1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
17 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
19 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
20 tag in your query, for example:
22 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
24 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
25 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
27 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
28 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
30 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
32 Mail store folder/file ignore
34 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
35 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
36 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
38 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
39 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
41 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
43 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
44 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
52 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
53 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
54 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
55 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
57 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
59 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
60 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
62 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
65 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
66 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
67 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
69 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
73 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
75 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
77 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
78 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
80 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
82 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
83 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
84 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
85 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
86 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
87 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
91 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
92 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
93 of Mailing List Archives.
95 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
97 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
98 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
101 Show view archiving key binding changes
103 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
104 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
105 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
106 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
107 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
110 Support text/calendar MIME type
112 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
115 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
117 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
118 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
119 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
120 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
127 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
130 Python bindings changes
131 -----------------------
133 Python 3.2 compatibility
135 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
137 Added missing unicode conversions
139 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
140 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
141 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
146 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
148 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
149 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
150 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
152 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
153 ===========================
158 Fix error handling in python bindings.
160 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
161 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
162 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
163 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
165 Quote MML tags in replies
167 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
168 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
169 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
170 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
171 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
172 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
173 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
174 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
176 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
177 =========================
179 Command-Line Interface
180 ----------------------
184 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
185 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
186 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
187 importing new messages into the database.
189 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
191 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
192 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
193 sometimes. This is now fixed.
198 Automatic tag query optimization
200 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
201 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
202 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
204 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
206 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
207 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
208 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
213 Reduction of memory leaks
215 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
216 and fixed in this release.
223 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
224 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
225 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
228 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
230 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
231 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
232 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
235 Improvements in saved search management
237 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
238 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
239 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
241 Hooks for notmuch-hello
243 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
244 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
245 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
247 New face for crypto parts headers
249 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
250 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
251 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
254 Use space as default thousands separator
256 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
257 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
258 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
260 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
261 buttonized id: links.
263 New function notmuch-show-advance
265 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
266 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
267 be bound to SPC with:
269 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
271 Various performance improvements.
276 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
277 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
280 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
281 ===========================
286 Fix crash in python bindings.
288 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
289 for some, but not all users.
291 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
292 ===========================
299 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
300 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
303 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
304 =========================
306 New build and testing features
307 ------------------------------
309 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
310 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
311 prerequisites is improved.
313 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
315 New command-line features
316 -------------------------
318 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
320 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
321 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
324 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
326 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
327 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
328 favour of using stdout.
330 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
332 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
333 the number of results shown.
335 Add "notmuch count --output" option
337 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
338 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
340 New emacs UI features
341 ---------------------
343 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
345 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
346 starting with "tag:".
348 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
350 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
351 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
353 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
355 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
357 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
359 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
360 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
365 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
367 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
369 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
370 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
371 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
372 requires a database rebuild:
374 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
375 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
377 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
379 New collection of add-on tools
380 ------------------------------
382 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
383 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
384 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
387 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
389 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
390 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
391 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
393 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
394 ========================
396 New, general features
397 ---------------------
399 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
401 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
402 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
403 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
404 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
405 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
412 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
413 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
415 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
419 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
420 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
421 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
424 Python bindings changes
425 -----------------------
427 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
429 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
430 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
431 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
432 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
433 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
434 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
436 Ruby bindings changes
437 ---------------------
439 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
440 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
441 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
442 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
447 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
449 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
450 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
452 Reply formatting cleanup
453 ------------------------
455 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
456 MIME parts are being suppressed.
458 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
459 ========================
461 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
463 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
464 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
465 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
466 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
469 Improved Build system portability
471 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
472 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
473 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
475 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
477 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
479 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
481 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
482 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
483 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
485 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
486 ========================
488 Vim interface improvements
489 --------------------------
491 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
493 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
494 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
495 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
496 * fix from list reformatting in search view
497 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
499 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
501 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
502 * fix compose temp file name
504 Python Bindings changes
505 -----------------------
507 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
509 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
510 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
512 Build-System improvements
513 ------------------------
515 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
517 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
520 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
521 ==========================
526 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
528 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
529 people running gcc 4.4.5.
531 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
532 =======================
533 New, general features
534 ---------------------
535 Folder-based searching
537 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
538 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
539 storage). The syntax is as follows:
543 For example, one might use things such as:
549 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
550 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
552 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
553 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
554 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
555 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
557 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
558 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
559 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
562 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
563 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
565 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
569 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
570 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
571 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
573 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
575 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
576 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
578 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
579 notmuch will receive these tags.
581 New command-line features
582 -------------------------
583 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
585 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
586 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
588 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
590 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
591 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
592 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
594 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
596 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
597 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
598 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
599 which parts a signature part applies).
