1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
10 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
15 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
17 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
18 parts are now included in replies.
20 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
21 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
22 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
23 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
25 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
27 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
29 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
31 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
32 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
33 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
34 forwards only the current message.
36 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
38 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
39 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
40 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
41 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
42 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
43 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
44 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
45 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
48 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
49 longer generate empty buffers
51 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
52 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
53 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
54 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
55 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
60 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
61 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
62 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
68 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
69 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
70 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
71 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
72 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
73 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
75 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
76 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
77 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
78 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
79 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
80 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
82 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
83 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
85 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
86 =========================
91 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
94 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
96 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
97 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
98 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
100 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
101 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
103 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
104 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
105 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
107 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
109 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
110 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
111 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
112 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
113 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
114 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
119 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
120 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
123 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
126 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
128 Command Line Interface
129 ----------------------
131 Database revision tracking
133 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
134 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
135 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
136 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
138 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
140 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
141 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
142 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
143 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
144 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
145 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
146 manual page for further information.
151 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
153 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
154 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
156 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
158 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
159 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
160 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
162 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
164 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
166 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
167 customization as well.
169 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
171 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
173 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
175 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
177 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
178 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
179 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
180 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
182 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
184 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
185 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
186 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
187 this variable to 10000.
192 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
193 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
195 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
197 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
198 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
199 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
200 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
201 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
202 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
203 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
204 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
205 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
208 Database revision tracking
210 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
211 query parser and the new function
212 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
214 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
218 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
219 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
220 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
221 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
226 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
228 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
229 ===========================
234 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
236 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
237 ===========================
242 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
244 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
245 =========================
247 Command-Line Interface
248 ----------------------
250 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
252 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
253 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
254 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
256 Path to gpg is now configurable
258 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
259 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
264 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
266 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
271 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
276 Support messages without Message-IDs.
281 Undeprecate single message mboxes
283 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
284 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
286 New error logging facility
288 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
289 output formerly printed to stderr.
291 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
293 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
295 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
297 Fix for rounding of seconds
302 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
304 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
305 docmumentation has been removed.
307 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
309 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
310 some material from the relicensed wiki.
315 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
316 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
317 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
322 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
323 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
324 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
325 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
326 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
327 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
330 git checkout config origin/config
332 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
334 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
335 =========================
340 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
341 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
342 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
343 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
344 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
345 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
346 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
348 Command-Line Interface
349 ----------------------
351 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
353 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
354 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
355 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
356 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
357 script callers should still check the return value.
359 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
361 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
362 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
363 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
364 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
365 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
366 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
367 and returning success even if indexing fails).
369 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
371 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
372 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
373 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
375 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
377 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
378 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
379 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
380 currently unmaintained.
382 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
384 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
385 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
386 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
387 have at least `N` files associated with them.
389 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
391 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
392 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
393 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
394 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
395 count of duplicate addresses.
400 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
402 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
403 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
404 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
407 Improved handling of the unread tag
409 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
410 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
411 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
412 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
413 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
414 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
415 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
417 Expanded default saved search settings
419 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
420 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
422 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
424 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
425 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
426 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
428 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
430 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
431 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
432 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
433 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
434 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
435 the variable for details.
440 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
442 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
443 Representing these independently of the database version number will
444 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
445 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
447 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
449 Previously, library users were required to call
450 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
451 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
452 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
453 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
454 too out of date for that API.
456 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
458 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
459 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
460 atomic section will be aborted.
462 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
463 `notmuch_database_destroy`
465 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
467 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
468 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
469 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
470 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
471 messages into the same thread.
476 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
477 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
478 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
479 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
480 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
481 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
486 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
487 from the config file. Use something like:
491 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
492 "footer": "</body></html>",
501 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
506 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
507 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
508 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
510 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
511 ===========================
516 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
518 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
520 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
522 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
523 structure for signatures changed slightly.
525 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
527 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
530 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
531 ===========================
533 This is a bug fix and portability release.
538 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
540 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
542 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
544 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
546 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
552 Use --quick when starting emacs
554 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
556 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
558 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
560 Command-Line Interface
561 ----------------------
563 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
564 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
569 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
571 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
572 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
574 Fix for phrase indexing
576 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
577 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
578 will affect only newly indexed messages.
583 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
585 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
586 unintentionally removed.
