1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
28 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
29 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
30 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
31 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
33 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
35 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
36 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
38 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
41 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
42 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
43 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
45 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
49 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
51 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
53 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
54 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
56 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
58 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
59 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
60 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
61 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
62 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
63 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
67 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
68 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
69 of Mailing List Archives.
71 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
73 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
74 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
77 Show view archiving key binding changes
79 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
80 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
81 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
82 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
83 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
86 Support text/calendar MIME type
88 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
91 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
93 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
94 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
95 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
96 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
103 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
106 Python bindings changes
107 -----------------------
109 Python 3.2 compatibility
111 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
113 Added missing unicode conversions
115 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
116 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
117 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
122 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
124 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
125 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
126 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
128 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
129 ===========================
134 Fix error handling in python bindings.
136 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
137 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
138 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
139 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
141 Quote MML tags in replies
143 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
144 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
145 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
146 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
147 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
148 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
149 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
150 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
152 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
153 =========================
155 Command-Line Interface
156 ----------------------
160 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
161 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
162 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
163 importing new messages into the database.
165 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
167 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
168 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
169 sometimes. This is now fixed.
174 Automatic tag query optimization
176 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
177 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
178 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
180 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
182 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
183 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
184 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
189 Reduction of memory leaks
191 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
192 and fixed in this release.
199 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
200 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
201 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
204 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
206 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
207 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
208 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
211 Improvements in saved search management
213 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
214 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
215 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
217 Hooks for notmuch-hello
219 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
220 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
221 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
223 New face for crypto parts headers
225 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
226 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
227 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
230 Use space as default thousands separator
232 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
233 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
234 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
236 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
237 buttonized id: links.
239 New function notmuch-show-advance
241 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
242 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
243 be bound to SPC with:
245 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
247 Various performance improvements.
252 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
253 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
256 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
257 ===========================
262 Fix crash in python bindings.
264 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
265 for some, but not all users.
267 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
268 ===========================
275 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
276 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
279 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
280 =========================
282 New build and testing features
283 ------------------------------
285 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
286 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
287 prerequisites is improved.
289 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
291 New command-line features
292 -------------------------
294 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
296 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
297 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
300 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
302 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
303 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
304 favour of using stdout.
306 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
308 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
309 the number of results shown.
311 Add "notmuch count --output" option
313 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
314 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
316 New emacs UI features
317 ---------------------
319 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
321 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
322 starting with "tag:".
324 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
326 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
327 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
329 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
331 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
333 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
335 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
336 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
341 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
343 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
345 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
346 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
347 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
348 requires a database rebuild:
350 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
351 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
353 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
355 New collection of add-on tools
356 ------------------------------
358 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
359 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
360 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
363 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
365 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
366 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
367 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
369 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
370 ========================
372 New, general features
373 ---------------------
375 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
377 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
378 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
379 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
380 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
381 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
388 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
389 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
391 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
395 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
396 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
397 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
400 Python bindings changes
401 -----------------------
403 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
405 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
406 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
407 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
408 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
409 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
410 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
412 Ruby bindings changes
413 ---------------------
415 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
416 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
417 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
418 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
423 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
425 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
426 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
428 Reply formatting cleanup
429 ------------------------
431 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
432 MIME parts are being suppressed.
434 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
435 ========================
437 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
439 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
440 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
441 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
442 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
445 Improved Build system portability
447 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
448 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
449 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
451 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
453 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
455 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
457 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
458 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
459 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
461 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
462 ========================
464 Vim interface improvements
465 --------------------------
467 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
469 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
470 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
471 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
472 * fix from list reformatting in search view
473 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
475 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
477 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
478 * fix compose temp file name
480 Python Bindings changes
481 -----------------------
483 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
485 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
486 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
488 Build-System improvements
489 ------------------------
491 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
493 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
496 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
497 ==========================
502 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
504 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
505 people running gcc 4.4.5.
507 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
508 =======================
509 New, general features
510 ---------------------
511 Folder-based searching
513 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
514 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
515 storage). The syntax is as follows:
519 For example, one might use things such as:
525 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
526 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
528 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
529 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
530 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
531 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
533 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
534 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
535 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
538 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
539 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
541 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
545 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
546 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
547 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
549 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
551 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
552 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
554 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
555 notmuch will receive these tags.
557 New command-line features
558 -------------------------
559 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
561 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
562 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
564 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
566 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
567 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
568 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
570 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
572 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
573 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
574 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
575 which parts a signature part applies).
577 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
579 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
580 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
581 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
582 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
583 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
586 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
588 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
589 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
590 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
591 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
592 by translating it internally to the new call.
