1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
9 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
10 parts are now included in replies.
12 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
13 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
14 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
15 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
17 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
19 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
21 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
23 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
24 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
25 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
26 forwards only the current message.
28 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
30 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
31 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
32 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
33 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
34 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
35 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
36 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
37 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
40 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
41 longer generate empty buffers
43 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
44 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
45 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
46 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
47 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
52 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
53 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
54 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
60 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
61 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
62 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
63 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
64 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
65 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
67 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
68 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
69 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
70 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
71 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
72 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
74 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
75 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
77 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
78 =========================
83 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
86 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
88 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
89 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
90 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
92 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
95 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
96 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
97 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
99 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
101 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
102 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
103 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
104 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
105 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
106 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
111 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
112 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
115 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
118 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
120 Command Line Interface
121 ----------------------
123 Database revision tracking
125 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
126 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
127 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
128 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
130 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
132 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
133 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
134 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
135 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
136 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
137 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
138 manual page for further information.
143 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
145 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
146 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
148 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
150 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
151 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
152 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
154 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
156 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
158 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
159 customization as well.
161 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
163 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
165 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
167 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
169 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
170 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
171 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
172 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
174 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
176 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
177 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
178 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
179 this variable to 10000.
184 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
185 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
187 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
189 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
190 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
191 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
192 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
193 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
194 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
195 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
196 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
197 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
200 Database revision tracking
202 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
203 query parser and the new function
204 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
206 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
210 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
211 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
212 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
213 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
218 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
220 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
221 ===========================
226 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
228 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
229 ===========================
234 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
236 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
237 =========================
239 Command-Line Interface
240 ----------------------
242 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
244 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
245 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
246 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
248 Path to gpg is now configurable
250 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
251 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
256 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
258 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
263 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
268 Support messages without Message-IDs.
273 Undeprecate single message mboxes
275 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
276 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
278 New error logging facility
280 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
281 output formerly printed to stderr.
283 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
285 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
287 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
289 Fix for rounding of seconds
294 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
296 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
297 docmumentation has been removed.
299 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
301 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
302 some material from the relicensed wiki.
307 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
308 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
309 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
314 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
315 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
316 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
317 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
318 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
319 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
322 git checkout config origin/config
324 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
326 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
327 =========================
332 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
333 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
334 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
335 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
336 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
337 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
338 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
340 Command-Line Interface
341 ----------------------
343 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
345 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
346 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
347 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
348 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
349 script callers should still check the return value.
351 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
353 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
354 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
355 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
356 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
357 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
358 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
359 and returning success even if indexing fails).
361 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
363 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
364 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
365 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
367 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
369 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
370 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
371 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
372 currently unmaintained.
374 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
376 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
377 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
378 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
379 have at least `N` files associated with them.
381 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
383 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
384 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
385 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
386 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
387 count of duplicate addresses.
392 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
394 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
395 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
396 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
399 Improved handling of the unread tag
401 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
402 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
403 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
404 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
405 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
406 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
407 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
409 Expanded default saved search settings
411 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
412 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
414 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
416 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
417 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
418 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
420 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
422 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
423 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
424 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
425 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
426 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
427 the variable for details.
432 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
434 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
435 Representing these independently of the database version number will
436 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
437 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
439 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
441 Previously, library users were required to call
442 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
443 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
444 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
445 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
446 too out of date for that API.
448 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
450 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
451 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
452 atomic section will be aborted.
454 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
455 `notmuch_database_destroy`
457 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
459 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
460 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
461 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
462 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
463 messages into the same thread.
468 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
469 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
470 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
471 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
472 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
473 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
478 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
479 from the config file. Use something like:
483 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
484 "footer": "</body></html>",
493 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
498 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
499 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
500 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
502 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
503 ===========================
508 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
510 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
512 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
514 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
515 structure for signatures changed slightly.
517 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
519 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
522 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
523 ===========================
525 This is a bug fix and portability release.
530 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
532 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
534 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
536 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
538 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
544 Use --quick when starting emacs
546 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
548 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
550 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
552 Command-Line Interface
553 ----------------------
555 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
556 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
561 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
563 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
564 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
566 Fix for phrase indexing
568 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
569 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
570 will affect only newly indexed messages.
575 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
577 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
578 unintentionally removed.