588 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
589 =========================
594 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
595 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
596 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
597 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
598 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
599 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
600 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
601 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
602 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
608 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
610 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
611 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
612 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
613 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
614 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
615 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
616 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
617 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
619 There is a new `path:` search prefix
621 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
622 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
623 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
624 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
627 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
629 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
630 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
631 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
632 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
633 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
634 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
635 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
640 Notmuch database upgrade
642 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
643 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
644 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
645 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
646 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
647 released version of Notmuch before now.
649 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
651 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
652 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
653 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
654 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
656 Message header parsing changes
658 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
659 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
660 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
661 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
662 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
663 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
665 Command-Line Interface
666 ----------------------
668 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
670 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
672 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
674 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
676 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
678 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
679 user does not want it.
681 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
683 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
684 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
685 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
686 support formatted output.
688 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
690 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
691 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
692 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
700 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
701 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
702 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
703 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
704 `~/.emacs` with these.
706 Changed format for saved searches
708 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
709 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
710 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
711 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
714 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
715 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
716 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
717 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
719 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
720 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
721 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
723 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
724 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
725 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
726 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
727 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
729 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
731 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
732 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
733 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
735 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
737 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
738 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
739 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
740 message had been unread).
742 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
743 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
744 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
745 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
747 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
748 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
749 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
751 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
752 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
753 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
754 to tags already present.
758 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
759 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
760 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
761 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
762 these differ from each other.
763 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
765 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
767 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
768 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
769 for these Emacs versions.
771 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
773 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
774 newlines before calling notmuch count.
776 Bug fixes for sender identities
778 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
779 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
780 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
782 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
784 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
785 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
786 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
787 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
789 Reply pushes mark before signature
791 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
792 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
793 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
795 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
797 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
798 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
804 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
805 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
807 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
808 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
809 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
810 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
812 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
813 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
814 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
815 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
816 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
818 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
820 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
821 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
823 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
824 =========================
826 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
827 ---------------------------------------
829 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
830 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
831 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
832 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
833 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
834 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
835 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
839 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
840 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
842 Command-Line Interface
843 ----------------------
845 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
847 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
848 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
849 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
850 print for each message.
852 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
853 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
854 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
855 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
857 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
859 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
860 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
861 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
863 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
865 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
866 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
867 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
868 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
870 `notmuch compact` command
872 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
873 functionality through a more convenient interface than
874 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
875 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
876 move the compacted database into place.
881 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
883 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
884 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
885 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
886 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
887 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
888 and multiple threads.
892 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
894 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
895 search, show and tree mode itself)
897 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
900 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
901 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
903 Customising `notmuch-tree`
905 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
906 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
907 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
908 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
909 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
910 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
911 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
913 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
915 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
916 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
917 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
918 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
919 thread when the search was performed.
921 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
923 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
924 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
925 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
927 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
929 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
930 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
933 Built-in help improvements
935 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
936 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
937 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
939 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
941 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
942 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
943 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
945 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
947 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
948 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
950 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
952 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
953 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
954 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
955 to move some of them to the common keymap.
957 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
959 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
960 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
961 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
962 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
964 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
966 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
967 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
968 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
970 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
972 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
973 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
974 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
976 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
978 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
979 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
980 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
981 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
982 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
984 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
986 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
987 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
988 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
989 the body part of the message.
994 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
995 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
996 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
998 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
999 =========================
1001 Command-Line Interface
1002 ----------------------
1004 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1006 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1007 folder and notmuch index.
1009 `notmuch count --batch` option
1011 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1012 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1014 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1016 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1017 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1018 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1021 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1023 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1024 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1025 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1026 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1027 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1030 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1032 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1033 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1035 Top level option to specify configuration file
1037 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1038 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1040 Bash command-line completion
1042 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1043 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1044 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1045 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1046 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1047 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1048 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1049 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1050 bash-completion package.
1052 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1057 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1059 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1060 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1061 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1062 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1063 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1064 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1065 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1066 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1068 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1070 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1071 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1072 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1074 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1076 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1077 previous thread in the search results.
1079 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1081 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1082 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1084 Faster search and show
1086 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1087 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1088 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1089 threads should show faster.
1093 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1094 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1095 in question was now removed from this release.
1100 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1101 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1106 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1108 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1109 ===========================
1114 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1116 Internal test framework changes
1117 -------------------------------
1119 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1120 being unimplemented.
