1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
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.
23 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
25 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
26 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
34 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
35 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
36 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
37 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
39 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
41 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
42 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
44 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
47 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
48 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
49 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
51 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
55 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
57 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
59 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
60 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
62 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
64 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
65 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
66 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
67 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
68 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
69 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
73 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
74 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
75 of Mailing List Archives.
77 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
79 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
80 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
83 Show view archiving key binding changes
85 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
86 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
87 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
88 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
89 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
92 Support text/calendar MIME type
94 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
97 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
99 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
100 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
101 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
102 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
104 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces' by default
106 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces' functionality more discoverable
107 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
108 messages blue by default in the search view.
115 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
118 Python bindings changes
119 -----------------------
121 Python 3.2 compatibility
123 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
125 Added missing unicode conversions
127 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
128 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
129 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
134 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
136 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
137 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
138 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
139 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
140 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
142 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
143 ===========================
148 Fix error handling in python bindings.
150 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
151 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
152 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
153 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
155 Quote MML tags in replies
157 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
158 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
159 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
160 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
161 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
162 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
163 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
164 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
166 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
167 =========================
169 Command-Line Interface
170 ----------------------
174 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
175 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
176 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
177 importing new messages into the database.
179 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
181 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
182 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
183 sometimes. This is now fixed.
188 Automatic tag query optimization
190 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
191 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
192 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
194 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
196 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
197 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
198 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
203 Reduction of memory leaks
205 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
206 and fixed in this release.
213 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
214 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
215 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
218 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
220 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
221 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
222 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
225 Improvements in saved search management
227 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
228 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
229 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
231 Hooks for notmuch-hello
233 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
234 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
235 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
237 New face for crypto parts headers
239 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
240 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
241 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
244 Use space as default thousands separator
246 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
247 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
248 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
250 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
251 buttonized id: links.
253 New function notmuch-show-advance
255 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
256 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
257 be bound to SPC with:
259 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
261 Various performance improvements.
266 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
267 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
270 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
271 ===========================
276 Fix crash in python bindings.
278 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
279 for some, but not all users.
281 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
282 ===========================
289 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
290 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
293 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
294 =========================
296 New build and testing features
297 ------------------------------
299 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
300 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
301 prerequisites is improved.
303 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
305 New command-line features
306 -------------------------
308 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
310 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
311 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
314 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
316 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
317 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
318 favour of using stdout.
320 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
322 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
323 the number of results shown.
325 Add "notmuch count --output" option
327 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
328 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
330 New emacs UI features
331 ---------------------
333 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
335 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
336 starting with "tag:".
338 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
340 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
341 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
343 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
345 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
347 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
349 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
350 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
355 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
357 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
359 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
360 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
361 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
362 requires a database rebuild:
364 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
365 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
367 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
369 New collection of add-on tools
370 ------------------------------
372 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
373 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
374 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
377 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
379 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
380 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
381 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
383 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
384 ========================
386 New, general features
387 ---------------------
389 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
391 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
392 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
393 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
394 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
395 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
402 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
403 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
405 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
409 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
410 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
411 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
414 Python bindings changes
415 -----------------------
417 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
419 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
420 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
421 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
422 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
423 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
424 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
426 Ruby bindings changes
427 ---------------------
429 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
430 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
431 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
432 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
437 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
439 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
440 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
442 Reply formatting cleanup
443 ------------------------
445 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
446 MIME parts are being suppressed.
448 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
449 ========================
451 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
453 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
454 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
455 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
456 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
459 Improved Build system portability
461 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
462 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
463 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
465 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
467 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
469 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
471 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
472 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
473 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
475 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
476 ========================
478 Vim interface improvements
479 --------------------------
481 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
483 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
484 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
485 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
486 * fix from list reformatting in search view
487 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
489 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
491 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
492 * fix compose temp file name
494 Python Bindings changes
495 -----------------------
497 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
499 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
500 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
502 Build-System improvements
503 ------------------------
505 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
507 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
510 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
511 ==========================
516 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
518 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
519 people running gcc 4.4.5.
521 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
522 =======================
523 New, general features
524 ---------------------
525 Folder-based searching
527 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
528 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
529 storage). The syntax is as follows:
533 For example, one might use things such as:
539 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
540 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
542 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
543 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
544 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
545 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
547 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
548 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
549 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
552 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
553 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
555 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
559 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
560 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
561 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
563 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
565 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
566 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
568 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
569 notmuch will receive these tags.
571 New command-line features
572 -------------------------
573 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
575 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
576 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
578 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
580 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
581 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
582 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
584 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
586 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
587 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
588 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
589 which parts a signature part applies).
591 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
593 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
594 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
595 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
596 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
597 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
600 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
602 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
603 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
604 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
605 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
606 by translating it internally to the new call.
