1 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2 ===========================
7 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
9 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
10 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
11 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
12 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
14 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
15 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
18 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
19 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
20 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
21 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
24 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
25 =========================
27 Command-Line Interface
28 ----------------------
32 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
33 for a reply message and full information about the original message
34 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
35 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
37 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
38 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
39 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
40 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
44 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
45 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
47 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
48 tag in your query, for example:
50 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
52 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
53 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
55 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
56 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
58 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
60 Raw show format changes
62 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
63 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
64 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
65 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
66 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
67 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
68 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
69 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
71 Listing configuration items
73 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
79 Changes to tagging interface
81 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
82 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
83 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
84 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
85 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
88 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
89 may need to update in custom configurations.
91 Reply improvement using the JSON format
93 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
94 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
95 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
96 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
99 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
100 -----------------------------
102 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
103 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
104 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
105 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
106 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
107 contrib/ from now on.
112 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
113 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
115 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
116 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
118 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
119 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
120 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
122 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
123 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
125 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
126 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
127 returning the new database object or directory object.
134 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
135 compatible with go 1.
137 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
138 =========================
140 Command-Line Interface
141 ----------------------
145 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
146 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
147 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
148 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
150 Mail store folder/file ignore
152 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
153 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
154 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
156 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
157 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
159 Unified help and manual pages
161 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
162 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
165 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
167 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
168 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
176 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
177 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
178 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
179 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
181 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
183 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
184 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
186 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
189 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
190 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
191 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
193 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
195 should be changed to:
197 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
199 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
201 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
202 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
204 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
206 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
207 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
208 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
209 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
210 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
211 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
215 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
216 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
217 of Mailing List Archives.
219 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
221 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
222 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
225 Show view archiving key binding changes
227 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
228 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
229 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
230 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
231 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
234 Support text/calendar MIME type
236 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
239 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
241 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
242 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
243 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
244 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
246 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
248 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
249 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
250 messages blue by default in the search view.
254 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
255 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
262 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
265 Python bindings changes
266 -----------------------
268 Python 3.2 compatibility
270 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
272 Added missing unicode conversions
274 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
275 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
276 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
281 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
283 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
284 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
285 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
286 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
287 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
289 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
290 ===========================
295 Fix error handling in python bindings
297 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
298 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
299 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
300 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
302 Quote MML tags in replies
304 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
305 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
306 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
307 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
308 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
309 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
310 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
311 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
313 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
314 =========================
316 Command-Line Interface
317 ----------------------
321 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
322 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
323 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
324 importing new messages into the database.
326 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
328 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
329 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
330 sometimes. This is now fixed.
335 Automatic tag query optimization
337 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
338 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
339 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
341 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
343 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
344 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
345 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
350 Reduction of memory leaks
352 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
353 and fixed in this release.
360 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
361 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
362 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
365 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
367 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
368 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
369 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
372 Improvements in saved search management
374 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
375 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
376 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
378 Hooks for notmuch-hello
380 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
381 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
382 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
384 New face for crypto parts headers
386 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
387 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
388 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
391 Use space as default thousands separator
393 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
394 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
395 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
397 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
400 New function notmuch-show-advance
402 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
403 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
404 be bound to SPC with:
406 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
408 Various performance improvements
413 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
414 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
417 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
418 ===========================
423 Fix crash in python bindings
425 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
426 for some, but not all users.
428 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
429 ===========================
434 Fix `--help` argument
436 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
437 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
438 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
440 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
441 =========================
443 New build and testing features
444 ------------------------------
446 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
447 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
448 prerequisites is improved.
450 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
452 New command-line features
453 -------------------------
455 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
457 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
458 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
461 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
463 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
464 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
465 favour of using stdout.
467 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
469 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
470 limit the number of results shown.
472 Add `notmuch count --output` option
474 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
475 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
478 New emacs UI features
479 ---------------------
481 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
483 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
484 starting with "tag:".
486 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
488 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
489 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
491 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
493 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
495 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
497 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
498 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
503 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
505 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
507 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
508 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
509 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
510 requires a database rebuild:
512 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
513 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
515 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
517 New collection of add-on tools
518 ------------------------------
520 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
521 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
522 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
525 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
527 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
528 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
529 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
531 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
532 ========================
534 New, general features
535 ---------------------
537 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
539 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
540 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
541 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
542 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
543 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
550 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
551 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
553 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
557 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
558 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
559 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
562 Python bindings changes
563 -----------------------
565 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
567 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
568 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
569 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
570 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
571 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
572 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
574 Ruby bindings changes
575 ---------------------
577 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
578 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
579 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
580 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
585 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
587 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
588 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
590 Reply formatting cleanup
591 ------------------------
593 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
594 MIME parts are being suppressed.
596 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
597 ========================
599 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
601 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
602 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
603 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
604 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
607 Improved Build system portability
609 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
610 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
611 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
613 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
615 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
617 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
619 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
620 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
621 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
623 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
624 ========================
626 Vim interface improvements
627 --------------------------
629 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
631 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
632 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
633 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
634 * fix from list reformatting in search view
635 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
637 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
639 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
640 * fix compose temp file name
642 Python Bindings changes
643 -----------------------
645 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
647 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
648 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
650 Build-System improvements
651 -------------------------
653 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
655 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
658 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
659 ==========================
664 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
666 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
667 people running gcc 4.4.5.