1122 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1123 ===========================
1125 Internal test framework changes
1126 -------------------------------
1128 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1129 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1131 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1132 =========================
1137 Date range search support
1139 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1140 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1141 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1142 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1143 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1146 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1148 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1149 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1150 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1151 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1152 but may be removed in a future release.
1154 Command-Line Interface
1155 ----------------------
1157 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1159 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1160 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1162 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1164 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1165 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1166 officially deprecated.
1168 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1170 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1171 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1172 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1174 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1176 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1177 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1180 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1181 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1182 dump/restore format.
1184 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1186 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1187 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1188 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1190 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1192 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1193 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1194 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1196 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1198 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1199 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1200 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1201 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1206 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1208 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1209 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1210 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1211 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1213 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1215 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1216 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1217 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1218 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1219 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1220 the behavior of this, see
1221 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1222 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1224 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1225 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1226 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1228 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1230 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1231 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1234 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1236 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1237 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1238 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1239 simply displayed in place of the message.
1241 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1243 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1244 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1246 Improved text/calendar content handling
1248 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1249 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1250 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1251 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1253 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1255 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1256 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1257 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1258 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1260 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1262 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1263 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1264 for HTML email containing images.
1266 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1268 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1270 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1272 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1275 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1277 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1278 the point where it was.
1280 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1282 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1283 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1284 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1285 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1286 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1288 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1290 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1291 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1292 thread instead of the message id.
1294 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1295 -----------------------------
1297 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1298 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1299 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1300 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1301 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1302 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1303 further details and installation.
1308 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1310 Internal test framework changes
1311 -------------------------------
1313 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1315 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1316 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1317 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1318 can result in buggy behavior.
1320 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1321 =========================
1326 Maildir tag synchronization
1328 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1329 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1330 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1331 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1332 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1333 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1336 Command-Line Interface
1337 ----------------------
1339 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1340 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1341 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1342 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1343 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1349 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1351 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1353 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1354 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1355 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1357 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1359 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1360 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1361 span multiple lines.
1363 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1365 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1366 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1367 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1368 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1369 inside the result or message.
1371 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1373 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1374 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1376 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1377 user-specified formatting
1379 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1380 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1381 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1382 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1383 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1385 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1386 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1388 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1389 ===========================
1394 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1395 compilation error for this contrib package.
1397 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1398 ===========================
1403 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1405 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1406 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1407 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1408 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1410 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1411 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1414 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1415 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1416 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1417 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1420 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1422 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1425 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1426 =========================
1428 Command-Line Interface
1429 ----------------------
1433 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1434 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1435 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1436 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1438 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1439 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1440 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1441 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1445 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1446 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1448 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1449 tag in your query, for example:
1451 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1453 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1454 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1456 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1457 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1459 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1461 Raw show format changes
1463 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1464 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1465 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1466 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1467 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1468 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1469 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1470 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1472 Listing configuration items
1474 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1480 Changes to tagging interface
1482 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1483 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1484 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1485 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1486 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1487 for more information.
1489 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1490 may need to update in custom configurations.
1492 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1494 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1495 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1496 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1497 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1500 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1501 -----------------------------
1503 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1504 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1505 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1506 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1507 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1508 contrib/ from now on.
1513 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1514 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1516 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1517 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1519 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1520 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1521 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1523 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1524 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1526 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1527 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1528 returning the new database object or directory object.
1535 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1536 compatible with go 1.
1538 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1539 =========================
1541 Command-Line Interface
1542 ----------------------
1546 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1547 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1548 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1549 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1551 Mail store folder/file ignore
1553 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1554 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1555 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1557 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1558 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1560 Unified help and manual pages
1562 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1563 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1566 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1568 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1569 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1577 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1578 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1579 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1580 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1582 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1584 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1585 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1587 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1590 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1591 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1592 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1594 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1596 should be changed to:
1598 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1600 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1602 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1603 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1605 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1607 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1608 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1609 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1610 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1611 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1612 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1616 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1617 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1618 of Mailing List Archives.
1620 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1622 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1623 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1626 Show view archiving key binding changes
1628 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1629 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1630 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1631 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1632 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1635 Support text/calendar MIME type
1637 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1640 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1642 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1643 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1644 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1645 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1647 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1649 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1650 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1651 messages blue by default in the search view.
