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
76 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
77 =========================
79 Command-Line Interface
80 ----------------------
84 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
85 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
86 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
87 --reply-to=(all|sender).
89 Mail store folder/file ignore
91 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
92 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
93 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
95 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
96 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
98 Unified help and manual pages
100 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
101 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
104 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
106 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
107 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
115 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
116 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
117 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
118 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
120 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
122 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
123 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
125 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
128 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
129 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
130 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
132 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
134 should be changed to:
136 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
138 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
140 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
141 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
143 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
145 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
146 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
147 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
148 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
149 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
150 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
154 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
155 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
156 of Mailing List Archives.
158 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
160 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
161 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
164 Show view archiving key binding changes
166 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
167 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
168 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
169 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
170 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
173 Support text/calendar MIME type
175 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
178 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
180 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
181 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
182 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
183 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
185 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
187 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
188 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
189 messages blue by default in the search view.
193 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
194 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
201 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
204 Python bindings changes
205 -----------------------
207 Python 3.2 compatibility
209 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
211 Added missing unicode conversions
213 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
214 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
215 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
220 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
222 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
223 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
224 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
225 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
226 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
228 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
229 ===========================
234 Fix error handling in python bindings.
236 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
237 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
238 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
239 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
241 Quote MML tags in replies
243 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
244 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
245 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
246 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
247 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
248 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
249 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
250 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
252 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
253 =========================
255 Command-Line Interface
256 ----------------------
260 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
261 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
262 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
263 importing new messages into the database.
265 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
267 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
268 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
269 sometimes. This is now fixed.
274 Automatic tag query optimization
276 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
277 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
278 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
280 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
282 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
283 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
284 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
289 Reduction of memory leaks
291 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
292 and fixed in this release.
299 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
300 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
301 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
304 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
306 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
307 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
308 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
311 Improvements in saved search management
313 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
314 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
315 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
317 Hooks for notmuch-hello
319 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
320 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
321 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
323 New face for crypto parts headers
325 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
326 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
327 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
330 Use space as default thousands separator
332 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
333 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
334 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
336 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
337 buttonized id: links.
339 New function notmuch-show-advance
341 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
342 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
343 be bound to SPC with:
345 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
347 Various performance improvements.
352 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
353 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
356 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
357 ===========================
362 Fix crash in python bindings.
364 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
365 for some, but not all users.
367 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
368 ===========================
375 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
376 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
379 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
380 =========================
382 New build and testing features
383 ------------------------------
385 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
386 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
387 prerequisites is improved.
389 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
391 New command-line features
392 -------------------------
394 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
396 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
397 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
400 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
402 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
403 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
404 favour of using stdout.
406 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
408 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
409 the number of results shown.
411 Add "notmuch count --output" option
413 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
414 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
416 New emacs UI features
417 ---------------------
419 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
421 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
422 starting with "tag:".
424 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
426 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
427 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
429 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
431 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
433 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
435 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
436 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
441 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
443 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
445 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
446 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
447 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
448 requires a database rebuild:
450 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
451 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
453 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
455 New collection of add-on tools
456 ------------------------------
458 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
459 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
460 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
463 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
465 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
466 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
467 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
469 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
470 ========================
472 New, general features
473 ---------------------
475 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
477 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
478 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
479 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
480 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
481 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
488 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
489 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
491 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
495 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
496 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
497 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
500 Python bindings changes
501 -----------------------
503 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
505 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
506 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
507 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
508 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
509 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
510 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
512 Ruby bindings changes
513 ---------------------
515 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
516 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
517 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
518 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
523 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
525 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
526 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
528 Reply formatting cleanup
529 ------------------------
531 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
532 MIME parts are being suppressed.
534 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
535 ========================
537 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
539 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
540 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
541 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
542 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
545 Improved Build system portability
547 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
548 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
549 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
551 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
553 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
555 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
557 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
558 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
559 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
561 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
562 ========================
564 Vim interface improvements
565 --------------------------
567 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
569 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
570 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
571 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
572 * fix from list reformatting in search view
573 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
575 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
577 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
578 * fix compose temp file name
580 Python Bindings changes
581 -----------------------
583 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
585 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
586 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
588 Build-System improvements
589 ------------------------
591 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
593 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
596 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
597 ==========================
602 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
604 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
605 people running gcc 4.4.5.
607 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
608 =======================
609 New, general features
610 ---------------------
611 Folder-based searching
613 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
614 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
615 storage). The syntax is as follows:
619 For example, one might use things such as:
625 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
626 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
628 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
629 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
630 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
631 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
633 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
634 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
635 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
638 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
639 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
641 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
645 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
646 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
647 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
649 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
651 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
652 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
654 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
655 notmuch will receive these tags.