580 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
581 =========================
586 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
587 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
588 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
589 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
590 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
591 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
592 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
593 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
594 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
600 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
602 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
603 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
604 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
605 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
606 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
607 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
608 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
609 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
611 There is a new `path:` search prefix
613 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
614 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
615 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
616 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
619 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
621 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
622 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
623 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
624 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
625 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
626 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
627 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
632 Notmuch database upgrade
634 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
635 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
636 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
637 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
638 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
639 released version of Notmuch before now.
641 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
643 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
644 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
645 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
646 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
648 Message header parsing changes
650 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
651 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
652 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
653 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
654 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
655 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
657 Command-Line Interface
658 ----------------------
660 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
662 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
664 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
666 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
668 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
670 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
671 user does not want it.
673 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
675 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
676 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
677 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
678 support formatted output.
680 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
682 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
683 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
684 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
692 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
693 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
694 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
695 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
696 `~/.emacs` with these.
698 Changed format for saved searches
700 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
701 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
702 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
703 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
706 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
707 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
708 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
709 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
711 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
712 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
713 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
715 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
716 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
717 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
718 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
719 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
721 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
723 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
724 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
725 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
727 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
729 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
730 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
731 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
732 message had been unread).
734 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
735 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
736 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
737 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
739 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
740 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
741 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
743 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
744 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
745 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
746 to tags already present.
750 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
751 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
752 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
753 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
754 these differ from each other.
755 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
757 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
759 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
760 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
761 for these Emacs versions.
763 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
765 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
766 newlines before calling notmuch count.
768 Bug fixes for sender identities
770 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
771 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
772 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
774 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
776 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
777 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
778 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
779 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
781 Reply pushes mark before signature
783 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
784 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
785 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
787 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
789 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
790 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
796 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
797 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
799 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
800 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
801 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
802 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
804 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
805 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
806 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
807 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
808 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
810 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
812 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
813 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
815 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
816 =========================
818 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
819 ---------------------------------------
821 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
822 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
823 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
824 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
825 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
826 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
827 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
831 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
832 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
834 Command-Line Interface
835 ----------------------
837 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
839 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
840 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
841 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
842 print for each message.
844 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
845 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
846 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
847 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
849 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
851 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
852 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
853 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
855 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
857 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
858 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
859 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
860 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
862 `notmuch compact` command
864 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
865 functionality through a more convenient interface than
866 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
867 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
868 move the compacted database into place.
873 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
875 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
876 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
877 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
878 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
879 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
880 and multiple threads.
884 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
886 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
887 search, show and tree mode itself)
889 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
892 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
893 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
895 Customising `notmuch-tree`
897 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
898 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
899 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
900 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
901 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
902 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
903 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
905 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
907 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
908 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
909 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
910 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
911 thread when the search was performed.
913 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
915 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
916 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
917 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
919 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
921 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
922 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
925 Built-in help improvements
927 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
928 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
929 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
931 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
933 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
934 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
935 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
937 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
939 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
940 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
942 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
944 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
945 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
946 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
947 to move some of them to the common keymap.
949 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
951 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
952 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
953 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
954 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
956 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
958 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
959 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
960 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
962 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
964 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
965 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
966 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
968 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
970 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
971 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
972 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
973 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
974 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
976 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
978 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
979 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
980 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
981 the body part of the message.
986 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
987 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
988 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
990 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
991 =========================
993 Command-Line Interface
994 ----------------------
996 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
998 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
999 folder and notmuch index.
1001 `notmuch count --batch` option
1003 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1004 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1006 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1008 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1009 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1010 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1013 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1015 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1016 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1017 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1018 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1019 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1022 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1024 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1025 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1027 Top level option to specify configuration file
1029 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1030 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1032 Bash command-line completion
1034 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1035 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1036 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1037 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1038 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1039 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1040 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1041 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1042 bash-completion package.
1044 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1049 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1051 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1052 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1053 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1054 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1055 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1056 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1057 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1058 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1060 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1062 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1063 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1064 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1066 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1068 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1069 previous thread in the search results.
1071 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1073 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1074 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1076 Faster search and show
1078 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1079 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1080 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1081 threads should show faster.
1085 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1086 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1087 in question was now removed from this release.
1092 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1093 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1098 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1100 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1101 ===========================
1106 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1108 Internal test framework changes
1109 -------------------------------
1111 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1112 being unimplemented.
