1 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2 ==========================
5 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
7 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
8 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
9 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
10 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
14 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
16 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
17 directory does not exist.
21 Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches
23 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
24 under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch
25 customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and
26 treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive
29 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
31 This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be
32 customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user
33 might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to
34 automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message
35 Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface.
39 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
41 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
42 final linking of notmuch would fail.
44 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
45 ========================
46 New command-line features
47 -------------------------
48 User-configurable tags for new messages
50 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
51 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
52 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
53 to specify this value.
55 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
57 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
58 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
59 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
61 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
63 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
64 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
66 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
68 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
69 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
70 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
71 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
72 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
75 Indication of author names that match a search
77 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
78 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
79 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
80 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
81 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
82 messages in the thread are listed first.
86 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
87 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
88 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
89 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
91 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
92 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
93 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
96 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
97 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
98 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
100 Emacs interface improvements
101 ----------------------------
102 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
104 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
105 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
106 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
107 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
108 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
109 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
110 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
111 but without any of the disadvantages).
113 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
114 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
115 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
118 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
119 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
120 recommend instead running something like:
122 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
124 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
125 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
126 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
129 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
131 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
132 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
135 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
136 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
137 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
140 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
141 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
142 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
145 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
147 This support currently relies on an external program,
148 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
149 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
150 already been written that generate address completions by doing
151 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
152 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
155 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
156 notmuch) is available via:
158 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
160 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
161 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
162 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
164 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
166 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
167 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
168 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
169 making this automatic in a future release.
171 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
173 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
174 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
175 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
176 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
177 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
178 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
181 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
183 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
184 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
185 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
187 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
189 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
190 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
191 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
193 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
194 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
195 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
196 other representation.
198 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
199 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
202 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
204 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
205 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
206 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
208 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
209 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
210 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
212 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
214 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
215 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
216 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
217 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
218 to display the search result.
220 More flexible handling of header visibility
222 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
223 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
224 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
225 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
226 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
227 with the 'h' keybinding.
229 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
230 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
231 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
233 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
235 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
237 Customizable formatting of search results
239 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
240 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
241 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
243 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
245 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
247 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
251 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
253 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
254 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
255 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
256 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
261 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
263 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
264 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
266 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
268 For example, those that the gentoo build scripts expect configure to
269 accept are now all accepted.
273 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
275 Better display of output from failed tests.
277 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
278 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
280 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
281 ========================
282 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
283 detailed release notes this time!
285 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
286 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
288 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
289 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
290 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
291 notmuch in subsequent releases.
297 Better guessing of From: header.
299 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
300 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
301 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
302 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
303 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
306 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
308 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
309 guaranteed to match all messages.
311 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
313 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
314 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
315 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
316 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
317 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
320 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
323 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
324 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
325 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
326 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
330 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
332 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
333 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
334 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
335 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
337 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
339 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
341 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
342 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
343 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
345 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
347 Previously, the user might see:
349 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
353 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
355 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
356 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
357 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
358 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
360 Emacs client features
361 ---------------------
362 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
364 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
365 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
366 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
367 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
368 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
370 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
373 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
374 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
375 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
376 search with th '*' binding.
378 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
380 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
381 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
384 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
386 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
387 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
388 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
390 Build-system features
391 ---------------------
392 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
394 Add support to configure for many standard options.
396 We include actual support for:
398 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
400 And accept and silently ignore several more:
402 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
403 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
405 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
406 separate "make install-emacs".
408 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
410 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
411 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
412 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
414 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
417 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
418 ========================
419 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
421 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
422 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
424 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
425 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
426 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
427 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
428 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
429 tags from messages in a thread.
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