1 Notmuch 0.17~rc2 (2013-xx-yy)
2 =============================
4 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
5 ---------------------------------------
7 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
8 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
9 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
10 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
11 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
12 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
13 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
17 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
18 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
20 Command-Line Interface
21 ----------------------
23 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
25 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
26 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
27 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
28 print for each message.
30 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
31 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
32 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
33 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
35 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
37 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
38 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
39 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
41 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
43 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
44 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
45 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
46 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
48 `notmuch compact` command
50 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
51 functionality through a more convenient interface than
52 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
53 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
54 move the compacted database into place.
59 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
61 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
62 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
63 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
64 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
65 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
70 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
72 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
73 search, show and tree mode itself)
75 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
78 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
79 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
81 Customising `notmuch-tree`
83 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
84 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
85 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
86 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
87 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
88 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
89 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
91 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
93 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
94 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
95 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
96 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
97 thread when the search was performed.
99 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
101 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
102 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
103 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
105 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
107 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
108 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
111 Built-in help improvements
113 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
114 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
115 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
117 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
119 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
120 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
121 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
123 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
125 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
126 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
128 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
130 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
131 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
132 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
133 to move some of them to the common keymap.
135 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
137 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
138 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
139 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
140 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
142 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
144 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
145 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
146 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
147 the body part of the message.
149 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
150 =========================
152 Command-Line Interface
153 ----------------------
155 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
157 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
158 folder and notmuch index.
160 `notmuch count --batch` option
162 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
163 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
165 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
167 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
168 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
169 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
172 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
174 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
175 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
176 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
177 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
178 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
181 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
183 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
184 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
186 Top level option to specify configuration file
188 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
189 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
191 Bash command-line completion
193 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
194 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
195 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
196 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
197 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
198 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
199 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
200 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
201 bash-completion package.
203 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
208 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
210 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
211 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
212 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
213 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
214 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
215 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
216 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
217 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
219 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
221 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
222 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
223 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
225 Key bindings for next/previous thread
227 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
228 previous thread in the search results.
230 Better handling of errors in search buffers
232 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
233 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
235 Faster search and show
237 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
238 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
239 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
240 threads should show faster.
244 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
245 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
246 in question was now removed from this release.
251 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
252 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
257 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
259 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
260 ===========================
265 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
267 Internal test framework changes
268 -------------------------------
270 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
273 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
274 ===========================
276 Internal test framework changes
277 -------------------------------
279 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
280 build failures in non-interactive environments.
282 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
283 =========================
288 Date range search support
290 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
291 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
292 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
293 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
294 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
297 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
299 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
300 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
301 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
302 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
303 but may be removed in a future release.
305 Command-Line Interface
306 ----------------------
308 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
310 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
311 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
313 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
315 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
316 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
317 officially deprecated.
319 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
321 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
322 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
323 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
325 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
327 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
328 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
331 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
332 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
335 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
337 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
338 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
339 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
341 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
343 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
344 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
345 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
347 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
349 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
350 output separated by null characters rather than newline
351 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
352 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
357 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
359 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
360 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
361 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
362 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
364 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
366 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
367 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
368 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
369 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
370 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
371 the behavior of this, see
372 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
373 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
375 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
376 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
377 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
379 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
381 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
382 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
385 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
387 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
388 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
389 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
390 simply displayed in place of the message.
392 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
394 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
395 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
397 Improved text/calendar content handling
399 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
400 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
401 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
402 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
404 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
406 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
407 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
408 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
409 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
411 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
413 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
414 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
415 for HTML email containing images.
417 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
419 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
421 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
423 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
426 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
428 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
429 the point where it was.
431 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
433 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
434 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
435 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
436 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
437 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
439 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
441 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
442 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
443 thread instead of the message id.
445 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
446 -----------------------------
448 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
449 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
450 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
451 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
452 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
453 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
454 further details and installation.
459 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
461 Internal test framework changes
462 -------------------------------
464 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
466 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
467 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
468 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
469 can result in buggy behavior.