1655 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1656 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1663 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1666 Python bindings changes
1667 -----------------------
1669 Python 3.2 compatibility
1671 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1673 Added missing unicode conversions
1675 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1676 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1677 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1682 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1684 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1685 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1686 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1687 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1688 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1690 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1691 ===========================
1696 Fix error handling in python bindings
1698 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1699 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1700 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1701 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1703 Quote MML tags in replies
1705 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1706 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1707 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1708 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1709 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1710 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1711 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1712 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1714 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1715 =========================
1717 Command-Line Interface
1718 ----------------------
1722 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1723 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1724 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1725 importing new messages into the database.
1727 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1729 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1730 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1731 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1736 Automatic tag query optimization
1738 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1739 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1740 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1742 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1744 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1745 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1746 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1751 Reduction of memory leaks
1753 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1754 and fixed in this release.
1761 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1762 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1763 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1766 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1768 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1769 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1770 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1773 Improvements in saved search management
1775 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1776 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1777 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1779 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1781 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1782 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1783 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1785 New face for crypto parts headers
1787 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1788 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1789 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1792 Use space as default thousands separator
1794 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1795 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1796 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1798 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1799 buttonized id: links
1801 New function notmuch-show-advance
1803 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1804 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1805 be bound to SPC with:
1807 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1809 Various performance improvements
1814 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1815 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1818 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1819 ===========================
1824 Fix crash in python bindings
1826 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1827 for some, but not all users.
1829 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1830 ===========================
1835 Fix `--help` argument
1837 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1838 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1839 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1841 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1842 =========================
1844 New build and testing features
1845 ------------------------------
1847 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1848 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1849 prerequisites is improved.
1851 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1853 New command-line features
1854 -------------------------
1856 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1858 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1859 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1862 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1864 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1865 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1866 favour of using stdout.
1868 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1870 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1871 limit the number of results shown.
1873 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1875 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1876 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1879 New emacs UI features
1880 ---------------------
1882 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1884 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1885 starting with "tag:".
1887 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1889 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1890 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1892 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1894 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1896 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1898 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1899 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1904 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1906 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1908 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1909 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1910 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1911 requires a database rebuild:
1913 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1914 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1916 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1918 New collection of add-on tools
1919 ------------------------------
1921 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1922 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1923 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1926 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1928 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1929 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1930 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1932 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1933 ========================
1935 New, general features
1936 ---------------------
1938 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1940 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1941 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1942 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1943 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1944 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1951 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1952 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1954 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1958 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1959 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1960 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1963 Python bindings changes
1964 -----------------------
1966 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1968 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1969 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1970 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1971 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1972 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1973 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1975 Ruby bindings changes
1976 ---------------------
1978 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1979 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1980 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1981 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1986 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1988 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1989 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1991 Reply formatting cleanup
1992 ------------------------
1994 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1995 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1997 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1998 ========================
2000 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2002 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2003 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2004 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2005 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2008 Improved Build system portability
2010 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2011 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2012 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2014 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2016 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2018 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2020 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2021 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2022 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2024 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2025 ========================
2027 Vim interface improvements
2028 --------------------------
2030 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2032 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2033 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2034 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2035 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2036 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2038 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2040 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2041 * fix compose temp file name
2043 Python Bindings changes
2044 -----------------------
2046 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2048 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2049 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2051 Build-System improvements
2052 -------------------------
2054 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2056 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2059 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2060 ==========================
2065 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2067 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2068 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2070 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2071 =======================
2073 New, general features
2074 ---------------------
2076 Folder-based searching
2078 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2079 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2080 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2084 For example, one might use things such as:
2090 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2091 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2093 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2094 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2095 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2096 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2098 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2099 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2100 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2103 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2104 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2106 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2108 Support for PGP/MIME
2110 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2111 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2112 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2114 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2116 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2117 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2119 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2120 notmuch will receive these tags.
2122 New command-line features
2123 -------------------------
2125 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2127 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2128 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2130 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2132 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2133 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2134 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2136 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2138 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2139 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2140 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2141 which parts a signature part applies).
2143 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2145 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2146 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2147 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2148 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2149 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2152 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2154 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2155 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2156 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2157 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2158 by translating it internally to the new call.
2160 Performance improvements
2161 ------------------------
2163 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2165 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2166 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2167 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2169 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2170 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2172 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2174 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2175 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2176 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2178 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2179 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2180 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2181 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2183 Faster initial indexing
2185 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2186 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2187 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2189 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2191 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2192 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2193 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2194 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2196 New emacs-interface features
2197 ----------------------------
2199 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2201 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2202 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2203 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2204 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2205 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2206 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2208 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2210 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2211 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2212 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2213 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2215 User-selectable From address
2217 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2218 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2219 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2220 will prompt for the from address to use.
