1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `nmbug-status` now supports `meta.message-url` to override the Gmane
8 template. For example, you can use:
12 "message-url": "https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!search/messageid$3A%22{message-id}%22"
18 To link to messages in the [opencontainers.org Google
19 Groups](https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!overview).
24 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
26 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
27 parts are now included in replies.
29 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
30 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
31 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
32 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
34 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
36 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
38 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
39 =========================
44 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
47 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
49 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
50 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
51 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
53 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
56 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
57 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
58 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
60 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
62 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
63 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
64 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
65 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
66 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
67 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
72 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
73 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
76 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
79 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
81 Command Line Interface
82 ----------------------
84 Database revision tracking
86 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
87 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
88 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
89 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
91 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
93 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
94 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
95 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
96 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
97 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
98 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
99 manual page for further information.
104 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
106 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
107 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
109 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
111 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
112 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
113 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
115 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
117 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
119 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
120 customization as well.
122 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
124 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
126 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
128 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
130 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
131 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
132 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
133 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
135 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
137 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
138 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
139 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
140 this variable to 10000.
145 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
146 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
148 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
150 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
151 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
152 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
153 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
154 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
155 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
156 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
157 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
158 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
161 Database revision tracking
163 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
164 query parser and the new function
165 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
167 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
171 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
172 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
173 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
174 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
179 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
181 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
182 ===========================
187 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
189 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
190 ===========================
195 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
197 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
198 =========================
200 Command-Line Interface
201 ----------------------
203 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
205 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
206 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
207 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
209 Path to gpg is now configurable
211 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
212 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
217 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
219 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
224 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
229 Support messages without Message-IDs.
234 Undeprecate single message mboxes
236 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
237 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
239 New error logging facility
241 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
242 output formerly printed to stderr.
244 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
246 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
248 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
250 Fix for rounding of seconds
255 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
257 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
258 docmumentation has been removed.
260 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
262 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
263 some material from the relicensed wiki.
268 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
269 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
270 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
275 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
276 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
277 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
278 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
279 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
280 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
283 git checkout config origin/config
285 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
287 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
288 =========================
293 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
294 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
295 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
296 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
297 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
298 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
299 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
301 Command-Line Interface
302 ----------------------
304 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
306 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
307 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
308 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
309 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
310 script callers should still check the return value.
312 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
314 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
315 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
316 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
317 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
318 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
319 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
320 and returning success even if indexing fails).
322 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
324 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
325 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
326 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
328 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
330 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
331 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
332 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
333 currently unmaintained.
335 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
337 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
338 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
339 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
340 have at least `N` files associated with them.
342 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
344 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
345 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
346 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
347 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
348 count of duplicate addresses.
353 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
355 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
356 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
357 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
360 Improved handling of the unread tag
362 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
363 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
364 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
365 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
366 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
367 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
368 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
370 Expanded default saved search settings
372 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
373 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
375 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
377 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
378 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
379 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
381 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
383 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
384 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
385 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
386 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
387 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
388 the variable for details.
393 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
395 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
396 Representing these independently of the database version number will
397 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
398 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
400 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
402 Previously, library users were required to call
403 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
404 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
405 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
406 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
407 too out of date for that API.
409 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
411 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
412 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
413 atomic section will be aborted.
415 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
416 `notmuch_database_destroy`
418 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
420 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
421 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
422 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
423 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
424 messages into the same thread.
429 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
430 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
431 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
432 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
433 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
434 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
439 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
440 from the config file. Use something like:
444 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
445 "footer": "</body></html>",
454 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
459 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
460 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
461 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
463 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
464 ===========================
469 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
471 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
473 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
475 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
476 structure for signatures changed slightly.
478 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
480 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
483 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
484 ===========================
486 This is a bug fix and portability release.
491 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
493 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
495 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
497 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
499 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
505 Use --quick when starting emacs
507 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
509 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
511 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
513 Command-Line Interface
514 ----------------------
516 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
517 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
522 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
524 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
525 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
527 Fix for phrase indexing
529 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
530 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
531 will affect only newly indexed messages.
536 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
538 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
539 unintentionally removed.
541 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
542 =========================
547 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
548 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
549 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
550 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
551 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
552 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
553 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
554 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
555 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
561 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
563 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
564 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
565 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
566 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
567 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
568 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
569 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
570 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
572 There is a new `path:` search prefix
574 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
575 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
576 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
577 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
580 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
582 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
583 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
584 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
585 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
586 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
587 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
588 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
593 Notmuch database upgrade
595 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
596 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
597 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
598 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
599 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
600 released version of Notmuch before now.
