3 Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches
5 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
6 under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch
7 customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and
8 treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive
11 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
13 This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be
14 customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user
15 might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to
16 automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message
17 Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface.
19 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
20 ==========================
23 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
25 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
26 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
27 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
28 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
30 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
32 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
33 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
34 want notmuch to crash.
38 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
40 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
41 directory does not exist.
45 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
47 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
48 final linking of notmuch would fail.
50 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
51 ========================
52 New command-line features
53 -------------------------
54 User-configurable tags for new messages
56 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
57 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
58 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
59 to specify this value.
61 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
63 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
64 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
65 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
67 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
69 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
70 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
72 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
74 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
75 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
76 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
77 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
78 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
81 Indication of author names that match a search
83 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
84 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
85 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
86 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
87 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
88 messages in the thread are listed first.
92 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
93 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
94 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
95 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
97 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
98 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
99 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
102 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
103 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
104 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
106 Emacs interface improvements
107 ----------------------------
108 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
110 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
111 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
112 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
113 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
114 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
115 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
116 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
117 but without any of the disadvantages).
119 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
120 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
121 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
124 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
125 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
126 recommend instead running something like:
128 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
130 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
131 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
132 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
135 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
137 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
138 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
141 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
142 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
143 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
146 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
147 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
148 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
151 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
153 This support currently relies on an external program,
154 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
155 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
156 already been written that generate address completions by doing
157 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
158 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
161 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
162 notmuch) is available via:
164 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
166 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
167 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
168 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
170 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
172 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
173 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
174 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
175 making this automatic in a future release.
177 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
179 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
180 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
181 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
182 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
183 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
184 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
187 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
189 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
190 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
191 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
193 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
195 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
196 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
197 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
199 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
200 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
201 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
202 other representation.
204 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
205 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
208 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
210 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
211 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
212 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
214 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
215 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
216 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
218 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
220 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
221 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
222 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
223 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
224 to display the search result.
226 More flexible handling of header visibility
228 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
229 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
230 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
231 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
232 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
233 with the 'h' keybinding.
235 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
236 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
237 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
239 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
241 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
243 Customizable formatting of search results
245 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
246 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
247 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
249 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
251 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
253 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
257 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
259 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
260 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
261 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
262 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
267 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
269 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
270 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
272 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
274 For example, those that the gentoo build scripts expect configure to
275 accept are now all accepted.
279 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
281 Better display of output from failed tests.
283 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
284 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
286 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
287 ========================
288 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
289 detailed release notes this time!
291 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
292 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
294 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
295 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
296 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
297 notmuch in subsequent releases.
303 Better guessing of From: header.
305 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
306 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
307 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
308 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
309 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
312 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
314 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
315 guaranteed to match all messages.
317 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
319 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
320 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
321 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
322 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
323 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
326 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
329 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
330 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
331 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
332 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
336 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
338 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
339 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
340 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
341 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
343 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
345 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
347 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
348 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
349 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
351 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
353 Previously, the user might see:
355 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
359 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
361 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
362 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
363 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
364 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
366 Emacs client features
367 ---------------------
368 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
370 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
371 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
372 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
373 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
374 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
376 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
379 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
380 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
381 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
382 search with th '*' binding.
384 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
386 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
387 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
390 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
392 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
393 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
394 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
396 Build-system features
397 ---------------------
398 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
400 Add support to configure for many standard options.
402 We include actual support for:
404 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
406 And accept and silently ignore several more:
408 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
409 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
411 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
412 separate "make install-emacs".
414 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
416 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
417 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
418 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
420 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
423 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
424 ========================
425 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
427 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
428 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
430 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
431 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
432 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
433 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
434 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
435 tags from messages in a thread.
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