2222 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2223 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2224 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2226 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2227 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2228 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2231 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2233 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2234 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2236 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2238 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2240 ----- Original Message -----
2242 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2243 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2244 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2245 citations work much like conventional citations.
2247 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2249 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2250 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2251 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2252 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2253 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2255 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2256 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2258 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2260 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2261 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2262 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2264 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2266 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2267 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2268 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2269 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2270 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2272 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2274 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2277 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2279 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2281 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2283 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2286 Vim interface improvements
2287 --------------------------
2289 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2291 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2292 * Implementing archive in show view
2293 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2294 * Add delete commands
2297 Bindings improvements
2298 ---------------------
2300 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2302 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2303 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2305 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2307 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2311 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2312 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2313 `list(Messages)` works now
2314 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2316 These allow, for example:
2318 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2320 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2322 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2328 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2330 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2333 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2335 New build-system features
2336 -------------------------
2338 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2340 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2341 the configure script from some other directory:
2348 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2350 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2351 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2352 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2353 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2354 manual invocation of configure.
2356 New test-suite feature
2357 ----------------------
2359 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2361 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2362 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2363 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2364 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2365 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2368 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2370 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2371 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2372 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2373 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2374 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2375 are updated to take advantage of this.
2377 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2379 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2380 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2381 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2382 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2388 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2390 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2391 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2392 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2394 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2396 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2398 to:user@elsewhere.com
2400 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2402 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2404 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2406 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2407 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2408 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2411 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2412 from the Received headers in some cases
2414 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2415 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2417 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2419 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2421 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2423 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2424 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2425 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2427 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2428 -------------------------
2430 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2432 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2433 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2434 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2436 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2438 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2439 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2440 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2443 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2445 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2446 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2447 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2448 fixed to avoid this bug.
2450 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2452 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2453 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2455 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2456 ========================
2458 New, general features
2459 ---------------------
2461 Maildir-flag synchronization
2463 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2464 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2473 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2475 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2476 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2477 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2478 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2480 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2481 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2482 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2483 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2486 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2488 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2489 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2490 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2492 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2493 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2495 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2496 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2498 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2499 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2500 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2502 New library features
2503 --------------------
2505 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2507 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2508 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2509 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2510 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2512 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2513 message with the new function:
2515 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2517 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2518 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2519 over all available filenames for a given message.
2521 New command-line features
2522 -------------------------
2524 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2526 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2527 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2528 access to the mail store itself.
2530 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2531 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2532 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2533 name of a script containing:
2535 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2537 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2538 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2544 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2546 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2548 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2550 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2551 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2552 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2553 now produces nothing).
2555 Emacs interface improvements
2556 ----------------------------
2558 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2560 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2562 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2564 Display current thread subject in a header line
2566 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2568 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2570 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2571 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2572 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2573 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2574 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2575 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2576 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2578 Vim interface improvements
2579 --------------------------
2581 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2583 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2584 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2590 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2592 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2593 ========================
2595 New command-line features
2596 -------------------------
2598 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2600 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2601 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2602 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2604 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2605 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2606 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2607 scripts. For example:
2609 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2610 <operations-on> "$file"
2613 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2615 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2616 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2617 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2618 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2619 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2620 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2622 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2624 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2625 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2626 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2627 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2629 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2631 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2632 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2633 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2634 default rather than Bcc.
2636 New library features
2637 --------------------
2639 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2641 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2642 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2647 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2649 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2650 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2651 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2652 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2653 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2654 notmuch customize interface.
2656 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2658 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2659 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2660 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2661 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2663 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2665 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2666 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2667 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2668 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2670 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2672 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2673 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2674 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2675 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2676 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2677 notmuch customize interface.
2679 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2681 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2682 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2683 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2684 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2685 notmuch customize interface.
2687 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2689 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2690 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2691 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2692 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2695 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2697 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2698 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2699 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2702 New build-system features
2703 -------------------------
2705 Various portability fixes have been applied
2707 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2708 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2709 more portable than ever before.
2711 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2713 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2714 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2715 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2717 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2718 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2719 automatically run ldconfig.
2721 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2722 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2723 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2725 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2726 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2727 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2728 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2730 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2732 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2733 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2734 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2735 used in the resulting Makefile.