471 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
472 =========================
477 Maildir tag synchronization
479 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
480 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
481 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
482 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
483 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
484 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
487 Command-Line Interface
488 ----------------------
490 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
491 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
492 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
493 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
494 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
500 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
502 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
504 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
505 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
506 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
508 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
510 It is now possible to embed newlines in
511 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
514 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
516 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
517 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
518 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
519 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
520 inside the result or message.
522 Search now uses the JSON format internally
524 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
525 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
527 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
528 user-specified formatting
530 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
531 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
532 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
533 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
534 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
536 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
537 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
539 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
540 ===========================
545 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
546 compilation error for this contrib package.
548 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
549 ===========================
554 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
556 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
557 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
558 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
559 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
561 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
562 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
565 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
566 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
567 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
568 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
571 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
573 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
576 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
577 =========================
579 Command-Line Interface
580 ----------------------
584 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
585 for a reply message and full information about the original message
586 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
587 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
589 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
590 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
591 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
592 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
596 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
597 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
599 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
600 tag in your query, for example:
602 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
604 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
605 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
607 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
608 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
610 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
612 Raw show format changes
614 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
615 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
616 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
617 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
618 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
619 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
620 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
621 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
623 Listing configuration items
625 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
631 Changes to tagging interface
633 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
634 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
635 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
636 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
637 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
638 for more information.
640 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
641 may need to update in custom configurations.
643 Reply improvement using the JSON format
645 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
646 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
647 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
648 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
651 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
652 -----------------------------
654 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
655 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
656 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
657 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
658 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
659 contrib/ from now on.
664 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
665 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
667 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
668 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
670 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
671 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
672 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
674 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
675 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
677 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
678 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
679 returning the new database object or directory object.
686 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
687 compatible with go 1.
689 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
690 =========================
692 Command-Line Interface
693 ----------------------
697 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
698 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
699 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
700 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
702 Mail store folder/file ignore
704 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
705 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
706 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
708 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
709 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
711 Unified help and manual pages
713 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
714 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
717 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
719 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
720 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
728 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
729 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
730 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
731 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
733 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
735 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
736 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
738 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
741 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
742 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
743 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
745 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
747 should be changed to:
749 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
751 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
753 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
754 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
756 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
758 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
759 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
760 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
761 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
762 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
763 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
767 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
768 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
769 of Mailing List Archives.
771 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
773 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
774 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
777 Show view archiving key binding changes
779 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
780 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
781 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
782 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
783 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
786 Support text/calendar MIME type
788 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
791 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
793 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
794 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
795 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
796 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
798 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
800 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
801 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
802 messages blue by default in the search view.
806 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
807 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
814 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
817 Python bindings changes
818 -----------------------
820 Python 3.2 compatibility
822 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
824 Added missing unicode conversions
826 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
827 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
828 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
833 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
835 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
836 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
837 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
838 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
839 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
841 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
842 ===========================
847 Fix error handling in python bindings
849 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
850 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
851 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
852 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
854 Quote MML tags in replies
856 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
857 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
858 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
859 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
860 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
861 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
862 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
863 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
865 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
866 =========================
868 Command-Line Interface
869 ----------------------
873 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
874 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
875 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
876 importing new messages into the database.
878 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
880 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
881 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
882 sometimes. This is now fixed.
887 Automatic tag query optimization
889 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
890 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
891 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
893 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
895 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
896 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
897 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
902 Reduction of memory leaks
904 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
905 and fixed in this release.
912 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
913 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
914 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
917 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
919 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
920 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
921 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
924 Improvements in saved search management
926 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
927 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
928 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
930 Hooks for notmuch-hello
932 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
933 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
934 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
936 New face for crypto parts headers
938 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
939 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
940 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
943 Use space as default thousands separator
945 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
946 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
947 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
949 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
952 New function notmuch-show-advance
954 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
955 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
956 be bound to SPC with:
958 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
960 Various performance improvements
965 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
966 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
969 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
970 ===========================
975 Fix crash in python bindings
977 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
978 for some, but not all users.