657 New command-line features
658 -------------------------
659 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
661 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
662 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
664 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
666 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
667 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
668 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
670 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
672 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
673 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
674 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
675 which parts a signature part applies).
677 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
679 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
680 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
681 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
682 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
683 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
686 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
688 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
689 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
690 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
691 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
692 by translating it internally to the new call.
694 Performance improvements
695 ------------------------
696 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
698 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
699 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
700 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
702 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
703 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
705 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
707 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
708 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
709 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
711 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
712 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
713 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
714 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
716 Faster initial indexing
718 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
719 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
720 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
722 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
724 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
725 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
726 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
727 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
729 New emacs-interface features
730 ----------------------------
732 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
734 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
735 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
736 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
737 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
738 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
739 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
741 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
743 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
744 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
745 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
746 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
748 User-selectable From address
750 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
751 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
752 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
753 will prompt for the from address to use.
755 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
756 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
757 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
759 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
760 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
761 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
764 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
766 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
767 its parent, the subject is not shown.
769 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
771 When a message contains a line looking something like:
773 ----- Original Message -----
775 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
776 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
777 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
778 citations work much like conventional citations.
780 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
782 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
783 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
784 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
785 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
786 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
788 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
789 Notmuch After Tag Hook
791 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
793 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
794 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
795 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
797 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
799 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
800 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
801 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
802 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
803 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
805 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
807 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
810 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
812 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
814 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
815 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
817 Vim interface improvements
818 --------------------------
819 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
821 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
822 * Implementing archive in show view
823 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
824 * Add delete commands
827 Bindings improvements
828 ---------------------
829 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
831 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
832 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
834 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
835 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
838 - Message().get_filenames(),
839 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
840 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
842 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
843 These allow, for example:
846 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
848 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
853 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
854 Use len(list(Messages())) or
855 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
857 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
859 New build-system features
860 -------------------------
861 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
863 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
864 the configure script from some other directory:
871 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
873 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
874 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
875 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
876 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
877 manual invocation of configure.
879 New test-suite feature
880 ----------------------
881 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
883 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
884 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
885 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
886 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
887 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
890 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
892 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
893 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
894 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
895 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
896 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
897 are updated to take advantage of this.
899 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
901 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
902 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
903 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
904 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
909 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
911 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
912 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
913 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
915 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
917 This fixed a bug where a search for:
919 to:user@elsewhere.com
921 would incorrectly match a message sent:
923 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
925 Fix --output=json when search has no results
927 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
928 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
929 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
932 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
933 from the Received headers in some cases.
935 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
936 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
938 Cleaned up several memory leaks
940 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
942 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
944 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
945 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
946 interface and were never intended to be exported.
948 Emacs-interface bug fixes
949 -------------------------
950 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
952 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
953 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
954 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
956 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
958 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
959 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
960 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
963 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
965 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
966 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
967 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
968 fixed to avoid this bug.
970 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
972 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
973 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
975 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
976 ========================
977 New, general features
978 ---------------------
979 Maildir-flag synchronization
981 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
982 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
991 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
993 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
994 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
995 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
996 renamed with an 'R' flag).
998 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
999 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1000 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1001 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
1004 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1006 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1007 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1008 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1010 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1011 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1013 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1014 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1016 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1017 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1018 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1020 New library features
1021 --------------------
1022 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1024 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1025 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1026 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1027 notmuch_message_get_filename).
1029 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1030 message with the new function:
1032 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1034 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
1035 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
1036 all available filenames for a given message.
1038 New command-line features
1039 -------------------------
1040 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1042 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1043 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1044 access to the mail store itself.
1046 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1047 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1048 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1049 name of a script containing:
1051 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1053 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1054 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1059 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1061 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1063 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1065 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1066 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1067 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1068 now produces nothing).
1070 Emacs interface improvements
1071 ----------------------------
1072 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1074 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1076 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1078 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1080 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1082 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1084 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1085 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1086 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1087 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1088 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1089 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1090 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1092 Vim interface improvements
1093 --------------------------
1094 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1096 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1097 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1102 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1104 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1105 ========================
1106 New command-line features
1107 -------------------------
1108 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1110 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1111 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1112 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1114 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1115 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1116 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1117 scripts. For example:
1119 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1120 <operations-on> "$file"
1123 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1125 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1126 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1127 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1128 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1129 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1130 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1132 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1134 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1135 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1136 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1137 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1139 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1141 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1142 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1143 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1144 default rather than Bcc.
1146 New library features
1147 --------------------
1148 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1150 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1151 notmuch_query_t object.
1155 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1157 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1158 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1159 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1160 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1161 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1162 notmuch customize interface.
1164 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1166 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1167 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1168 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1169 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1171 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1173 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1174 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1175 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1176 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1178 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1180 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1181 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1182 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1183 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1184 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1185 notmuch customize interface.
1187 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1189 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1190 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1191 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1192 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1193 notmuch customize interface.