1114 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1115 ===========================
1117 Internal test framework changes
1118 -------------------------------
1120 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1121 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1123 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1124 =========================
1129 Date range search support
1131 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1132 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1133 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1134 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1135 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1138 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1140 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1141 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1142 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1143 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1144 but may be removed in a future release.
1146 Command-Line Interface
1147 ----------------------
1149 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1151 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1152 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1154 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1156 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1157 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1158 officially deprecated.
1160 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1162 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1163 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1164 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1166 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1168 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1169 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1172 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1173 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1174 dump/restore format.
1176 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1178 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1179 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1180 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1182 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1184 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1185 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1186 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1188 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1190 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1191 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1192 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1193 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1198 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1200 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1201 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1202 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1203 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1205 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1207 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1208 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1209 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1210 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1211 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1212 the behavior of this, see
1213 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1214 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1216 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1217 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1218 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1220 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1222 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1223 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1226 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1228 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1229 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1230 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1231 simply displayed in place of the message.
1233 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1235 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1236 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1238 Improved text/calendar content handling
1240 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1241 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1242 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1243 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1245 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1247 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1248 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1249 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1250 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1252 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1254 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1255 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1256 for HTML email containing images.
1258 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1260 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1262 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1264 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1267 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1269 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1270 the point where it was.
1272 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1274 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1275 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1276 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1277 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1278 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1280 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1282 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1283 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1284 thread instead of the message id.
1286 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1287 -----------------------------
1289 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1290 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1291 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1292 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1293 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1294 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1295 further details and installation.
1300 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1302 Internal test framework changes
1303 -------------------------------
1305 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1307 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1308 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1309 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1310 can result in buggy behavior.
1312 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1313 =========================
1318 Maildir tag synchronization
1320 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1321 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1322 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1323 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1324 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1325 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1328 Command-Line Interface
1329 ----------------------
1331 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1332 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1333 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1334 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1335 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1341 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1343 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1345 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1346 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1347 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1349 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1351 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1352 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1353 span multiple lines.
1355 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1357 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1358 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1359 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1360 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1361 inside the result or message.
1363 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1365 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1366 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1368 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1369 user-specified formatting
1371 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1372 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1373 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1374 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1375 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1377 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1378 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1380 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1381 ===========================
1386 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1387 compilation error for this contrib package.
1389 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1390 ===========================
1395 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1397 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1398 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1399 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1400 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1402 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1403 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1406 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1407 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1408 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1409 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1412 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1414 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1417 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1418 =========================
1420 Command-Line Interface
1421 ----------------------
1425 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1426 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1427 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1428 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1430 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1431 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1432 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1433 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1437 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1438 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1440 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1441 tag in your query, for example:
1443 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1445 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1446 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1448 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1449 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1451 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1453 Raw show format changes
1455 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1456 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1457 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1458 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1459 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1460 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1461 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1462 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1464 Listing configuration items
1466 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1472 Changes to tagging interface
1474 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1475 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1476 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1477 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1478 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1479 for more information.
1481 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1482 may need to update in custom configurations.
1484 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1486 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1487 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1488 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1489 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1492 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1493 -----------------------------
1495 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1496 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1497 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1498 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1499 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1500 contrib/ from now on.
1505 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1506 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1508 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1509 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1511 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1512 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1513 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1515 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1516 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1518 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1519 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1520 returning the new database object or directory object.
1527 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1528 compatible with go 1.
1530 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1531 =========================
1533 Command-Line Interface
1534 ----------------------
1538 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1539 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1540 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1541 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1543 Mail store folder/file ignore
1545 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1546 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1547 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1549 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1550 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1552 Unified help and manual pages
1554 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1555 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1558 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1560 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1561 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1569 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1570 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1571 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1572 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1574 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1576 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1577 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1579 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1582 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1583 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1584 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1586 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1588 should be changed to:
1590 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1592 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1594 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1595 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1597 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1599 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1600 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1601 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1602 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1603 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1604 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1608 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1609 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1610 of Mailing List Archives.
1612 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1614 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1615 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1618 Show view archiving key binding changes
1620 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1621 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1622 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1623 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1624 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1627 Support text/calendar MIME type
1629 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1632 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1634 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1635 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1636 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1637 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1639 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1641 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1642 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1643 messages blue by default in the search view.