980 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
981 ===========================
986 Fix `--help` argument
988 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
989 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
990 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
992 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
993 =========================
995 New build and testing features
996 ------------------------------
998 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
999 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1000 prerequisites is improved.
1002 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1004 New command-line features
1005 -------------------------
1007 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1009 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1010 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1013 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1015 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1016 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1017 favour of using stdout.
1019 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1021 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1022 limit the number of results shown.
1024 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1026 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1027 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1030 New emacs UI features
1031 ---------------------
1033 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1035 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1036 starting with "tag:".
1038 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1040 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1041 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1043 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1045 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1047 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1049 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1050 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1055 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1057 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1059 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1060 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1061 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1062 requires a database rebuild:
1064 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1065 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1067 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1069 New collection of add-on tools
1070 ------------------------------
1072 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1073 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1074 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1077 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1079 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1080 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1081 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1083 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1084 ========================
1086 New, general features
1087 ---------------------
1089 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1091 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1092 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1093 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1094 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1095 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1102 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1103 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1105 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1109 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1110 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1111 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1114 Python bindings changes
1115 -----------------------
1117 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1119 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1120 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1121 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1122 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1123 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1124 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1126 Ruby bindings changes
1127 ---------------------
1129 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1130 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1131 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1132 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1137 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1139 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1140 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1142 Reply formatting cleanup
1143 ------------------------
1145 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1146 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1148 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1149 ========================
1151 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1153 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1154 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1155 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1156 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1159 Improved Build system portability
1161 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1162 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1163 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1165 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1167 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1169 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1171 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1172 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1173 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1175 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1176 ========================
1178 Vim interface improvements
1179 --------------------------
1181 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1183 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1184 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1185 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1186 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1187 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1189 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1191 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1192 * fix compose temp file name
1194 Python Bindings changes
1195 -----------------------
1197 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1199 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1200 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1202 Build-System improvements
1203 -------------------------
1205 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1207 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1210 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1211 ==========================
1216 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1218 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1219 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1221 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1222 =======================
1224 New, general features
1225 ---------------------
1227 Folder-based searching
1229 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1230 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1231 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1235 For example, one might use things such as:
1241 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1242 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1244 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1245 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1246 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1247 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1249 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1250 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1251 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1254 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1255 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1257 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1259 Support for PGP/MIME
1261 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1262 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1263 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1265 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1267 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1268 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1270 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1271 notmuch will receive these tags.
1273 New command-line features
1274 -------------------------
1276 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1278 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1279 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1281 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1283 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1284 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1285 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1287 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1289 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1290 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1291 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1292 which parts a signature part applies).
1294 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1296 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1297 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1298 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1299 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1300 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1303 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1305 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1306 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1307 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1308 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1309 by translating it internally to the new call.
1311 Performance improvements
1312 ------------------------
1314 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1316 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1317 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1318 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1320 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1321 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1323 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1325 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1326 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1327 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1329 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1330 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1331 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1332 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1334 Faster initial indexing
1336 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1337 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1338 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1340 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1342 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1343 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1344 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1345 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1347 New emacs-interface features
1348 ----------------------------
1350 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1352 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1353 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1354 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1355 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1356 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1357 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1359 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1361 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1362 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1363 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1364 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1366 User-selectable From address
1368 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1369 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1370 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1371 will prompt for the from address to use.
1373 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1374 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1375 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1377 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1378 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1379 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1382 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1384 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1385 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1387 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1389 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1391 ----- Original Message -----
1393 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1394 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1395 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1396 citations work much like conventional citations.