669 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
670 =======================
672 New, general features
673 ---------------------
675 Folder-based searching
677 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
678 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
679 storage). The syntax is as follows:
683 For example, one might use things such as:
689 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
690 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
692 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
693 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
694 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
695 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
697 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
698 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
699 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
702 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
703 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
705 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
709 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
710 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
711 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
713 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
715 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
716 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
718 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
719 notmuch will receive these tags.
721 New command-line features
722 -------------------------
724 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
726 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
727 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
729 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
731 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
732 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
733 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
735 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
737 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
738 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
739 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
740 which parts a signature part applies).
742 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
744 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
745 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
746 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
747 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
748 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
751 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
753 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
754 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
755 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
756 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
757 by translating it internally to the new call.
759 Performance improvements
760 ------------------------
762 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
764 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
765 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
766 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
768 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
769 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
771 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
773 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
774 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
775 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
777 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
778 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
779 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
780 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
782 Faster initial indexing
784 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
785 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
786 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
788 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
790 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
791 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
792 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
793 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
795 New emacs-interface features
796 ----------------------------
798 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
800 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
801 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
802 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
803 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
804 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
805 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
807 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
809 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
810 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
811 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
812 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
814 User-selectable From address
816 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
817 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
818 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
819 will prompt for the from address to use.
821 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
822 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
823 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
825 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
826 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
827 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
830 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
832 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
833 its parent, the subject is not shown.
835 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
837 When a message contains a line looking something like:
839 ----- Original Message -----
841 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
842 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
843 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
844 citations work much like conventional citations.
846 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
848 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
849 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
850 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
851 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
852 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
854 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
855 Notmuch After Tag Hook
857 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
859 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
860 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
861 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
863 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
865 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
866 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
867 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
868 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
869 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
871 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
873 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
876 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
878 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
880 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
882 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
885 Vim interface improvements
886 --------------------------
888 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
890 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
891 * Implementing archive in show view
892 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
893 * Add delete commands
896 Bindings improvements
897 ---------------------
899 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
901 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
902 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
904 Python bindings have been updated and extended
906 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
910 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
911 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
912 `list(Messages)` works now
913 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
915 These allow, for example:
919 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
921 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
927 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
929 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
932 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
934 New build-system features
935 -------------------------
937 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
939 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
940 the configure script from some other directory:
947 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
949 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
950 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
951 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
952 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
953 manual invocation of configure.
955 New test-suite feature
956 ----------------------
958 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
960 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
961 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
962 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
963 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
964 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
967 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
969 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
970 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
971 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
972 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
973 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
974 are updated to take advantage of this.
976 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
978 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
979 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
980 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
981 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
987 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
989 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
990 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
991 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
993 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
995 This fixed a bug where a search for:
997 to:user@elsewhere.com
999 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1001 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1003 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1005 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1006 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1007 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1010 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1011 from the Received headers in some cases
1013 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1014 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1016 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1018 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1020 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1022 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1023 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1024 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1026 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1027 -------------------------
1029 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1031 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1032 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1033 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1035 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1037 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1038 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1039 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1042 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1044 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1045 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1046 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1047 fixed to avoid this bug.
1049 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1051 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1052 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1054 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1055 ========================
1057 New, general features
1058 ---------------------
1060 Maildir-flag synchronization
1062 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1063 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1072 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1074 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1075 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1076 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1077 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1079 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1080 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1081 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1082 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1085 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1087 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1088 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1089 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1091 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1092 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1094 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1095 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1097 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1098 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1099 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1101 New library features
1102 --------------------
1104 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1106 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1107 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1108 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1109 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1111 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1112 message with the new function:
1114 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1116 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1117 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1118 over all available filenames for a given message.
1120 New command-line features
1121 -------------------------
1123 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1125 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1126 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1127 access to the mail store itself.
1129 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1130 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1131 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1132 name of a script containing:
1134 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1136 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1137 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1143 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1145 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1147 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1149 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1150 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1151 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1152 now produces nothing).
1154 Emacs interface improvements
1155 ----------------------------
1157 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1159 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1161 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1163 Display current thread subject in a header line
1165 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1167 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1169 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1170 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1171 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1172 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1173 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1174 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1175 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1177 Vim interface improvements
1178 --------------------------
1180 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1182 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1183 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1189 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1191 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1192 ========================
1194 New command-line features
1195 -------------------------
1197 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1199 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1200 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1201 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1203 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1204 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1205 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1206 scripts. For example:
1208 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1209 <operations-on> "$file"
1212 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1214 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1215 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1216 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1217 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1218 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1219 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1221 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1223 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1224 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1225 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1226 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1228 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1230 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1231 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1232 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1233 default rather than Bcc.
1235 New library features
1236 --------------------
1238 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1240 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1241 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1246 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1248 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1249 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1250 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1251 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1252 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1253 notmuch customize interface.