1647 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1648 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1655 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1658 Python bindings changes
1659 -----------------------
1661 Python 3.2 compatibility
1663 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1665 Added missing unicode conversions
1667 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1668 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1669 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1674 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1676 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1677 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1678 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1679 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1680 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1682 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1683 ===========================
1688 Fix error handling in python bindings
1690 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1691 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1692 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1693 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1695 Quote MML tags in replies
1697 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1698 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1699 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1700 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1701 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1702 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1703 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1704 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1706 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1707 =========================
1709 Command-Line Interface
1710 ----------------------
1714 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1715 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1716 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1717 importing new messages into the database.
1719 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1721 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1722 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1723 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1728 Automatic tag query optimization
1730 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1731 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1732 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1734 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1736 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1737 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1738 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1743 Reduction of memory leaks
1745 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1746 and fixed in this release.
1753 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1754 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1755 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1758 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1760 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1761 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1762 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1765 Improvements in saved search management
1767 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1768 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1769 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1771 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1773 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1774 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1775 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1777 New face for crypto parts headers
1779 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1780 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1781 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1784 Use space as default thousands separator
1786 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1787 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1788 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1790 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1791 buttonized id: links
1793 New function notmuch-show-advance
1795 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1796 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1797 be bound to SPC with:
1799 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1801 Various performance improvements
1806 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1807 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1810 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1811 ===========================
1816 Fix crash in python bindings
1818 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1819 for some, but not all users.
1821 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1822 ===========================
1827 Fix `--help` argument
1829 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1830 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1831 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1833 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1834 =========================
1836 New build and testing features
1837 ------------------------------
1839 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1840 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1841 prerequisites is improved.
1843 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1845 New command-line features
1846 -------------------------
1848 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1850 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1851 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1854 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1856 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1857 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1858 favour of using stdout.
1860 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1862 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1863 limit the number of results shown.
1865 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1867 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1868 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1871 New emacs UI features
1872 ---------------------
1874 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1876 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1877 starting with "tag:".
1879 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1881 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1882 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1884 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1886 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1888 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1890 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1891 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1896 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1898 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1900 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1901 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1902 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1903 requires a database rebuild:
1905 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1906 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1908 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1910 New collection of add-on tools
1911 ------------------------------
1913 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1914 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1915 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1918 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1920 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1921 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1922 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1924 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1925 ========================
1927 New, general features
1928 ---------------------
1930 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1932 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1933 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1934 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1935 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1936 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1943 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1944 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1946 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1950 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1951 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1952 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1955 Python bindings changes
1956 -----------------------
1958 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1960 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1961 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1962 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1963 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1964 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1965 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1967 Ruby bindings changes
1968 ---------------------
1970 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1971 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1972 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1973 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1978 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1980 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1981 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1983 Reply formatting cleanup
1984 ------------------------
1986 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1987 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1989 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1990 ========================
1992 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1994 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1995 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1996 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1997 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2000 Improved Build system portability
2002 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2003 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2004 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2006 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2008 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2010 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2012 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2013 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2014 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2016 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2017 ========================
2019 Vim interface improvements
2020 --------------------------
2022 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2024 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2025 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2026 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2027 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2028 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2030 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2032 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2033 * fix compose temp file name
2035 Python Bindings changes
2036 -----------------------
2038 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2040 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2041 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2043 Build-System improvements
2044 -------------------------
2046 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2048 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2051 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2052 ==========================
2057 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2059 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2060 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2062 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2063 =======================
2065 New, general features
2066 ---------------------
2068 Folder-based searching
2070 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2071 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2072 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2076 For example, one might use things such as:
2082 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2083 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2085 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2086 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2087 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2088 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2090 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2091 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2092 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2095 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2096 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2098 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2100 Support for PGP/MIME
2102 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2103 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2104 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2106 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2108 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2109 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2111 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2112 notmuch will receive these tags.
2114 New command-line features
2115 -------------------------
2117 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2119 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2120 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2122 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2124 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2125 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2126 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2128 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2130 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2131 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2132 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2133 which parts a signature part applies).
2135 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2137 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2138 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2139 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2140 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2141 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2144 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2146 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2147 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2148 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2149 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2150 by translating it internally to the new call.
2152 Performance improvements
2153 ------------------------
2155 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2157 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2158 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2159 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2161 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2162 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2164 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2166 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2167 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2168 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2170 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2171 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2172 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2173 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2175 Faster initial indexing
2177 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2178 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2179 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2181 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2183 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2184 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2185 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2186 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2188 New emacs-interface features
2189 ----------------------------
2191 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2193 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2194 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2195 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2196 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2197 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2198 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2200 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2202 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2203 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2204 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2205 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2207 User-selectable From address
2209 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2210 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2211 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2212 will prompt for the from address to use.