2737 New test-suite features
2738 -----------------------
2740 New modularization of test suite
2742 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2743 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2744 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2745 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2746 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2747 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2748 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2749 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2751 New testing of emacs interface
2753 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2754 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2755 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2756 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2757 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2758 database via the FCC setting.
2763 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2765 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2766 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2767 persistent error of the form:
2769 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2771 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2772 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2774 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2776 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2777 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2778 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2780 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2782 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2783 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2784 parsing the notmuch results).
2786 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2788 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2791 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2792 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2793 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2798 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2800 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2801 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2802 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2803 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2804 the emacs interface.
2806 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2808 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2809 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2810 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2812 Python-binding fixes
2813 --------------------
2815 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2817 Debian-specific fixes
2818 ---------------------
2820 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2822 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2823 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2824 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2827 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2828 ==========================
2833 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2835 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2836 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2837 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2838 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2840 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2842 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2843 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2844 want notmuch to crash.
2849 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2851 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2852 directory does not exist
2857 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2859 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2860 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2862 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2863 ========================
2865 New command-line features
2866 -------------------------
2868 User-configurable tags for new messages
2870 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2871 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2872 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2873 to specify this value.
2875 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2877 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2878 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2879 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2881 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2883 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2884 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2886 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2888 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2889 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2890 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2891 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2892 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2895 Indication of author names that match a search
2897 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2898 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2899 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2900 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2901 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2902 messages in the thread are listed first.
2904 New: Python bindings
2905 --------------------
2907 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2908 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2909 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2910 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2912 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2913 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2914 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2917 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2918 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2919 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2921 Emacs interface improvements
2922 ----------------------------
2924 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2926 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2927 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2928 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2929 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2930 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2931 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2932 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2933 but without any of the disadvantages).
2935 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2936 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2937 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2940 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2941 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2942 instead running something like:
2944 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2946 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2947 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2948 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2951 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2953 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2954 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2955 tweaked by the user.
2957 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2958 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2959 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2962 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2963 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2964 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2967 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2969 This support currently relies on an external program,
2970 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2971 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2972 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2973 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2974 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2977 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2978 notmuch) is available via:
2980 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2982 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2983 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2984 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2986 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2988 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2989 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2990 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2991 making this automatic in a future release.
2993 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2995 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2996 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2997 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2998 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2999 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3000 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3003 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3005 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3006 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3007 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3009 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3011 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3012 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3013 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3015 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3016 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3017 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3018 other representation.
3020 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3021 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3024 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3026 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3027 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3028 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3030 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3031 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3032 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3034 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3036 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3037 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3038 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3039 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3040 to display the search result.
3042 More flexible handling of header visibility
3044 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3045 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3046 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3047 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3048 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3049 with the 'h' keybinding.
3051 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3052 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3053 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3055 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3057 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3059 Customizable formatting of search results
3061 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3062 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3063 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3065 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3067 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3069 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3074 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3076 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3077 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3078 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3079 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3085 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3087 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3088 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3090 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3092 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3093 accept are now all accepted.
3098 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3100 Better display of output from failed tests
3102 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3103 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3105 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3106 ========================
3108 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3109 detailed release notes this time!
3111 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3112 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3114 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3115 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3116 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3117 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3124 Better guessing of From: header
3126 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3127 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3128 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3129 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3130 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3133 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3135 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3136 guaranteed to match all messages.
3138 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3140 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3141 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3142 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3143 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3144 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3147 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3150 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3151 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3152 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3153 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3158 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3160 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3161 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3162 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3163 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3165 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3167 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3169 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3170 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3171 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3173 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3175 Previously, the user might see:
3177 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3181 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3183 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3184 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3185 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3186 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3188 Emacs client features
3189 ---------------------
3191 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3193 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3194 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3195 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3196 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3197 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3199 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3202 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3203 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3204 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3205 search with the '*' binding.
3207 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3209 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3210 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3213 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3215 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3216 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3217 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3219 Build-system features
3220 ---------------------
3222 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3224 Add support to configure for many standard options
3226 We include actual support for:
3228 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3230 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3232 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3233 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3235 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3236 separate "make install-emacs"
3238 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3240 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3241 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3242 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3244 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3247 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3248 ========================
3250 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3252 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3253 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3255 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3256 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3257 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3258 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3259 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3260 tags from messages in a thread.
3267 indent-tabs-mode: nil