1398 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1400 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1401 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1402 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1403 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1404 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1406 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1407 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1409 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1411 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1412 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1413 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1415 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1417 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1418 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1419 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1420 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1421 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1423 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1425 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1428 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1430 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1432 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1434 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1437 Vim interface improvements
1438 --------------------------
1440 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1442 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1443 * Implementing archive in show view
1444 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1445 * Add delete commands
1448 Bindings improvements
1449 ---------------------
1451 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1453 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1454 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1456 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1458 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1462 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1463 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1464 `list(Messages)` works now
1465 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1467 These allow, for example:
1469 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1471 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1473 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1479 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1481 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1484 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1486 New build-system features
1487 -------------------------
1489 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1491 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1492 the configure script from some other directory:
1499 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1501 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1502 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1503 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1504 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1505 manual invocation of configure.
1507 New test-suite feature
1508 ----------------------
1510 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1512 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1513 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1514 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1515 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1516 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1519 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1521 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1522 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1523 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1524 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1525 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1526 are updated to take advantage of this.
1528 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1530 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1531 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1532 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1533 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1539 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1541 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1542 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1543 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1545 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1547 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1549 to:user@elsewhere.com
1551 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1553 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1555 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1557 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1558 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1559 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1562 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1563 from the Received headers in some cases
1565 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1566 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1568 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1570 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1572 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1574 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1575 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1576 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1578 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1579 -------------------------
1581 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1583 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1584 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1585 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1587 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1589 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1590 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1591 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1594 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1596 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1597 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1598 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1599 fixed to avoid this bug.
1601 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1603 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1604 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1606 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1607 ========================
1609 New, general features
1610 ---------------------
1612 Maildir-flag synchronization
1614 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1615 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1624 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1626 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1627 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1628 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1629 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1631 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1632 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1633 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1634 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1637 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1639 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1640 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1641 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1643 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1644 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1646 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1647 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1649 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1650 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1651 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1653 New library features
1654 --------------------
1656 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1658 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1659 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1660 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1661 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1663 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1664 message with the new function:
1666 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1668 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1669 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1670 over all available filenames for a given message.
1672 New command-line features
1673 -------------------------
1675 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1677 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1678 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1679 access to the mail store itself.
1681 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1682 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1683 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1684 name of a script containing:
1686 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1688 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1689 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1695 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1697 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1699 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1701 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1702 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1703 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1704 now produces nothing).
1706 Emacs interface improvements
1707 ----------------------------
1709 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1711 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1713 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1715 Display current thread subject in a header line
1717 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1719 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1721 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1722 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1723 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1724 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1725 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1726 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1727 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1729 Vim interface improvements
1730 --------------------------
1732 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1734 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1735 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1741 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1743 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1744 ========================
1746 New command-line features
1747 -------------------------
1749 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1751 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1752 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1753 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1755 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1756 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1757 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1758 scripts. For example:
1760 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1761 <operations-on> "$file"
1764 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1766 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1767 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1768 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1769 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1770 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1771 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1773 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1775 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1776 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1777 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1778 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1780 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1782 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1783 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1784 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1785 default rather than Bcc.
1787 New library features
1788 --------------------
1790 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1792 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1793 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1798 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1800 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1801 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1802 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1803 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1804 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1805 notmuch customize interface.
1807 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1809 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1810 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1811 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1812 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1814 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1816 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1817 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1818 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1819 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1821 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1823 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1824 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1825 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1826 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1827 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1828 notmuch customize interface.
1830 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1832 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1833 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1834 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1835 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1836 notmuch customize interface.
1838 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1840 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1841 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1842 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1843 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1846 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1848 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1849 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1850 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1853 New build-system features
1854 -------------------------
1856 Various portability fixes have been applied
1858 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1859 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1860 more portable than ever before.
1862 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1864 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1865 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1866 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1868 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1869 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1870 automatically run ldconfig.
1872 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1873 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1874 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1876 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1877 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1878 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1879 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1881 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1883 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1884 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1885 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1886 used in the resulting Makefile.
1888 New test-suite features
1889 -----------------------
1891 New modularization of test suite
1893 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1894 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1895 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1896 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1897 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1898 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1899 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1900 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1902 New testing of emacs interface
1904 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1905 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1906 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1907 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1908 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1909 database via the FCC setting.
1914 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1916 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1917 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1918 persistent error of the form:
1920 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1922 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1923 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1925 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1927 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1928 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1929 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1931 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1933 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1934 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1935 parsing the notmuch results).