2214 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2215 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2216 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2218 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2219 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2220 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2223 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2225 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2226 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2228 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2230 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2232 ----- Original Message -----
2234 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2235 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2236 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2237 citations work much like conventional citations.
2239 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2241 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2242 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2243 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2244 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2245 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2247 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2248 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2250 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2252 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2253 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2254 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2256 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2258 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2259 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2260 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2261 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2262 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2264 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2266 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2269 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2271 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2273 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2275 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2278 Vim interface improvements
2279 --------------------------
2281 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2283 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2284 * Implementing archive in show view
2285 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2286 * Add delete commands
2289 Bindings improvements
2290 ---------------------
2292 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2294 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2295 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2297 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2299 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2303 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2304 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2305 `list(Messages)` works now
2306 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2308 These allow, for example:
2310 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2312 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2314 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2320 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2322 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2325 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2327 New build-system features
2328 -------------------------
2330 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2332 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2333 the configure script from some other directory:
2340 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2342 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2343 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2344 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2345 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2346 manual invocation of configure.
2348 New test-suite feature
2349 ----------------------
2351 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2353 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2354 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2355 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2356 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2357 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2360 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2362 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2363 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2364 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2365 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2366 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2367 are updated to take advantage of this.
2369 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2371 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2372 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2373 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2374 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2380 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2382 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2383 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2384 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2386 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2388 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2390 to:user@elsewhere.com
2392 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2394 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2396 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2398 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2399 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2400 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2403 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2404 from the Received headers in some cases
2406 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2407 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2409 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2411 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2413 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2415 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2416 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2417 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2419 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2420 -------------------------
2422 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2424 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2425 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2426 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2428 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2430 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2431 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2432 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2435 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2437 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2438 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2439 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2440 fixed to avoid this bug.
2442 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2444 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2445 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2447 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2448 ========================
2450 New, general features
2451 ---------------------
2453 Maildir-flag synchronization
2455 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2456 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2465 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2467 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2468 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2469 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2470 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2472 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2473 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2474 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2475 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2478 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2480 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2481 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2482 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2484 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2485 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2487 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2488 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2490 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2491 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2492 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2494 New library features
2495 --------------------
2497 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2499 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2500 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2501 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2502 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2504 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2505 message with the new function:
2507 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2509 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2510 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2511 over all available filenames for a given message.
2513 New command-line features
2514 -------------------------
2516 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2518 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2519 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2520 access to the mail store itself.
2522 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2523 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2524 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2525 name of a script containing:
2527 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2529 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2530 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2536 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2538 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2540 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2542 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2543 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2544 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2545 now produces nothing).
2547 Emacs interface improvements
2548 ----------------------------
2550 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2552 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2554 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2556 Display current thread subject in a header line
2558 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2560 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2562 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2563 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2564 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2565 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2566 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2567 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2568 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2570 Vim interface improvements
2571 --------------------------
2573 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2575 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2576 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2582 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2584 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2585 ========================
2587 New command-line features
2588 -------------------------
2590 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2592 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2593 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2594 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2596 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2597 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2598 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2599 scripts. For example:
2601 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2602 <operations-on> "$file"
2605 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2607 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2608 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2609 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2610 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2611 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2612 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2614 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2616 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2617 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2618 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2619 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2621 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2623 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2624 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2625 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2626 default rather than Bcc.
2628 New library features
2629 --------------------
2631 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2633 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2634 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2639 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2641 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2642 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2643 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2644 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2645 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2646 notmuch customize interface.
2648 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2650 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2651 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2652 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2653 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2655 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2657 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2658 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2659 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2660 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2662 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2664 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2665 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2666 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2667 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2668 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2669 notmuch customize interface.
2671 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2673 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2674 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2675 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2676 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2677 notmuch customize interface.
2679 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2681 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2682 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2683 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2684 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2687 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2689 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2690 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2691 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2694 New build-system features
2695 -------------------------
2697 Various portability fixes have been applied
2699 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2700 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2701 more portable than ever before.
2703 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2705 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2706 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2707 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2709 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2710 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2711 automatically run ldconfig.
2713 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2714 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2715 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2717 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2718 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2719 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2720 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2722 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2724 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2725 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2726 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2727 used in the resulting Makefile.