602 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
604 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
605 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
606 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
607 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
609 Message header parsing changes
611 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
612 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
613 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
614 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
615 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
616 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
618 Command-Line Interface
619 ----------------------
621 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
623 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
625 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
627 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
629 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
631 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
632 user does not want it.
634 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
636 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
637 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
638 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
639 support formatted output.
641 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
643 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
644 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
645 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
653 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
654 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
655 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
656 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
657 `~/.emacs` with these.
659 Changed format for saved searches
661 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
662 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
663 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
664 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
667 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
668 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
669 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
670 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
672 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
673 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
674 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
676 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
677 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
678 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
679 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
680 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
682 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
684 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
685 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
686 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
688 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
690 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
691 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
692 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
693 message had been unread).
695 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
696 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
697 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
698 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
700 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
701 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
702 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
704 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
705 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
706 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
707 to tags already present.
711 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
712 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
713 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
714 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
715 these differ from each other.
716 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
718 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
720 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
721 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
722 for these Emacs versions.
724 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
726 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
727 newlines before calling notmuch count.
729 Bug fixes for sender identities
731 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
732 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
733 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
735 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
737 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
738 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
739 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
740 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
742 Reply pushes mark before signature
744 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
745 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
746 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
748 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
750 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
751 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
757 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
758 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
760 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
761 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
762 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
763 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
765 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
766 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
767 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
768 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
769 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
771 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
773 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
774 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
776 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
777 =========================
779 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
780 ---------------------------------------
782 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
783 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
784 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
785 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
786 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
787 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
788 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
792 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
793 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
795 Command-Line Interface
796 ----------------------
798 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
800 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
801 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
802 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
803 print for each message.
805 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
806 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
807 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
808 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
810 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
812 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
813 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
814 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
816 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
818 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
819 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
820 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
821 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
823 `notmuch compact` command
825 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
826 functionality through a more convenient interface than
827 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
828 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
829 move the compacted database into place.
834 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
836 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
837 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
838 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
839 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
840 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
841 and multiple threads.
845 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
847 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
848 search, show and tree mode itself)
850 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
853 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
854 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
856 Customising `notmuch-tree`
858 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
859 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
860 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
861 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
862 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
863 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
864 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
866 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
868 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
869 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
870 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
871 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
872 thread when the search was performed.
874 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
876 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
877 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
878 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
880 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
882 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
883 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
886 Built-in help improvements
888 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
889 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
890 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
892 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
894 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
895 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
896 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
898 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
900 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
901 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
903 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
905 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
906 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
907 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
908 to move some of them to the common keymap.
910 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
912 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
913 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
914 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
915 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
917 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
919 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
920 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
921 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
923 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
925 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
926 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
927 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
929 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
931 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
932 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
933 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
934 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
935 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
937 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
939 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
940 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
941 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
942 the body part of the message.
947 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
948 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
949 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
951 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
952 =========================
954 Command-Line Interface
955 ----------------------
957 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
959 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
960 folder and notmuch index.
962 `notmuch count --batch` option
964 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
965 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
967 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
969 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
970 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
971 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
974 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
976 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
977 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
978 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
979 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
980 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
983 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
985 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
986 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
988 Top level option to specify configuration file
990 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
991 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
993 Bash command-line completion
995 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
996 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
997 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
998 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
999 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1000 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1001 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1002 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1003 bash-completion package.
1005 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1010 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1012 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1013 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1014 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1015 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1016 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1017 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1018 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1019 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1021 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1023 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1024 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1025 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1027 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1029 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1030 previous thread in the search results.
1032 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1034 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1035 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1037 Faster search and show
1039 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1040 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1041 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1042 threads should show faster.
1046 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1047 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1048 in question was now removed from this release.
1053 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1054 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1059 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1061 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1062 ===========================
1067 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1069 Internal test framework changes
1070 -------------------------------
1072 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1073 being unimplemented.
1075 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1076 ===========================
1078 Internal test framework changes
1079 -------------------------------
1081 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1082 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1084 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1085 =========================
1090 Date range search support
1092 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1093 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1094 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1095 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1096 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1099 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1101 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1102 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1103 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1104 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1105 but may be removed in a future release.
