111 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1113 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1115 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1116 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1121 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1123 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1125 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1126 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1127 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1128 requires a database rebuild:
1130 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1131 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1133 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1135 New collection of add-on tools
1136 ------------------------------
1138 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1139 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1140 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1143 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1145 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1146 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1147 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1149 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1150 ========================
1152 New, general features
1153 ---------------------
1155 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1157 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1158 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1159 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1160 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1161 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1168 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1169 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1171 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1175 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1176 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1177 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1180 Python bindings changes
1181 -----------------------
1183 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1185 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1186 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1187 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1188 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1189 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1190 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1192 Ruby bindings changes
1193 ---------------------
1195 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1196 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1197 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1198 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1203 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1205 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1206 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1208 Reply formatting cleanup
1209 ------------------------
1211 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1212 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1214 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1215 ========================
1217 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1219 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1220 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1221 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1222 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1225 Improved Build system portability
1227 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1228 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1229 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1231 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1233 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1235 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1237 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1238 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1239 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1241 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1242 ========================
1244 Vim interface improvements
1245 --------------------------
1247 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1249 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1250 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1251 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1252 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1253 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1255 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1257 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1258 * fix compose temp file name
1260 Python Bindings changes
1261 -----------------------
1263 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1265 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1266 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1268 Build-System improvements
1269 -------------------------
1271 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1273 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1276 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1277 ==========================
1282 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1284 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1285 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1287 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1288 =======================
1290 New, general features
1291 ---------------------
1293 Folder-based searching
1295 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1296 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1297 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1301 For example, one might use things such as:
1307 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1308 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1310 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1311 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1312 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1313 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1315 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1316 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1317 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1320 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1321 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1323 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1325 Support for PGP/MIME
1327 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1328 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1329 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1331 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1333 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1334 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1336 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1337 notmuch will receive these tags.
1339 New command-line features
1340 -------------------------
1342 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1344 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1345 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1347 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1349 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1350 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1351 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1353 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1355 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1356 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1357 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1358 which parts a signature part applies).
1360 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1362 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1363 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1364 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1365 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1366 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1369 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1371 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1372 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1373 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1374 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1375 by translating it internally to the new call.
1377 Performance improvements
1378 ------------------------
1380 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1382 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1383 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1384 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1386 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1387 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1389 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1391 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1392 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1393 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1395 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1396 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1397 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1398 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1400 Faster initial indexing
1402 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1403 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1404 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1406 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1408 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1409 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1410 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1411 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1413 New emacs-interface features
1414 ----------------------------
1416 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1418 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1419 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1420 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1421 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1422 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1423 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1425 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1427 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1428 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1429 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1430 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1432 User-selectable From address
1434 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1435 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1436 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1437 will prompt for the from address to use.
1439 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1440 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1441 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1443 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1444 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1445 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1448 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1450 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1451 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1453 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1455 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1457 ----- Original Message -----
1459 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1460 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1461 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1462 citations work much like conventional citations.
1464 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1466 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1467 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1468 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1469 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1470 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1472 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1473 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1475 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1477 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1478 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1479 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1481 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1483 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1484 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1485 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1486 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1487 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1489 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1491 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1494 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1496 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1498 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1500 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1503 Vim interface improvements
1504 --------------------------
1506 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1508 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1509 * Implementing archive in show view
1510 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1511 * Add delete commands
1514 Bindings improvements
1515 ---------------------
1517 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1519 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1520 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1522 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1524 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1528 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1529 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1530 `list(Messages)` works now
1531 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1533 These allow, for example:
1535 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1537 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1539 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1545 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1547 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1550 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1552 New build-system features
1553 -------------------------
1555 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1557 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1558 the configure script from some other directory:
1565 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1567 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1568 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1569 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1570 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1571 manual invocation of configure.
1573 New test-suite feature
1574 ----------------------
1576 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1578 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1579 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1580 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1581 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1582 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1585 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1587 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1588 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1589 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1590 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1591 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1592 are updated to take advantage of this.
1594 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1596 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1597 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1598 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1599 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1605 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1607 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1608 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1609 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1611 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1613 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1615 to:user@elsewhere.com
1617 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1619 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1621 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1623 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1624 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1625 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1628 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1629 from the Received headers in some cases
1631 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1632 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1634 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1636 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1638 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1640 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1641 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1642 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1644 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1645 -------------------------
1647 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1649 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1650 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1651 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1653 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1655 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1656 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1657 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1660 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1662 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1663 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1664 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1665 fixed to avoid this bug.
1667 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1669 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1670 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1672 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1673 ========================
1675 New, general features
1676 ---------------------
1678 Maildir-flag synchronization
1680 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1681 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1690 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1692 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1693 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1694 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1695 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1697 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1698 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1699 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1700 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1703 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1705 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1706 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1707 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1709 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1710 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1712 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1713 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1715 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1716 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1717 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1719 New library features
1720 --------------------
1722 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1724 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1725 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1726 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1727 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1729 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1730 message with the new function:
1732 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1734 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1735 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1736 over all available filenames for a given message.
1738 New command-line features
1739 -------------------------
1741 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1743 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1744 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1745 access to the mail store itself.
1747 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1748 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1749 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1750 name of a script containing:
1752 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1754 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1755 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1761 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1763 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1765 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1767 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1768 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1769 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1770 now produces nothing).