608 Performance improvements
609 ------------------------
610 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
612 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
613 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
614 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
616 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
617 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
619 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
621 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
622 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
623 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
625 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
626 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
627 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
628 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
630 Faster initial indexing
632 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
633 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
634 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
636 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
638 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
639 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
640 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
641 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
643 New emacs-interface features
644 ----------------------------
646 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
648 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
649 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
650 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
651 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
652 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
653 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
655 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
657 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
658 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
659 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
660 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
662 User-selectable From address
664 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
665 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
666 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
667 will prompt for the from address to use.
669 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
670 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
671 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
673 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
674 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
675 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
678 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
680 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
681 its parent, the subject is not shown.
683 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
685 When a message contains a line looking something like:
687 ----- Original Message -----
689 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
690 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
691 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
692 citations work much like conventional citations.
694 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
696 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
697 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
698 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
699 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
700 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
702 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
703 Notmuch After Tag Hook
705 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
707 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
708 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
709 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
711 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
713 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
714 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
715 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
716 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
717 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
719 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
721 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
724 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
726 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
728 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
729 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
731 Vim interface improvements
732 --------------------------
733 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
735 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
736 * Implementing archive in show view
737 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
738 * Add delete commands
741 Bindings improvements
742 ---------------------
743 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
745 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
746 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
748 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
749 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
752 - Message().get_filenames(),
753 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
754 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
756 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
757 These allow, for example:
760 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
762 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
767 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
768 Use len(list(Messages())) or
769 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
771 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
773 New build-system features
774 -------------------------
775 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
777 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
778 the configure script from some other directory:
785 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
787 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
788 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
789 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
790 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
791 manual invocation of configure.
793 New test-suite feature
794 ----------------------
795 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
797 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
798 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
799 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
800 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
801 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
804 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
806 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
807 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
808 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
809 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
810 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
811 are updated to take advantage of this.
813 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
815 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
816 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
817 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
818 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
823 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
825 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
826 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
827 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
829 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
831 This fixed a bug where a search for:
833 to:user@elsewhere.com
835 would incorrectly match a message sent:
837 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
839 Fix --output=json when search has no results
841 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
842 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
843 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
846 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
847 from the Received headers in some cases.
849 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
850 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
852 Cleaned up several memory leaks
854 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
856 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
858 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
859 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
860 interface and were never intended to be exported.
862 Emacs-interface bug fixes
863 -------------------------
864 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
866 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
867 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
868 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
870 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
872 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
873 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
874 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
877 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
879 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
880 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
881 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
882 fixed to avoid this bug.
884 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
886 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
887 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
889 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
890 ========================
891 New, general features
892 ---------------------
893 Maildir-flag synchronization
895 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
896 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
905 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
907 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
908 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
909 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
910 renamed with an 'R' flag).
912 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
913 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
914 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
915 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
918 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
920 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
921 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
922 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
924 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
925 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
927 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
928 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
930 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
931 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
932 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
936 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
938 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
939 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
940 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
941 notmuch_message_get_filename).
943 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
944 message with the new function:
946 notmuch_message_get_filenames
948 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
949 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
950 all available filenames for a given message.
952 New command-line features
953 -------------------------
954 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
956 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
957 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
958 access to the mail store itself.
960 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
961 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
962 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
963 name of a script containing:
965 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
967 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
968 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
973 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
975 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
977 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
979 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
980 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
981 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
982 now produces nothing).
984 Emacs interface improvements
985 ----------------------------
986 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
988 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
990 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
992 Display current thread subject in a header line.
994 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
996 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
998 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
999 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1000 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1001 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1002 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1003 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1004 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1006 Vim interface improvements
1007 --------------------------
1008 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1010 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1011 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1016 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1018 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1019 ========================
1020 New command-line features
1021 -------------------------
1022 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1024 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1025 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1026 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1028 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1029 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1030 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1031 scripts. For example:
1033 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1034 <operations-on> "$file"
1037 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1039 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1040 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1041 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1042 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1043 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1044 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1046 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1048 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1049 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1050 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1051 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1053 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1055 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1056 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1057 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1058 default rather than Bcc.
1060 New library features
1061 --------------------
1062 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1064 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1065 notmuch_query_t object.
1069 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1071 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1072 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1073 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1074 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1075 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1076 notmuch customize interface.
1078 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1080 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1081 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1082 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1083 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1085 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1087 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1088 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1089 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1090 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1092 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1094 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1095 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1096 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1097 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1098 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1099 notmuch customize interface.
1101 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1103 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1104 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1105 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1106 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1107 notmuch customize interface.