1107 Command-Line Interface
1108 ----------------------
1110 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1112 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1113 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1115 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1117 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1118 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1119 officially deprecated.
1121 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1123 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1124 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1125 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1127 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1129 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1130 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1133 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1134 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1135 dump/restore format.
1137 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1139 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1140 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1141 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1143 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1145 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1146 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1147 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1149 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1151 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1152 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1153 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1154 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1159 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1161 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1162 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1163 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1164 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1166 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1168 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1169 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1170 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1171 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1172 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1173 the behavior of this, see
1174 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1175 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1177 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1178 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1179 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1181 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1183 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1184 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1187 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1189 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1190 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1191 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1192 simply displayed in place of the message.
1194 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1196 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1197 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1199 Improved text/calendar content handling
1201 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1202 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1203 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1204 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1206 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1208 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1209 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1210 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1211 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1213 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1215 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1216 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1217 for HTML email containing images.
1219 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1221 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1223 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1225 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1228 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1230 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1231 the point where it was.
1233 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1235 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1236 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1237 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1238 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1239 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1241 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1243 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1244 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1245 thread instead of the message id.
1247 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1248 -----------------------------
1250 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1251 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1252 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1253 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1254 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1255 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1256 further details and installation.
1261 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1263 Internal test framework changes
1264 -------------------------------
1266 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1268 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1269 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1270 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1271 can result in buggy behavior.
1273 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1274 =========================
1279 Maildir tag synchronization
1281 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1282 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1283 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1284 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1285 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1286 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1289 Command-Line Interface
1290 ----------------------
1292 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1293 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1294 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1295 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1296 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1302 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1304 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1306 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1307 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1308 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1310 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1312 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1313 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1314 span multiple lines.
1316 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1318 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1319 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1320 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1321 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1322 inside the result or message.
1324 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1326 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1327 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1329 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1330 user-specified formatting
1332 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1333 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1334 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1335 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1336 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1338 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1339 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1341 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1342 ===========================
1347 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1348 compilation error for this contrib package.
1350 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1351 ===========================
1356 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1358 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1359 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1360 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1361 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1363 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1364 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1367 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1368 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1369 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1370 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1373 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1375 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1378 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1379 =========================
1381 Command-Line Interface
1382 ----------------------
1386 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1387 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1388 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1389 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1391 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1392 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1393 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1394 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1398 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1399 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1401 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1402 tag in your query, for example:
1404 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1406 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1407 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1409 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1410 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1412 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1414 Raw show format changes
1416 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1417 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1418 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1419 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1420 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1421 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1422 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1423 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1425 Listing configuration items
1427 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1433 Changes to tagging interface
1435 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1436 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1437 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1438 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1439 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1440 for more information.
1442 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1443 may need to update in custom configurations.
1445 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1447 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1448 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1449 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1450 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1453 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1454 -----------------------------
1456 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1457 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1458 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1459 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1460 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1461 contrib/ from now on.
1466 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1467 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1469 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1470 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1472 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1473 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1474 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1476 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1477 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1479 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1480 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1481 returning the new database object or directory object.
1488 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1489 compatible with go 1.
1491 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1492 =========================
1494 Command-Line Interface
1495 ----------------------
1499 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1500 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1501 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1502 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1504 Mail store folder/file ignore
1506 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1507 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1508 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1510 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1511 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1513 Unified help and manual pages
1515 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1516 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1519 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1521 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1522 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1530 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1531 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1532 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1533 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1535 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1537 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1538 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1540 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1543 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1544 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1545 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1547 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1549 should be changed to:
1551 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1553 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1555 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1556 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1558 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1560 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1561 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1562 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1563 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1564 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1565 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1569 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1570 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1571 of Mailing List Archives.
1573 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1575 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1576 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1579 Show view archiving key binding changes
1581 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1582 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1583 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1584 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1585 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1588 Support text/calendar MIME type
1590 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1593 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1595 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1596 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1597 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1598 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1600 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1602 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1603 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1604 messages blue by default in the search view.