1772 Emacs interface improvements
1773 ----------------------------
1775 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1777 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1779 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1781 Display current thread subject in a header line
1783 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1785 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1787 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1788 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1789 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1790 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1791 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1792 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1793 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1795 Vim interface improvements
1796 --------------------------
1798 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1800 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1801 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1807 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1809 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1810 ========================
1812 New command-line features
1813 -------------------------
1815 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1817 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1818 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1819 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1821 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1822 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1823 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1824 scripts. For example:
1826 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1827 <operations-on> "$file"
1830 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1832 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1833 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1834 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1835 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1836 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1837 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1839 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1841 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1842 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1843 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1844 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1846 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1848 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1849 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1850 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1851 default rather than Bcc.
1853 New library features
1854 --------------------
1856 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1858 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1859 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1864 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1866 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1867 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1868 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1869 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1870 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1871 notmuch customize interface.
1873 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1875 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1876 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1877 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1878 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1880 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1882 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1883 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1884 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1885 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1887 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1889 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1890 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1891 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1892 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1893 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1894 notmuch customize interface.
1896 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1898 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1899 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1900 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1901 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1902 notmuch customize interface.
1904 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1906 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1907 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1908 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1909 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1912 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1914 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1915 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1916 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1919 New build-system features
1920 -------------------------
1922 Various portability fixes have been applied
1924 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1925 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1926 more portable than ever before.
1928 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1930 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1931 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1932 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1934 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1935 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1936 automatically run ldconfig.
1938 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1939 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1940 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1942 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1943 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1944 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1945 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1947 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1949 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1950 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1951 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1952 used in the resulting Makefile.
1954 New test-suite features
1955 -----------------------
1957 New modularization of test suite
1959 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1960 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1961 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1962 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1963 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1964 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1965 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1966 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1968 New testing of emacs interface
1970 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1971 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1972 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1973 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1974 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1975 database via the FCC setting.
1980 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1982 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1983 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1984 persistent error of the form:
1986 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1988 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1989 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1991 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1993 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1994 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1995 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1997 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1999 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2000 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2001 parsing the notmuch results).
2003 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2005 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2008 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2009 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2010 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2015 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2017 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2018 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2019 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2020 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2021 the emacs interface.
2023 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2025 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2026 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2027 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2029 Python-binding fixes
2030 --------------------
2032 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2034 Debian-specific fixes
2035 ---------------------
2037 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2039 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2040 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2041 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2044 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2045 ==========================
2050 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2052 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2053 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2054 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2055 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2057 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2059 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2060 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2061 want notmuch to crash.
2066 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2068 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2069 directory does not exist
2074 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2076 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2077 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2079 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2080 ========================
2082 New command-line features
2083 -------------------------
2085 User-configurable tags for new messages
2087 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2088 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2089 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2090 to specify this value.
2092 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2094 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2095 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2096 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2098 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2100 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2101 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2103 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2105 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2106 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2107 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2108 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2109 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2112 Indication of author names that match a search
2114 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2115 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2116 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2117 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2118 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2119 messages in the thread are listed first.
2121 New: Python bindings
2122 --------------------
2124 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2125 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2126 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2127 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2129 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2130 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2131 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2134 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2135 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2136 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2138 Emacs interface improvements
2139 ----------------------------
2141 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2143 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2144 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2145 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2146 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2147 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2148 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2149 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2150 but without any of the disadvantages).
2152 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2153 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2154 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2157 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2158 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2159 instead running something like:
2161 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2163 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2164 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2165 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2168 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2170 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2171 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2172 tweaked by the user.
2174 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2175 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2176 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2179 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2180 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2181 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2184 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2186 This support currently relies on an external program,
2187 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2188 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2189 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2190 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2191 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2194 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2195 notmuch) is available via:
2197 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2199 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2200 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2201 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2203 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2205 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2206 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2207 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2208 making this automatic in a future release.
2210 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2212 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2213 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2214 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2215 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2216 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2217 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2220 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2222 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2223 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2224 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2226 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2228 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2229 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2230 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2232 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2233 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2234 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2235 other representation.
2237 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2238 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2241 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2243 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2244 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2245 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2247 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2248 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2249 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2251 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2253 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2254 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2255 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2256 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2257 to display the search result.
2259 More flexible handling of header visibility
2261 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2262 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2263 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2264 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2265 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2266 with the 'h' keybinding.
2268 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2269 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2270 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2272 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2274 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2276 Customizable formatting of search results
2278 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2279 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2280 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2282 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2284 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2286 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2291 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2293 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2294 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2295 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2296 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2302 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2304 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2305 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2307 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2309 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2310 accept are now all accepted.
2315 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2317 Better display of output from failed tests
2319 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2320 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2322 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2323 ========================
2325 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2326 detailed release notes this time!
2328 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2329 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2331 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2332 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2333 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2334 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2341 Better guessing of From: header
2343 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2344 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2345 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2346 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2347 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2350 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2352 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2353 guaranteed to match all messages.
2355 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2357 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2358 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2359 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2360 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2361 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2364 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2367 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2368 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2369 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2370 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2375 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2377 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2378 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2379 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2380 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2382 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2384 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2386 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2387 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2388 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2390 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2392 Previously, the user might see:
2394 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2398 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2400 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2401 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2402 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2403 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2405 Emacs client features
2406 ---------------------
2408 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2410 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2411 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2412 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2413 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2414 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2416 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2419 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2420 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2421 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2422 search with the '*' binding.
2424 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2426 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2427 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2430 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2432 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2433 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2434 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2436 Build-system features
2437 ---------------------
2439 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2441 Add support to configure for many standard options
2443 We include actual support for:
2445 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2447 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2449 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2450 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2452 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2453 separate "make install-emacs"
2455 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2457 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2458 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2459 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2461 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2464 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2465 ========================
2467 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2469 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2470 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2472 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2473 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2474 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2475 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2476 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2477 tags from messages in a thread.
2484 indent-tabs-mode: nil