1 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
17 for a reply message and full information about the original message
18 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
19 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
21 Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
22 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
23 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
24 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
28 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
29 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
31 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
32 tag in your query, for example:
34 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
36 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
37 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
39 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
40 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
42 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
44 Raw show format changes
46 The output of show --format=raw has changed for multipart and
47 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
48 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
49 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
50 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
51 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
52 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
53 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
58 Reply improvement using the JSON format
60 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
61 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
62 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
63 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
66 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
67 -----------------------------
69 The new contrib/ tool "notmuch-mutt" provides Notmuch integration for
70 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
71 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
72 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
73 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
81 The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
82 notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
84 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
85 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
86 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
88 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
89 =========================
91 Command-Line Interface
92 ----------------------
96 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
97 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
98 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
99 --reply-to=(all|sender).
101 Mail store folder/file ignore
103 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
104 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
105 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
107 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
108 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
110 Unified help and manual pages
112 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
113 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
116 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
118 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
119 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
127 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
128 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
129 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
130 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
132 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
134 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
135 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
137 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
140 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
141 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
142 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
144 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
146 should be changed to:
148 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
150 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
152 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
153 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
155 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
157 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
158 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
159 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
160 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
161 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
162 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
166 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
167 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
168 of Mailing List Archives.
170 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
172 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
173 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
176 Show view archiving key binding changes
178 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
179 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
180 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
181 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
182 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
185 Support text/calendar MIME type
187 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
190 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
192 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
193 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
194 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
195 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
197 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
199 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
200 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
201 messages blue by default in the search view.
205 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
206 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
213 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
216 Python bindings changes
217 -----------------------
219 Python 3.2 compatibility
221 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
223 Added missing unicode conversions
225 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
226 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
227 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
232 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
234 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
235 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
236 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
237 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
238 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
240 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
241 ===========================
246 Fix error handling in python bindings.
248 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
249 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
250 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
251 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
253 Quote MML tags in replies
255 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
256 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
257 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
258 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
259 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
260 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
261 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
262 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
264 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
265 =========================
267 Command-Line Interface
268 ----------------------
272 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
273 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
274 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
275 importing new messages into the database.
277 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
279 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
280 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
281 sometimes. This is now fixed.
286 Automatic tag query optimization
288 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
289 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
290 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
292 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
294 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
295 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
296 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
301 Reduction of memory leaks
303 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
304 and fixed in this release.
311 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
312 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
313 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
316 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
318 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
319 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
320 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
323 Improvements in saved search management
325 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
326 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
327 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
329 Hooks for notmuch-hello
331 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
332 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
333 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
335 New face for crypto parts headers
337 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
338 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
339 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
342 Use space as default thousands separator
344 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
345 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
346 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
348 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
349 buttonized id: links.
351 New function notmuch-show-advance
353 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
354 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
355 be bound to SPC with:
357 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
359 Various performance improvements.
364 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
365 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
368 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
369 ===========================
374 Fix crash in python bindings.
376 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
377 for some, but not all users.
379 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
380 ===========================
387 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
388 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
391 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
392 =========================
394 New build and testing features
395 ------------------------------
397 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
398 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
399 prerequisites is improved.
401 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
403 New command-line features
404 -------------------------
406 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
408 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
409 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
412 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
414 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
415 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
416 favour of using stdout.
418 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
420 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
421 the number of results shown.
423 Add "notmuch count --output" option
425 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
426 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
428 New emacs UI features
429 ---------------------
431 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
433 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
434 starting with "tag:".
436 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
438 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
439 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
441 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
443 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
445 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
447 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
448 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
453 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
455 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
457 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
458 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
459 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
460 requires a database rebuild:
462 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
463 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
465 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
467 New collection of add-on tools
468 ------------------------------
470 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
471 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
472 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
475 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
477 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
478 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
479 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
481 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
482 ========================
484 New, general features
485 ---------------------
487 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
489 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
490 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
491 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
492 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
493 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
500 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
501 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
503 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
507 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
508 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
509 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
512 Python bindings changes
513 -----------------------
515 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
517 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
518 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
519 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
520 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
521 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
522 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
524 Ruby bindings changes
525 ---------------------
527 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
528 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
529 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
530 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
535 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
537 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
538 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
540 Reply formatting cleanup
541 ------------------------
543 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
544 MIME parts are being suppressed.
546 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
547 ========================
549 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
551 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
552 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
553 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
554 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
557 Improved Build system portability
559 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
560 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
561 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
563 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
565 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
567 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
569 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
570 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
571 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
573 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
574 ========================
576 Vim interface improvements
577 --------------------------
579 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
581 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
582 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
583 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
584 * fix from list reformatting in search view
585 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
587 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
589 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
590 * fix compose temp file name
592 Python Bindings changes
593 -----------------------
595 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
597 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
598 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
600 Build-System improvements
601 ------------------------
603 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
605 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
608 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
609 ==========================
614 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
616 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
617 people running gcc 4.4.5.