594 Performance improvements
595 ------------------------
596 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
598 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
599 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
600 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
602 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
603 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
605 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
607 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
608 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
609 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
611 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
612 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
613 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
614 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
616 Faster initial indexing
618 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
619 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
620 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
622 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
624 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
625 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
626 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
627 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
629 New emacs-interface features
630 ----------------------------
632 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
634 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
635 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
636 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
637 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
638 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
639 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
641 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
643 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
644 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
645 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
646 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
648 User-selectable From address
650 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
651 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
652 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
653 will prompt for the from address to use.
655 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
656 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
657 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
659 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
660 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
661 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
664 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
666 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
667 its parent, the subject is not shown.
669 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
671 When a message contains a line looking something like:
673 ----- Original Message -----
675 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
676 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
677 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
678 citations work much like conventional citations.
680 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
682 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
683 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
684 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
685 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
686 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
688 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
689 Notmuch After Tag Hook
691 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
693 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
694 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
695 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
697 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
699 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
700 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
701 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
702 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
703 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
705 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
707 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
710 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
712 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
714 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
715 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
717 Vim interface improvements
718 --------------------------
719 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
721 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
722 * Implementing archive in show view
723 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
724 * Add delete commands
727 Bindings improvements
728 ---------------------
729 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
731 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
732 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
734 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
735 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
738 - Message().get_filenames(),
739 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
740 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
742 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
743 These allow, for example:
746 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
748 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
753 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
754 Use len(list(Messages())) or
755 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
757 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
759 New build-system features
760 -------------------------
761 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
763 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
764 the configure script from some other directory:
771 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
773 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
774 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
775 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
776 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
777 manual invocation of configure.
779 New test-suite feature
780 ----------------------
781 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
783 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
784 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
785 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
786 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
787 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
790 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
792 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
793 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
794 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
795 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
796 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
797 are updated to take advantage of this.
799 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
801 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
802 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
803 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
804 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
809 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
811 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
812 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
813 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
815 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
817 This fixed a bug where a search for:
819 to:user@elsewhere.com
821 would incorrectly match a message sent:
823 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
825 Fix --output=json when search has no results
827 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
828 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
829 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
832 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
833 from the Received headers in some cases.
835 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
836 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
838 Cleaned up several memory leaks
840 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
842 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
844 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
845 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
846 interface and were never intended to be exported.
848 Emacs-interface bug fixes
849 -------------------------
850 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
852 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
853 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
854 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
856 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
858 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
859 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
860 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
863 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
865 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
866 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
867 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
868 fixed to avoid this bug.
870 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
872 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
873 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
875 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
876 ========================
877 New, general features
878 ---------------------
879 Maildir-flag synchronization
881 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
882 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
891 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
893 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
894 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
895 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
896 renamed with an 'R' flag).
898 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
899 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
900 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
901 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
904 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
906 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
907 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
908 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
910 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
911 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
913 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
914 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
916 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
917 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
918 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
922 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
924 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
925 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
926 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
927 notmuch_message_get_filename).
929 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
930 message with the new function:
932 notmuch_message_get_filenames
934 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
935 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
936 all available filenames for a given message.
938 New command-line features
939 -------------------------
940 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
942 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
943 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
944 access to the mail store itself.
946 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
947 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
948 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
949 name of a script containing:
951 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
953 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
954 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
959 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
961 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
963 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
965 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
966 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
967 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
968 now produces nothing).
970 Emacs interface improvements
971 ----------------------------
972 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
974 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
976 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
978 Display current thread subject in a header line.
980 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
982 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
984 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
985 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
986 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
987 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
988 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
989 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
990 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
992 Vim interface improvements
993 --------------------------
994 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
996 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
997 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1002 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1004 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1005 ========================
1006 New command-line features
1007 -------------------------
1008 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1010 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1011 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1012 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1014 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1015 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1016 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1017 scripts. For example:
1019 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1020 <operations-on> "$file"
1023 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1025 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1026 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1027 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1028 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1029 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1030 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1032 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1034 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1035 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1036 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1037 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1039 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1041 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1042 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1043 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1044 default rather than Bcc.
1046 New library features
1047 --------------------
1048 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1050 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1051 notmuch_query_t object.
1055 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1057 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1058 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1059 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1060 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1061 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1062 notmuch customize interface.
1064 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1066 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1067 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1068 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1069 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1071 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1073 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1074 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1075 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1076 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1078 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1080 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1081 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1082 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1083 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1084 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1085 notmuch customize interface.
1087 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1089 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1090 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1091 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1092 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1093 notmuch customize interface.
1095 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1097 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1098 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1099 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1100 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1103 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1105 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1106 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1107 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1110 New build-system features
1111 -------------------------
1112 Various portability fixes have been applied
1114 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1115 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1116 more portable than ever before.