1195 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1197 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1198 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1199 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1200 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1203 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1205 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1206 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1207 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1210 New build-system features
1211 -------------------------
1212 Various portability fixes have been applied
1214 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1215 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1216 more portable than ever before.
1218 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1220 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1221 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1222 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1224 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1225 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1226 automatically run ldconfig.
1228 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1229 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1230 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1232 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1233 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1234 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1235 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1237 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1239 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1240 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1241 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1242 used in the resulting Makefile.
1244 New test-suite features
1245 -----------------------
1246 New modularization of test suite.
1248 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1249 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1250 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1251 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1252 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1253 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1254 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1255 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1257 New testing of emacs interface.
1259 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1260 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1261 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1262 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1263 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1264 database via the FCC setting.
1268 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1270 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1271 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1272 persistent error of the form:
1274 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1276 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1277 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1279 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1281 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1282 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1283 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1285 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1287 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1288 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1289 parsing the notmuch results).
1291 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1293 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1295 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1296 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1297 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1301 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1303 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1304 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1305 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1306 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1307 the emacs interface.
1309 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1311 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1312 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1313 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1315 Python-binding fixes
1316 --------------------
1317 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1319 Debian-specific fixes
1320 ---------------------
1321 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1323 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1324 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1325 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1328 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1329 ==========================
1332 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1334 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1335 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1336 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1337 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1339 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1341 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1342 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1343 want notmuch to crash.
1347 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1349 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1350 directory does not exist.
1354 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1356 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1357 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1359 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1360 ========================
1361 New command-line features
1362 -------------------------
1363 User-configurable tags for new messages
1365 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1366 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1367 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1368 to specify this value.
1370 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1372 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1373 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1374 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1376 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1378 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1379 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1381 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1383 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1384 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1385 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1386 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1387 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1390 Indication of author names that match a search
1392 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1393 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1394 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1395 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1396 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1397 messages in the thread are listed first.
1399 New: Python bindings
1400 --------------------
1401 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1402 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1403 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1404 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1406 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1407 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1408 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1411 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1412 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1413 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1415 Emacs interface improvements
1416 ----------------------------
1417 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1419 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1420 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1421 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1422 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1423 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1424 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1425 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1426 but without any of the disadvantages).
1428 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1429 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1430 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1433 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1434 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1435 recommend instead running something like:
1437 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1439 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1440 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1441 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1444 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1446 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1447 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1448 tweaked by the user.
1450 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1451 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1452 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1455 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1456 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1457 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1460 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1462 This support currently relies on an external program,
1463 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1464 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1465 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1466 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1467 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1470 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1471 notmuch) is available via:
1473 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1475 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1476 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1477 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1479 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1481 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1482 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1483 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1484 making this automatic in a future release.
1486 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1488 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1489 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1490 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1491 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1492 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1493 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1496 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1498 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1499 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1500 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1502 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1504 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1505 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1506 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1508 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1509 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1510 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1511 other representation.
1513 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1514 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1517 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1519 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1520 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1521 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1523 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1524 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1525 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1527 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1529 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1530 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1531 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1532 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1533 to display the search result.
1535 More flexible handling of header visibility
1537 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1538 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1539 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1540 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1541 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1542 with the 'h' keybinding.
1544 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1545 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1546 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1548 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1550 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1552 Customizable formatting of search results
1554 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1555 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1556 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1558 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1560 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1562 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1566 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1568 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1569 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1570 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1571 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1576 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1578 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1579 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1581 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1583 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1584 accept are now all accepted.
1588 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1590 Better display of output from failed tests.
1592 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1593 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1595 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1596 ========================
1597 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1598 detailed release notes this time!
1600 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1601 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1603 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1604 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1605 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1606 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1612 Better guessing of From: header.
1614 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1615 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1616 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1617 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1618 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1621 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1623 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1624 guaranteed to match all messages.
1626 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1628 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1629 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1630 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1631 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1632 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1635 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1638 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1639 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1640 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1641 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1645 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1647 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1648 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1649 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1650 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1652 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1654 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1656 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1657 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1658 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1660 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1662 Previously, the user might see:
1664 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1668 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1670 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1671 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1672 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1673 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1675 Emacs client features
1676 ---------------------
1677 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1679 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1680 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1681 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1682 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1683 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1685 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1688 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1689 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1690 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1691 search with the '*' binding.
1693 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1695 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1696 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1699 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1701 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1702 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1703 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1705 Build-system features
1706 ---------------------
1707 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1709 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1711 We include actual support for:
1713 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1715 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1717 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1718 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1720 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1721 separate "make install-emacs".
1723 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1725 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1726 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1727 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1729 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1732 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1733 ========================
1734 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1736 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1737 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1739 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1740 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1741 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1742 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1743 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1744 tags from messages in a thread.