1608 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1609 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1616 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1619 Python bindings changes
1620 -----------------------
1622 Python 3.2 compatibility
1624 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1626 Added missing unicode conversions
1628 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1629 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1630 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1635 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1637 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1638 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1639 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1640 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1641 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1643 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1644 ===========================
1649 Fix error handling in python bindings
1651 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1652 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1653 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1654 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1656 Quote MML tags in replies
1658 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1659 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1660 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1661 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1662 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1663 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1664 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1665 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1667 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1668 =========================
1670 Command-Line Interface
1671 ----------------------
1675 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1676 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1677 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1678 importing new messages into the database.
1680 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1682 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1683 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1684 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1689 Automatic tag query optimization
1691 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1692 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1693 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1695 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1697 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1698 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1699 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1704 Reduction of memory leaks
1706 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1707 and fixed in this release.
1714 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1715 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1716 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1719 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1721 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1722 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1723 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1726 Improvements in saved search management
1728 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1729 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1730 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1732 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1734 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1735 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1736 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1738 New face for crypto parts headers
1740 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1741 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1742 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1745 Use space as default thousands separator
1747 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1748 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1749 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1751 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1752 buttonized id: links
1754 New function notmuch-show-advance
1756 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1757 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1758 be bound to SPC with:
1760 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1762 Various performance improvements
1767 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1768 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1771 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1772 ===========================
1777 Fix crash in python bindings
1779 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1780 for some, but not all users.
1782 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1783 ===========================
1788 Fix `--help` argument
1790 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1791 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1792 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1794 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1795 =========================
1797 New build and testing features
1798 ------------------------------
1800 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1801 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1802 prerequisites is improved.
1804 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1806 New command-line features
1807 -------------------------
1809 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1811 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1812 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1815 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1817 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1818 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1819 favour of using stdout.
1821 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1823 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1824 limit the number of results shown.
1826 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1828 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1829 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1832 New emacs UI features
1833 ---------------------
1835 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1837 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1838 starting with "tag:".
1840 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1842 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1843 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1845 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1847 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1849 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1851 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1852 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1857 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1859 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1861 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1862 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1863 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1864 requires a database rebuild:
1866 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1867 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1869 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1871 New collection of add-on tools
1872 ------------------------------
1874 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1875 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1876 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1879 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1881 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1882 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1883 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1885 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1886 ========================
1888 New, general features
1889 ---------------------
1891 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1893 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1894 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1895 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1896 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1897 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1904 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1905 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1907 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1911 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1912 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1913 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1916 Python bindings changes
1917 -----------------------
1919 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1921 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1922 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1923 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1924 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1925 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1926 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1928 Ruby bindings changes
1929 ---------------------
1931 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1932 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1933 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1934 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1939 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1941 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1942 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1944 Reply formatting cleanup
1945 ------------------------
1947 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1948 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1950 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1951 ========================
1953 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1955 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1956 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1957 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1958 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1961 Improved Build system portability
1963 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1964 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1965 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1967 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1969 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1971 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1973 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1974 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1975 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1977 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1978 ========================
1980 Vim interface improvements
1981 --------------------------
1983 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1985 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1986 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1987 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1988 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1989 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1991 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1993 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1994 * fix compose temp file name
1996 Python Bindings changes
1997 -----------------------
1999 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2001 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2002 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2004 Build-System improvements
2005 -------------------------
2007 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2009 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2012 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2013 ==========================
2018 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2020 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2021 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2023 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2024 =======================
2026 New, general features
2027 ---------------------
2029 Folder-based searching
2031 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2032 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2033 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2037 For example, one might use things such as:
2043 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2044 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2046 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2047 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2048 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2049 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2051 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2052 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2053 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2056 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2057 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2059 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2061 Support for PGP/MIME
2063 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2064 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2065 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2067 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2069 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2070 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2072 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2073 notmuch will receive these tags.
2075 New command-line features
2076 -------------------------
2078 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2080 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2081 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2083 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2085 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2086 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2087 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2089 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2091 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2092 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2093 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2094 which parts a signature part applies).
2096 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2098 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2099 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2100 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2101 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2102 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2105 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2107 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2108 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2109 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2110 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2111 by translating it internally to the new call.
2113 Performance improvements
2114 ------------------------
2116 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2118 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2119 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2120 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2122 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2123 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2125 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2127 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2128 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2129 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2131 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2132 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2133 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2134 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2136 Faster initial indexing
2138 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2139 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2140 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2142 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2144 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2145 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2146 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2147 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2149 New emacs-interface features
2150 ----------------------------
2152 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2154 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2155 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2156 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2157 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2158 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2159 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2161 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2163 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2164 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2165 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2166 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2168 User-selectable From address
2170 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2171 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2172 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2173 will prompt for the from address to use.