601 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
603 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
604 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
605 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
606 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
607 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
610 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
612 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
613 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
614 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
615 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
616 by translating it internally to the new call.
618 Performance improvements
619 ------------------------
620 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
622 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
623 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
624 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
626 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
627 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
629 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
631 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
632 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
633 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
635 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
636 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
637 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
638 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
640 Faster initial indexing
642 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
643 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
644 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
646 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
648 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
649 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
650 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
651 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
653 New emacs-interface features
654 ----------------------------
656 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
658 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
659 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
660 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
661 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
662 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
663 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
665 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
667 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
668 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
669 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
670 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
672 User-selectable From address
674 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
675 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
676 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
677 will prompt for the from address to use.
679 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
680 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
681 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
683 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
684 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
685 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
688 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
690 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
691 its parent, the subject is not shown.
693 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
695 When a message contains a line looking something like:
697 ----- Original Message -----
699 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
700 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
701 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
702 citations work much like conventional citations.
704 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
706 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
707 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
708 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
709 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
710 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
712 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
713 Notmuch After Tag Hook
715 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
717 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
718 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
719 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
721 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
723 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
724 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
725 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
726 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
727 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
729 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
731 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
734 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
736 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
738 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
739 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
741 Vim interface improvements
742 --------------------------
743 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
745 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
746 * Implementing archive in show view
747 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
748 * Add delete commands
751 Bindings improvements
752 ---------------------
753 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
755 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
756 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
758 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
759 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
762 - Message().get_filenames(),
763 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
764 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
766 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
767 These allow, for example:
770 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
772 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
777 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
778 Use len(list(Messages())) or
779 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
781 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
783 New build-system features
784 -------------------------
785 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
787 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
788 the configure script from some other directory:
795 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
797 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
798 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
799 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
800 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
801 manual invocation of configure.
803 New test-suite feature
804 ----------------------
805 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
807 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
808 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
809 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
810 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
811 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
814 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
816 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
817 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
818 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
819 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
820 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
821 are updated to take advantage of this.
823 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
825 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
826 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
827 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
828 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
833 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
835 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
836 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
837 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
839 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
841 This fixed a bug where a search for:
843 to:user@elsewhere.com
845 would incorrectly match a message sent:
847 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
849 Fix --output=json when search has no results
851 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
852 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
853 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
856 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
857 from the Received headers in some cases.
859 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
860 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
862 Cleaned up several memory leaks
864 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
866 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
868 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
869 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
870 interface and were never intended to be exported.
872 Emacs-interface bug fixes
873 -------------------------
874 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
876 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
877 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
878 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
880 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
882 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
883 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
884 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
887 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
889 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
890 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
891 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
892 fixed to avoid this bug.
894 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
896 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
897 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
899 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
900 ========================
901 New, general features
902 ---------------------
903 Maildir-flag synchronization
905 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
906 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
915 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
917 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
918 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
919 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
920 renamed with an 'R' flag).
922 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
923 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
924 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
925 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
928 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
930 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
931 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
932 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
934 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
935 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
937 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
938 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
940 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
941 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
942 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
946 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
948 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
949 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
950 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
951 notmuch_message_get_filename).
953 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
954 message with the new function:
956 notmuch_message_get_filenames
958 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
959 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
960 all available filenames for a given message.
962 New command-line features
963 -------------------------
964 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
966 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
967 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
968 access to the mail store itself.
970 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
971 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
972 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
973 name of a script containing:
975 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
977 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
978 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
983 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
985 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
987 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
989 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
990 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
991 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
992 now produces nothing).
994 Emacs interface improvements
995 ----------------------------
996 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
998 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
1000 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
1002 Display current thread subject in a header line.
1004 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
1006 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
1008 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1009 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1010 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1011 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1012 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1013 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1014 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1016 Vim interface improvements
1017 --------------------------
1018 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
1020 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1021 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1026 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1028 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1029 ========================
1030 New command-line features
1031 -------------------------
1032 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1034 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1035 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1036 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1038 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1039 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1040 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1041 scripts. For example:
1043 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1044 <operations-on> "$file"
1047 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1049 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1050 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1051 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1052 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1053 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1054 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1056 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1058 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1059 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1060 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1061 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1063 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1065 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1066 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1067 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1068 default rather than Bcc.
1070 New library features
1071 --------------------
1072 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1074 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1075 notmuch_query_t object.
1079 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1081 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1082 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1083 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1084 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1085 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1086 notmuch customize interface.
1088 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1090 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1091 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1092 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1093 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1095 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1097 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1098 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1099 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1100 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1102 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1104 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1105 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1106 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1107 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1108 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1109 notmuch customize interface.
1111 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1113 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1114 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1115 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1116 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1117 notmuch customize interface.