1255 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1257 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1258 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1259 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1260 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1262 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1264 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1265 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1266 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1267 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1269 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1271 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1272 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1273 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1274 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1275 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1276 notmuch customize interface.
1278 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1280 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1281 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1282 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1283 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1284 notmuch customize interface.
1286 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1288 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1289 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1290 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1291 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1294 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1296 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1297 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1298 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1301 New build-system features
1302 -------------------------
1304 Various portability fixes have been applied
1306 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1307 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1308 more portable than ever before.
1310 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1312 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1313 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1314 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1316 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1317 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1318 automatically run ldconfig.
1320 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1321 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1322 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1324 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1325 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1326 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1327 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1329 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1331 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1332 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1333 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1334 used in the resulting Makefile.
1336 New test-suite features
1337 -----------------------
1339 New modularization of test suite
1341 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1342 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1343 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1344 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1345 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1346 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1347 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1348 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1350 New testing of emacs interface
1352 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1353 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1354 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1355 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1356 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1357 database via the FCC setting.
1362 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1364 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1365 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1366 persistent error of the form:
1368 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1370 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1371 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1373 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1375 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1376 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1377 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1379 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1381 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1382 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1383 parsing the notmuch results).
1385 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1387 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1390 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1391 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1392 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1397 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1399 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1400 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1401 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1402 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1403 the emacs interface.
1405 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1407 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1408 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1409 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1411 Python-binding fixes
1412 --------------------
1414 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1416 Debian-specific fixes
1417 ---------------------
1419 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1421 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1422 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1423 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1426 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1427 ==========================
1432 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1434 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1435 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1436 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1437 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1439 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1441 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1442 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1443 want notmuch to crash.
1448 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1450 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1451 directory does not exist
1456 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1458 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1459 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1461 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1462 ========================
1464 New command-line features
1465 -------------------------
1467 User-configurable tags for new messages
1469 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1470 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1471 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1472 to specify this value.
1474 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1476 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1477 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1478 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1480 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1482 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1483 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1485 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1487 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1488 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1489 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1490 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1491 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1494 Indication of author names that match a search
1496 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1497 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1498 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1499 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1500 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1501 messages in the thread are listed first.
1503 New: Python bindings
1504 --------------------
1506 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1507 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1508 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1509 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1511 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1512 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1513 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1516 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1517 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1518 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1520 Emacs interface improvements
1521 ----------------------------
1523 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1525 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1526 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1527 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1528 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1529 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1530 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1531 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1532 but without any of the disadvantages).
1534 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1535 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1536 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1539 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1540 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1541 instead running something like:
1543 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1545 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1546 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1547 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1550 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1552 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1553 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1554 tweaked by the user.
1556 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1557 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1558 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1561 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1562 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1563 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1566 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1568 This support currently relies on an external program,
1569 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1570 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1571 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1572 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1573 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1576 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1577 notmuch) is available via:
1579 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1581 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1582 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1583 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1585 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1587 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1588 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1589 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1590 making this automatic in a future release.
1592 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1594 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1595 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1596 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1597 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1598 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1599 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1602 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1604 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1605 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1606 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1608 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1610 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1611 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1612 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1614 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1615 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1616 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1617 other representation.
1619 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1620 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1623 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1625 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1626 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1627 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1629 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1630 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1631 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1633 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1635 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1636 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1637 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1638 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1639 to display the search result.
1641 More flexible handling of header visibility
1643 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1644 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1645 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1646 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1647 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1648 with the 'h' keybinding.
1650 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1651 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1652 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1654 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1656 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1658 Customizable formatting of search results
1660 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1661 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1662 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1664 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1666 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1668 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1673 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1675 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1676 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1677 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1678 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1684 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1686 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1687 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1689 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1691 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1692 accept are now all accepted.
1697 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1699 Better display of output from failed tests
1701 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1702 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1704 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1705 ========================
1707 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1708 detailed release notes this time!
1710 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1711 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1713 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1714 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1715 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1716 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1723 Better guessing of From: header
1725 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1726 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1727 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1728 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1729 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1732 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1734 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1735 guaranteed to match all messages.
1737 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1739 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1740 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1741 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1742 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1743 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1746 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1749 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1750 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1751 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1752 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1757 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1759 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1760 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1761 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1762 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1764 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1766 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1768 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1769 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1770 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1772 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1774 Previously, the user might see:
1776 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1780 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1782 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1783 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1784 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1785 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1787 Emacs client features
1788 ---------------------
1790 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1792 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1793 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1794 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1795 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1796 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1798 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1801 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1802 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1803 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1804 search with the '*' binding.
1806 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1808 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1809 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1812 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1814 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1815 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1816 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1818 Build-system features
1819 ---------------------
1821 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1823 Add support to configure for many standard options
1825 We include actual support for:
1827 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1829 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1831 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1832 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1834 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1835 separate "make install-emacs"
1837 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1839 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1840 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1841 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1843 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1846 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1847 ========================
1849 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1851 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1852 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1854 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1855 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1856 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1857 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1858 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1859 tags from messages in a thread.
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