2175 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2176 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2177 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2179 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2180 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2181 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2184 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2186 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2187 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2189 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2191 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2193 ----- Original Message -----
2195 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2196 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2197 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2198 citations work much like conventional citations.
2200 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2202 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2203 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2204 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2205 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2206 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2208 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2209 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2211 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2213 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2214 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2215 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2217 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2219 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2220 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2221 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2222 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2223 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2225 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2227 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2230 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2232 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2234 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2236 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2239 Vim interface improvements
2240 --------------------------
2242 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2244 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2245 * Implementing archive in show view
2246 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2247 * Add delete commands
2250 Bindings improvements
2251 ---------------------
2253 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2255 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2256 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2258 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2260 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2264 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2265 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2266 `list(Messages)` works now
2267 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2269 These allow, for example:
2271 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2273 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2275 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2281 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2283 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2286 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2288 New build-system features
2289 -------------------------
2291 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2293 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2294 the configure script from some other directory:
2301 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2303 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2304 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2305 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2306 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2307 manual invocation of configure.
2309 New test-suite feature
2310 ----------------------
2312 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2314 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2315 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2316 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2317 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2318 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2321 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2323 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2324 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2325 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2326 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2327 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2328 are updated to take advantage of this.
2330 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2332 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2333 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2334 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2335 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2341 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2343 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2344 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2345 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2347 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2349 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2351 to:user@elsewhere.com
2353 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2355 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2357 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2359 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2360 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2361 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2364 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2365 from the Received headers in some cases
2367 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2368 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2370 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2372 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2374 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2376 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2377 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2378 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2380 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2381 -------------------------
2383 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2385 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2386 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2387 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2389 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2391 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2392 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2393 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2396 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2398 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2399 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2400 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2401 fixed to avoid this bug.
2403 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2405 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2406 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2408 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2409 ========================
2411 New, general features
2412 ---------------------
2414 Maildir-flag synchronization
2416 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2417 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2426 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2428 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2429 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2430 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2431 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2433 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2434 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2435 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2436 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2439 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2441 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2442 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2443 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2445 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2446 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2448 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2449 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2451 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2452 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2453 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2455 New library features
2456 --------------------
2458 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2460 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2461 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2462 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2463 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2465 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2466 message with the new function:
2468 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2470 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2471 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2472 over all available filenames for a given message.
2474 New command-line features
2475 -------------------------
2477 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2479 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2480 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2481 access to the mail store itself.
2483 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2484 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2485 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2486 name of a script containing:
2488 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2490 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2491 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2497 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2499 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2501 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2503 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2504 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2505 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2506 now produces nothing).
2508 Emacs interface improvements
2509 ----------------------------
2511 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2513 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2515 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2517 Display current thread subject in a header line
2519 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2521 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2523 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2524 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2525 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2526 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2527 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2528 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2529 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2531 Vim interface improvements
2532 --------------------------
2534 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2536 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2537 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2543 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2545 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2546 ========================
2548 New command-line features
2549 -------------------------
2551 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2553 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2554 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2555 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2557 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2558 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2559 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2560 scripts. For example:
2562 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2563 <operations-on> "$file"
2566 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2568 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2569 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2570 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2571 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2572 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2573 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2575 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2577 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2578 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2579 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2580 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2582 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2584 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2585 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2586 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2587 default rather than Bcc.
2589 New library features
2590 --------------------
2592 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2594 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2595 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2600 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2602 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2603 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2604 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2605 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2606 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2607 notmuch customize interface.
2609 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2611 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2612 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2613 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2614 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2616 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2618 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2619 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2620 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2621 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2623 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2625 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2626 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2627 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2628 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2629 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2630 notmuch customize interface.
2632 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2634 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2635 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2636 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2637 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2638 notmuch customize interface.
2640 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2642 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2643 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2644 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2645 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2648 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2650 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2651 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2652 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2655 New build-system features
2656 -------------------------
2658 Various portability fixes have been applied
2660 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2661 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2662 more portable than ever before.
2664 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2666 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2667 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2668 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2670 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2671 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2672 automatically run ldconfig.
2674 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2675 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2676 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2678 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2679 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2680 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2681 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2683 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2685 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2686 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2687 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2688 used in the resulting Makefile.