1118 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1120 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1121 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1122 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1124 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1125 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1126 automatically run ldconfig.
1128 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1129 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1130 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1132 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1133 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1134 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1135 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1137 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1139 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1140 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1141 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1142 used in the resulting Makefile.
1144 New test-suite features
1145 -----------------------
1146 New modularization of test suite.
1148 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1149 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1150 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1151 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1152 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1153 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1154 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1155 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1157 New testing of emacs interface.
1159 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1160 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1161 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1162 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1163 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1164 database via the FCC setting.
1168 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1170 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1171 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1172 persistent error of the form:
1174 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1176 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1177 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1179 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1181 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1182 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1183 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1185 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1187 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1188 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1189 parsing the notmuch results).
1191 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1193 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1195 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1196 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1197 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1201 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1203 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1204 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1205 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1206 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1207 the emacs interface.
1209 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1211 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1212 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1213 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1215 Python-binding fixes
1216 --------------------
1217 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1219 Debian-specific fixes
1220 ---------------------
1221 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1223 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1224 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1225 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1228 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1229 ==========================
1232 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1234 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1235 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1236 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1237 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1239 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1241 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1242 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1243 want notmuch to crash.
1247 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1249 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1250 directory does not exist.
1254 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1256 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1257 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1259 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1260 ========================
1261 New command-line features
1262 -------------------------
1263 User-configurable tags for new messages
1265 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1266 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1267 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1268 to specify this value.
1270 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1272 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1273 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1274 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1276 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1278 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1279 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1281 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1283 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1284 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1285 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1286 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1287 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1290 Indication of author names that match a search
1292 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1293 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1294 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1295 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1296 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1297 messages in the thread are listed first.
1299 New: Python bindings
1300 --------------------
1301 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1302 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1303 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1304 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1306 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1307 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1308 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1311 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1312 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1313 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1315 Emacs interface improvements
1316 ----------------------------
1317 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1319 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1320 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1321 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1322 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1323 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1324 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1325 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1326 but without any of the disadvantages).
1328 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1329 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1330 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1333 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1334 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1335 recommend instead running something like:
1337 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1339 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1340 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1341 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1344 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1346 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1347 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1348 tweaked by the user.
1350 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1351 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1352 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1355 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1356 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1357 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1360 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1362 This support currently relies on an external program,
1363 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1364 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1365 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1366 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1367 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1370 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1371 notmuch) is available via:
1373 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1375 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1376 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1377 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1379 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1381 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1382 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1383 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1384 making this automatic in a future release.
1386 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1388 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1389 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1390 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1391 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1392 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1393 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1396 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1398 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1399 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1400 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1402 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1404 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1405 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1406 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1408 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1409 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1410 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1411 other representation.
1413 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1414 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1417 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1419 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1420 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1421 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1423 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1424 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1425 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1427 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1429 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1430 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1431 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1432 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1433 to display the search result.
1435 More flexible handling of header visibility
1437 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1438 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1439 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1440 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1441 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1442 with the 'h' keybinding.
1444 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1445 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1446 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1448 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1450 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1452 Customizable formatting of search results
1454 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1455 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1456 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1458 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1460 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1462 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1466 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1468 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1469 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1470 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1471 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1476 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1478 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1479 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1481 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1483 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1484 accept are now all accepted.
1488 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1490 Better display of output from failed tests.
1492 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1493 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1495 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1496 ========================
1497 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1498 detailed release notes this time!
1500 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1501 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1503 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1504 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1505 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1506 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1512 Better guessing of From: header.
1514 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1515 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1516 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1517 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1518 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1521 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1523 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1524 guaranteed to match all messages.
1526 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1528 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1529 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1530 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1531 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1532 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1535 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1538 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1539 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1540 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1541 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1545 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1547 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1548 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1549 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1550 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1552 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1554 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1556 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1557 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1558 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1560 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1562 Previously, the user might see:
1564 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1568 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1570 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1571 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1572 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1573 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1575 Emacs client features
1576 ---------------------
1577 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1579 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1580 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1581 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1582 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1583 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1585 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1588 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1589 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1590 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1591 search with the '*' binding.
1593 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1595 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1596 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1599 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1601 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1602 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1603 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1605 Build-system features
1606 ---------------------
1607 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1609 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1611 We include actual support for:
1613 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1615 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1617 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1618 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1620 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1621 separate "make install-emacs".
1623 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1625 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1626 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1627 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1629 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1632 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1633 ========================
1634 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1636 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1637 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1639 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1640 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1641 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1642 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1643 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1644 tags from messages in a thread.