1109 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1111 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1112 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1113 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1114 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1117 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1119 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1120 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1121 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1124 New build-system features
1125 -------------------------
1126 Various portability fixes have been applied
1128 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1129 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1130 more portable than ever before.
1132 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1134 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1135 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1136 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1138 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1139 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1140 automatically run ldconfig.
1142 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1143 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1144 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1146 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1147 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1148 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1149 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1151 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1153 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1154 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1155 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1156 used in the resulting Makefile.
1158 New test-suite features
1159 -----------------------
1160 New modularization of test suite.
1162 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1163 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1164 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1165 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1166 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1167 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1168 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1169 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1171 New testing of emacs interface.
1173 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1174 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1175 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1176 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1177 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1178 database via the FCC setting.
1182 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1184 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1185 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1186 persistent error of the form:
1188 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1190 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1191 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1193 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1195 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1196 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1197 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1199 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1201 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1202 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1203 parsing the notmuch results).
1205 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1207 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1209 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1210 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1211 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1215 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1217 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1218 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1219 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1220 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1221 the emacs interface.
1223 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1225 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1226 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1227 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1229 Python-binding fixes
1230 --------------------
1231 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1233 Debian-specific fixes
1234 ---------------------
1235 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1237 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1238 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1239 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1242 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1243 ==========================
1246 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1248 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1249 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1250 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1251 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1253 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1255 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1256 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1257 want notmuch to crash.
1261 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1263 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1264 directory does not exist.
1268 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1270 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1271 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1273 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1274 ========================
1275 New command-line features
1276 -------------------------
1277 User-configurable tags for new messages
1279 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1280 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1281 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1282 to specify this value.
1284 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1286 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1287 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1288 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1290 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1292 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1293 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1295 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1297 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1298 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1299 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1300 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1301 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1304 Indication of author names that match a search
1306 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1307 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1308 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1309 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1310 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1311 messages in the thread are listed first.
1313 New: Python bindings
1314 --------------------
1315 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1316 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1317 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1318 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1320 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1321 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1322 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1325 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1326 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1327 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1329 Emacs interface improvements
1330 ----------------------------
1331 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1333 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1334 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1335 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1336 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1337 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1338 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1339 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1340 but without any of the disadvantages).
1342 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1343 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1344 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1347 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1348 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1349 recommend instead running something like:
1351 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1353 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1354 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1355 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1358 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1360 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1361 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1362 tweaked by the user.
1364 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1365 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1366 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1369 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1370 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1371 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1374 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1376 This support currently relies on an external program,
1377 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1378 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1379 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1380 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1381 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1384 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1385 notmuch) is available via:
1387 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1389 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1390 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1391 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1393 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1395 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1396 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1397 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1398 making this automatic in a future release.
1400 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1402 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1403 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1404 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1405 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1406 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1407 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1410 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1412 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1413 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1414 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1416 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1418 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1419 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1420 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1422 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1423 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1424 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1425 other representation.
1427 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1428 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1431 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1433 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1434 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1435 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1437 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1438 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1439 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1441 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1443 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1444 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1445 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1446 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1447 to display the search result.
1449 More flexible handling of header visibility
1451 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1452 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1453 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1454 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1455 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1456 with the 'h' keybinding.
1458 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1459 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1460 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1462 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1464 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1466 Customizable formatting of search results
1468 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1469 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1470 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1472 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1474 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1476 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1480 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1482 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1483 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1484 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1485 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1490 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1492 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1493 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1495 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1497 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1498 accept are now all accepted.
1502 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1504 Better display of output from failed tests.
1506 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1507 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1509 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1510 ========================
1511 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1512 detailed release notes this time!
1514 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1515 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1517 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1518 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1519 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1520 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1526 Better guessing of From: header.
1528 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1529 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1530 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1531 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1532 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1535 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1537 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1538 guaranteed to match all messages.
1540 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1542 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1543 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1544 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1545 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1546 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1549 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1552 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1553 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1554 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1555 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1559 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1561 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1562 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1563 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1564 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1566 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1568 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1570 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1571 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1572 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1574 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1576 Previously, the user might see:
1578 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1582 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1584 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1585 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1586 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1587 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1589 Emacs client features
1590 ---------------------
1591 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1593 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1594 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1595 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1596 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1597 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1599 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1602 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1603 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1604 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1605 search with the '*' binding.
1607 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1609 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1610 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1613 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1615 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1616 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1617 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1619 Build-system features
1620 ---------------------
1621 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1623 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1625 We include actual support for:
1627 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1629 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1631 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1632 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1634 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1635 separate "make install-emacs".
1637 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1639 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1640 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1641 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1643 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1646 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1647 ========================
1648 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1650 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1651 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1653 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1654 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1655 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1656 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1657 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1658 tags from messages in a thread.