2729 New test-suite features
2730 -----------------------
2732 New modularization of test suite
2734 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2735 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2736 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2737 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2738 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2739 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2740 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2741 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2743 New testing of emacs interface
2745 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2746 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2747 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2748 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2749 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2750 database via the FCC setting.
2755 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2757 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2758 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2759 persistent error of the form:
2761 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2763 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2764 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2766 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2768 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2769 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2770 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2772 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2774 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2775 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2776 parsing the notmuch results).
2778 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2780 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2783 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2784 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2785 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2790 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2792 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2793 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2794 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2795 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2796 the emacs interface.
2798 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2800 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2801 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2802 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2804 Python-binding fixes
2805 --------------------
2807 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2809 Debian-specific fixes
2810 ---------------------
2812 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2814 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2815 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2816 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2819 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2820 ==========================
2825 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2827 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2828 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2829 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2830 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2832 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2834 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2835 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2836 want notmuch to crash.
2841 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2843 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2844 directory does not exist
2849 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2851 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2852 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2854 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2855 ========================
2857 New command-line features
2858 -------------------------
2860 User-configurable tags for new messages
2862 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2863 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2864 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2865 to specify this value.
2867 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2869 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2870 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2871 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2873 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2875 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2876 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2878 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2880 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2881 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2882 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2883 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2884 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2887 Indication of author names that match a search
2889 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2890 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2891 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2892 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2893 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2894 messages in the thread are listed first.
2896 New: Python bindings
2897 --------------------
2899 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2900 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2901 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2902 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2904 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2905 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2906 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2909 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2910 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2911 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2913 Emacs interface improvements
2914 ----------------------------
2916 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2918 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2919 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2920 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2921 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2922 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2923 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2924 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2925 but without any of the disadvantages).
2927 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2928 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2929 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2932 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2933 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2934 instead running something like:
2936 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2938 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2939 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2940 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2943 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2945 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2946 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2947 tweaked by the user.
2949 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2950 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2951 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2954 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2955 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2956 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2959 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2961 This support currently relies on an external program,
2962 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2963 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2964 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2965 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2966 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2969 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2970 notmuch) is available via:
2972 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2974 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2975 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2976 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2978 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2980 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2981 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2982 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2983 making this automatic in a future release.
2985 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2987 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2988 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2989 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2990 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2991 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2992 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2995 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2997 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2998 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2999 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3001 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3003 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3004 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3005 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3007 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3008 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3009 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3010 other representation.
3012 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3013 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3016 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3018 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3019 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3020 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3022 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3023 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3024 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3026 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3028 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3029 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3030 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3031 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3032 to display the search result.
3034 More flexible handling of header visibility
3036 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3037 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3038 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3039 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3040 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3041 with the 'h' keybinding.
3043 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3044 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3045 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3047 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3049 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3051 Customizable formatting of search results
3053 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3054 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3055 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3057 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3059 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3061 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3066 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3068 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3069 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3070 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3071 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3077 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3079 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3080 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3082 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3084 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3085 accept are now all accepted.
3090 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3092 Better display of output from failed tests
3094 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3095 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3097 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3098 ========================
3100 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3101 detailed release notes this time!
3103 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3104 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3106 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3107 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3108 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3109 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3116 Better guessing of From: header
3118 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3119 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3120 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3121 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3122 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3125 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3127 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3128 guaranteed to match all messages.
3130 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3132 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3133 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3134 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3135 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3136 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3139 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3142 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3143 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3144 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3145 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3150 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3152 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3153 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3154 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3155 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3157 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3159 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3161 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3162 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3163 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3165 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3167 Previously, the user might see:
3169 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3173 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3175 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3176 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3177 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3178 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3180 Emacs client features
3181 ---------------------
3183 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3185 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3186 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3187 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3188 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3189 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3191 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3194 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3195 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3196 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3197 search with the '*' binding.
3199 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3201 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3202 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3205 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3207 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3208 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3209 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3211 Build-system features
3212 ---------------------
3214 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3216 Add support to configure for many standard options
3218 We include actual support for:
3220 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3222 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3224 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3225 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3227 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3228 separate "make install-emacs"
3230 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3232 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3233 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3234 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3236 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3239 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3240 ========================
3242 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3244 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3245 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3247 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3248 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3249 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3250 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3251 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3252 tags from messages in a thread.
3259 indent-tabs-mode: nil