2690 New test-suite features
2691 -----------------------
2693 New modularization of test suite
2695 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2696 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2697 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2698 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2699 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2700 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2701 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2702 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2704 New testing of emacs interface
2706 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2707 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2708 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2709 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2710 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2711 database via the FCC setting.
2716 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2718 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2719 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2720 persistent error of the form:
2722 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2724 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2725 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2727 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2729 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2730 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2731 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2733 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2735 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2736 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2737 parsing the notmuch results).
2739 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2741 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2744 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2745 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2746 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2751 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2753 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2754 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2755 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2756 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2757 the emacs interface.
2759 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2761 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2762 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2763 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2765 Python-binding fixes
2766 --------------------
2768 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2770 Debian-specific fixes
2771 ---------------------
2773 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2775 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2776 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2777 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2780 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2781 ==========================
2786 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2788 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2789 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2790 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2791 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2793 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2795 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2796 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2797 want notmuch to crash.
2802 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2804 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2805 directory does not exist
2810 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2812 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2813 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2815 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2816 ========================
2818 New command-line features
2819 -------------------------
2821 User-configurable tags for new messages
2823 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2824 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2825 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2826 to specify this value.
2828 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2830 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2831 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2832 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2834 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2836 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2837 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2839 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2841 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2842 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2843 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2844 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2845 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2848 Indication of author names that match a search
2850 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2851 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2852 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2853 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2854 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2855 messages in the thread are listed first.
2857 New: Python bindings
2858 --------------------
2860 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2861 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2862 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2863 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2865 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2866 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2867 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2870 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2871 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2872 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2874 Emacs interface improvements
2875 ----------------------------
2877 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2879 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2880 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2881 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2882 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2883 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2884 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2885 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2886 but without any of the disadvantages).
2888 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2889 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2890 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2893 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2894 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2895 instead running something like:
2897 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2899 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2900 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2901 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2904 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2906 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2907 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2908 tweaked by the user.
2910 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2911 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2912 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2915 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2916 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2917 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2920 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2922 This support currently relies on an external program,
2923 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2924 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2925 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2926 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2927 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2930 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2931 notmuch) is available via:
2933 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2935 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2936 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2937 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2939 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2941 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2942 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2943 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2944 making this automatic in a future release.
2946 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2948 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2949 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2950 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2951 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2952 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2953 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2956 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2958 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2959 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2960 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2962 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2964 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2965 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2966 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2968 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2969 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2970 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2971 other representation.
2973 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2974 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2977 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2979 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2980 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2981 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2983 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2984 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2985 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2987 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2989 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2990 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2991 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2992 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2993 to display the search result.
2995 More flexible handling of header visibility
2997 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2998 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2999 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3000 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3001 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3002 with the 'h' keybinding.
3004 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3005 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3006 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3008 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3010 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3012 Customizable formatting of search results
3014 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3015 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3016 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3018 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3020 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3022 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3027 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3029 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3030 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3031 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3032 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3038 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3040 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3041 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3043 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3045 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3046 accept are now all accepted.
3051 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3053 Better display of output from failed tests
3055 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3056 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3058 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3059 ========================
3061 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3062 detailed release notes this time!
3064 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3065 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3067 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3068 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3069 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3070 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3077 Better guessing of From: header
3079 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3080 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3081 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3082 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3083 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3086 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3088 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3089 guaranteed to match all messages.
3091 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3093 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3094 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3095 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3096 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3097 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3100 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3103 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3104 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3105 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3106 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3111 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3113 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3114 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3115 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3116 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3118 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3120 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3122 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3123 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3124 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3126 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3128 Previously, the user might see:
3130 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3134 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3136 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3137 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3138 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3139 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3141 Emacs client features
3142 ---------------------
3144 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3146 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3147 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3148 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3149 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3150 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3152 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3155 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3156 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3157 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3158 search with the '*' binding.
3160 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3162 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3163 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3166 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3168 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3169 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3170 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3172 Build-system features
3173 ---------------------
3175 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3177 Add support to configure for many standard options
3179 We include actual support for:
3181 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3183 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3185 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3186 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3188 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3189 separate "make install-emacs"
3191 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3193 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3194 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3195 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3197 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3200 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3201 ========================
3203 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3205 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3206 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3208 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3209 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3210 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3211 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3212 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3213 tags from messages in a thread.
3220 indent-tabs-mode: nil