1119 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1121 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1122 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1123 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1124 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1127 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1129 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1130 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1131 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1134 New build-system features
1135 -------------------------
1136 Various portability fixes have been applied
1138 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1139 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1140 more portable than ever before.
1142 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1144 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1145 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1146 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1148 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1149 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1150 automatically run ldconfig.
1152 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1153 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1154 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1156 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1157 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1158 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1159 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1161 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1163 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1164 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1165 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1166 used in the resulting Makefile.
1168 New test-suite features
1169 -----------------------
1170 New modularization of test suite.
1172 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1173 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1174 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1175 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1176 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1177 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1178 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1179 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1181 New testing of emacs interface.
1183 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1184 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1185 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1186 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1187 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1188 database via the FCC setting.
1192 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1194 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1195 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1196 persistent error of the form:
1198 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1200 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1201 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1203 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1205 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1206 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1207 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1209 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1211 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1212 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1213 parsing the notmuch results).
1215 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1217 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1219 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1220 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1221 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1225 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1227 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1228 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1229 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1230 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1231 the emacs interface.
1233 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1235 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1236 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1237 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1239 Python-binding fixes
1240 --------------------
1241 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1243 Debian-specific fixes
1244 ---------------------
1245 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1247 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1248 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1249 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1252 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1253 ==========================
1256 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1258 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1259 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1260 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1261 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1263 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1265 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1266 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1267 want notmuch to crash.
1271 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1273 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1274 directory does not exist.
1278 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1280 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1281 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1283 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1284 ========================
1285 New command-line features
1286 -------------------------
1287 User-configurable tags for new messages
1289 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1290 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1291 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1292 to specify this value.
1294 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1296 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1297 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1298 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1300 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1302 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1303 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1305 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1307 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1308 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1309 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1310 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1311 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1314 Indication of author names that match a search
1316 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1317 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1318 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1319 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1320 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1321 messages in the thread are listed first.
1323 New: Python bindings
1324 --------------------
1325 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1326 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1327 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1328 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1330 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1331 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1332 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1335 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1336 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1337 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1339 Emacs interface improvements
1340 ----------------------------
1341 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1343 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1344 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1345 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1346 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1347 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1348 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1349 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1350 but without any of the disadvantages).
1352 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1353 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1354 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1357 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1358 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1359 recommend instead running something like:
1361 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1363 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1364 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1365 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1368 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1370 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1371 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1372 tweaked by the user.
1374 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1375 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1376 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1379 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1380 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1381 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1384 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1386 This support currently relies on an external program,
1387 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1388 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1389 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1390 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1391 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1394 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1395 notmuch) is available via:
1397 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1399 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1400 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1401 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1403 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1405 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1406 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1407 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1408 making this automatic in a future release.
1410 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1412 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1413 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1414 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1415 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1416 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1417 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1420 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1422 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1423 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1424 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1426 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1428 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1429 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1430 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1432 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1433 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1434 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1435 other representation.
1437 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1438 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1441 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1443 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1444 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1445 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1447 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1448 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1449 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1451 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1453 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1454 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1455 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1456 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1457 to display the search result.
1459 More flexible handling of header visibility
1461 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1462 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1463 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1464 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1465 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1466 with the 'h' keybinding.
1468 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1469 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1470 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1472 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1474 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1476 Customizable formatting of search results
1478 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1479 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1480 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1482 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1484 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1486 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1490 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1492 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1493 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1494 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1495 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1500 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1502 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1503 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1505 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1507 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1508 accept are now all accepted.
1512 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1514 Better display of output from failed tests.
1516 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1517 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1519 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1520 ========================
1521 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1522 detailed release notes this time!
1524 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1525 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1527 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1528 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1529 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1530 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1536 Better guessing of From: header.
1538 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1539 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1540 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1541 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1542 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1545 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1547 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1548 guaranteed to match all messages.
1550 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1552 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1553 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1554 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1555 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1556 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1559 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1562 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1563 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1564 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1565 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1569 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1571 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1572 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1573 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1574 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1576 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1578 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1580 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1581 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1582 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1584 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1586 Previously, the user might see:
1588 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1592 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1594 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1595 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1596 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1597 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1599 Emacs client features
1600 ---------------------
1601 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1603 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1604 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1605 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1606 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1607 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1609 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1612 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1613 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1614 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1615 search with the '*' binding.
1617 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1619 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1620 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1623 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1625 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1626 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1627 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1629 Build-system features
1630 ---------------------
1631 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1633 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1635 We include actual support for:
1637 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1639 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1641 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1642 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1644 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1645 separate "make install-emacs".
1647 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1649 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1650 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1651 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1653 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1656 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1657 ========================
1658 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1660 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1661 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1663 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1664 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1665 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1666 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1667 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1668 tags from messages in a thread.