619 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
620 =======================
621 New, general features
622 ---------------------
623 Folder-based searching
625 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
626 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
627 storage). The syntax is as follows:
631 For example, one might use things such as:
637 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
638 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
640 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
641 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
642 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
643 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
645 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
646 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
647 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
650 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
651 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
653 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
657 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
658 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
659 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
661 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
663 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
664 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
666 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
667 notmuch will receive these tags.
669 New command-line features
670 -------------------------
671 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
673 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
674 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
676 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
678 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
679 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
680 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
682 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
684 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
685 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
686 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
687 which parts a signature part applies).
689 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
691 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
692 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
693 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
694 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
695 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
698 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
700 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
701 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
702 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
703 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
704 by translating it internally to the new call.
706 Performance improvements
707 ------------------------
708 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
710 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
711 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
712 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
714 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
715 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
717 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
719 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
720 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
721 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
723 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
724 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
725 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
726 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
728 Faster initial indexing
730 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
731 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
732 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
734 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
736 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
737 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
738 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
739 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
741 New emacs-interface features
742 ----------------------------
744 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
746 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
747 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
748 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
749 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
750 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
751 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
753 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
755 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
756 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
757 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
758 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
760 User-selectable From address
762 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
763 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
764 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
765 will prompt for the from address to use.
767 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
768 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
769 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
771 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
772 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
773 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
776 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
778 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
779 its parent, the subject is not shown.
781 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
783 When a message contains a line looking something like:
785 ----- Original Message -----
787 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
788 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
789 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
790 citations work much like conventional citations.
792 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
794 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
795 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
796 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
797 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
798 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
800 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
801 Notmuch After Tag Hook
803 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
805 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
806 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
807 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
809 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
811 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
812 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
813 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
814 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
815 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
817 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
819 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
822 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
824 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
826 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
827 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
829 Vim interface improvements
830 --------------------------
831 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
833 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
834 * Implementing archive in show view
835 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
836 * Add delete commands
839 Bindings improvements
840 ---------------------
841 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
843 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
844 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
846 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
847 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
850 - Message().get_filenames(),
851 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
852 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
854 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
855 These allow, for example:
858 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
860 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
865 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
866 Use len(list(Messages())) or
867 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
869 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
871 New build-system features
872 -------------------------
873 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
875 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
876 the configure script from some other directory:
883 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
885 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
886 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
887 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
888 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
889 manual invocation of configure.
891 New test-suite feature
892 ----------------------
893 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
895 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
896 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
897 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
898 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
899 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
902 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
904 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
905 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
906 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
907 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
908 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
909 are updated to take advantage of this.
911 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
913 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
914 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
915 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
916 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
921 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
923 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
924 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
925 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
927 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
929 This fixed a bug where a search for:
931 to:user@elsewhere.com
933 would incorrectly match a message sent:
935 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
937 Fix --output=json when search has no results
939 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
940 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
941 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
944 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
945 from the Received headers in some cases.
947 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
948 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
950 Cleaned up several memory leaks
952 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
954 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
956 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
957 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
958 interface and were never intended to be exported.
960 Emacs-interface bug fixes
961 -------------------------
962 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
964 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
965 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
966 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
968 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
970 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
971 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
972 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
975 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
977 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
978 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
979 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
980 fixed to avoid this bug.
982 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
984 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
985 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
987 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
988 ========================
989 New, general features
990 ---------------------
991 Maildir-flag synchronization
993 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
994 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1003 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1005 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1006 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1007 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1008 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1010 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1011 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1012 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1013 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
1016 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1018 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1019 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1020 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1022 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1023 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1025 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1026 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1028 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1029 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1030 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1032 New library features
1033 --------------------
1034 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1036 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1037 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1038 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1039 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1041 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1042 message with the new function:
1044 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1046 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1047 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1048 all available filenames for a given message.
1050 New command-line features
1051 -------------------------
1052 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1054 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1055 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1056 access to the mail store itself.
1058 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1059 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1060 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1061 name of a script containing:
1063 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1065 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1066 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1071 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1073 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1075 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1077 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1078 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1079 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1080 now produces nothing).
1082 Emacs interface improvements
1083 ----------------------------
1084 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1086 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1088 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1090 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1092 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1094 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1096 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1097 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1098 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1099 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1100 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1101 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1102 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1104 Vim interface improvements
1105 --------------------------
1106 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1108 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1109 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1114 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1116 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1117 ========================
1118 New command-line features
1119 -------------------------
1120 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1122 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1123 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1124 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1126 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1127 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1128 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1129 scripts. For example:
1131 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1132 <operations-on> "$file"
1135 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1137 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1138 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1139 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1140 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1141 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1142 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1144 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1146 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1147 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1148 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1149 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1151 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1153 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1154 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1155 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1156 default rather than Bcc.
1158 New library features
1159 --------------------
1160 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1162 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1163 notmuch_query_t object.
1167 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1169 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1170 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1171 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1172 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1173 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1174 notmuch customize interface.