1937 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1939 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1942 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1943 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1944 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1949 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1951 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1952 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1953 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1954 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1955 the emacs interface.
1957 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1959 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1960 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1961 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1963 Python-binding fixes
1964 --------------------
1966 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1968 Debian-specific fixes
1969 ---------------------
1971 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1973 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1974 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1975 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1978 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1979 ==========================
1984 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1986 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1987 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1988 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1989 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1991 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1993 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1994 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1995 want notmuch to crash.
2000 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2002 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2003 directory does not exist
2008 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2010 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2011 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2013 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2014 ========================
2016 New command-line features
2017 -------------------------
2019 User-configurable tags for new messages
2021 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2022 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2023 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2024 to specify this value.
2026 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2028 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2029 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2030 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2032 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2034 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2035 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2037 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2039 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2040 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2041 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2042 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2043 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2046 Indication of author names that match a search
2048 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2049 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2050 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2051 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2052 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2053 messages in the thread are listed first.
2055 New: Python bindings
2056 --------------------
2058 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2059 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2060 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2061 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2063 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2064 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2065 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2068 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2069 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2070 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2072 Emacs interface improvements
2073 ----------------------------
2075 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2077 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2078 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2079 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2080 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2081 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2082 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2083 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2084 but without any of the disadvantages).
2086 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2087 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2088 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2091 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2092 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2093 instead running something like:
2095 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2097 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2098 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2099 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2102 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2104 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2105 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2106 tweaked by the user.
2108 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2109 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2110 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2113 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2114 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2115 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2118 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2120 This support currently relies on an external program,
2121 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2122 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2123 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2124 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2125 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2128 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2129 notmuch) is available via:
2131 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2133 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2134 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2135 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2137 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2139 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2140 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2141 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2142 making this automatic in a future release.
2144 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2146 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2147 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2148 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2149 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2150 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2151 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2154 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2156 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2157 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2158 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2160 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2162 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2163 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2164 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2166 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2167 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2168 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2169 other representation.
2171 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2172 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2175 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2177 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2178 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2179 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2181 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2182 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2183 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2185 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2187 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2188 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2189 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2190 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2191 to display the search result.
2193 More flexible handling of header visibility
2195 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2196 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2197 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2198 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2199 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2200 with the 'h' keybinding.
2202 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2203 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2204 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2206 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2208 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2210 Customizable formatting of search results
2212 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2213 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2214 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2216 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2218 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2220 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2225 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2227 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2228 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2229 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2230 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2236 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2238 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2239 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2241 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2243 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2244 accept are now all accepted.
2249 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2251 Better display of output from failed tests
2253 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2254 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2256 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2257 ========================
2259 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2260 detailed release notes this time!
2262 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2263 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2265 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2266 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2267 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2268 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2275 Better guessing of From: header
2277 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2278 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2279 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2280 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2281 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2284 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2286 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2287 guaranteed to match all messages.
2289 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2291 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2292 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2293 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2294 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2295 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2298 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2301 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2302 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2303 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2304 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2309 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2311 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2312 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2313 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2314 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2316 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2318 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2320 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2321 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2322 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2324 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2326 Previously, the user might see:
2328 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2332 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2334 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2335 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2336 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2337 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2339 Emacs client features
2340 ---------------------
2342 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2344 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2345 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2346 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2347 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2348 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2350 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2353 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2354 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2355 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2356 search with the '*' binding.
2358 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2360 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2361 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2364 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2366 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2367 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2368 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2370 Build-system features
2371 ---------------------
2373 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2375 Add support to configure for many standard options
2377 We include actual support for:
2379 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2381 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2383 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2384 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2386 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2387 separate "make install-emacs"
2389 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2391 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2392 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2393 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2395 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2398 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2399 ========================
2401 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2403 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2404 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2406 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2407 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2408 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2409 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2410 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2411 tags from messages in a thread.
2418 indent-tabs-mode: nil