1176 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1178 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1179 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1180 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1181 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1183 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1185 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1186 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1187 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1188 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1190 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1192 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1193 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1194 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1195 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1196 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1197 notmuch customize interface.
1199 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1201 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1202 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1203 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1204 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1205 notmuch customize interface.
1207 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1209 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1210 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1211 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1212 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1215 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1217 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1218 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1219 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1222 New build-system features
1223 -------------------------
1224 Various portability fixes have been applied
1226 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1227 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1228 more portable than ever before.
1230 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1232 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1233 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1234 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1236 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1237 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1238 automatically run ldconfig.
1240 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1241 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1242 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1244 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1245 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1246 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1247 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1249 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1251 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1252 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1253 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1254 used in the resulting Makefile.
1256 New test-suite features
1257 -----------------------
1258 New modularization of test suite.
1260 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1261 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1262 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1263 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1264 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1265 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1266 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1267 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1269 New testing of emacs interface.
1271 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1272 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1273 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1274 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1275 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1276 database via the FCC setting.
1280 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1282 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1283 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1284 persistent error of the form:
1286 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1288 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1289 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1291 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1293 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1294 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1295 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1297 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1299 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1300 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1301 parsing the notmuch results).
1303 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1305 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1307 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1308 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1309 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1313 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1315 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1316 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1317 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1318 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1319 the emacs interface.
1321 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1323 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1324 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1325 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1327 Python-binding fixes
1328 --------------------
1329 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1331 Debian-specific fixes
1332 ---------------------
1333 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1335 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1336 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1337 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1340 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1341 ==========================
1344 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1346 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1347 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1348 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1349 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1351 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1353 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1354 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1355 want notmuch to crash.
1359 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1361 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1362 directory does not exist.
1366 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1368 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1369 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1371 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1372 ========================
1373 New command-line features
1374 -------------------------
1375 User-configurable tags for new messages
1377 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1378 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1379 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1380 to specify this value.
1382 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1384 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1385 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1386 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1388 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1390 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1391 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1393 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1395 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1396 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1397 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1398 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1399 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1402 Indication of author names that match a search
1404 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1405 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1406 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1407 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1408 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1409 messages in the thread are listed first.
1411 New: Python bindings
1412 --------------------
1413 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1414 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1415 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1416 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1418 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1419 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1420 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1423 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1424 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1425 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1427 Emacs interface improvements
1428 ----------------------------
1429 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1431 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1432 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1433 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1434 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1435 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1436 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1437 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1438 but without any of the disadvantages).
1440 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1441 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1442 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1445 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1446 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1447 recommend instead running something like:
1449 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1451 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1452 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1453 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1456 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1458 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1459 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1460 tweaked by the user.
1462 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1463 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1464 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1467 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1468 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1469 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1472 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1474 This support currently relies on an external program,
1475 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1476 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1477 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1478 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1479 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1482 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1483 notmuch) is available via:
1485 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1487 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1488 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1489 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1491 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1493 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1494 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1495 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1496 making this automatic in a future release.
1498 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1500 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1501 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1502 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1503 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1504 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1505 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1508 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1510 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1511 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1512 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1514 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1516 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1517 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1518 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1520 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1521 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1522 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1523 other representation.
1525 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1526 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1529 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1531 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1532 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1533 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1535 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1536 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1537 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1539 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1541 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1542 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1543 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1544 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1545 to display the search result.
1547 More flexible handling of header visibility
1549 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1550 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1551 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1552 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1553 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1554 with the 'h' keybinding.
1556 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1557 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1558 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1560 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1562 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1564 Customizable formatting of search results
1566 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1567 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1568 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1570 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1572 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1574 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1578 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1580 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1581 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1582 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1583 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1588 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1590 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1591 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1593 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1595 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1596 accept are now all accepted.
1600 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1602 Better display of output from failed tests.
1604 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1605 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1607 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1608 ========================
1609 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1610 detailed release notes this time!
1612 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1613 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1615 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1616 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1617 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1618 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1624 Better guessing of From: header.
1626 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1627 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1628 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1629 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1630 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1633 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1635 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1636 guaranteed to match all messages.
1638 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1640 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1641 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1642 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1643 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1644 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1647 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1650 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1651 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1652 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1653 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1657 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1659 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1660 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1661 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1662 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1664 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1666 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1668 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1669 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1670 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1672 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1674 Previously, the user might see:
1676 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1680 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1682 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1683 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1684 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1685 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1687 Emacs client features
1688 ---------------------
1689 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1691 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1692 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1693 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1694 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1695 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1697 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1700 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1701 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1702 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1703 search with the '*' binding.
1705 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1707 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1708 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1711 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1713 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1714 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1715 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1717 Build-system features
1718 ---------------------
1719 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1721 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1723 We include actual support for:
1725 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1727 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1729 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1730 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1732 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1733 separate "make install-emacs".
1735 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1737 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1738 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1739 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1741 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1744 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1745 ========================
1746 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1748 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1749 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1751 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1752 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1753 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1754 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1755 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1756 tags from messages in a thread.