Fix some typos, add some notes on python bindings, "improve" the folder searching
description, expand the discussion of crypto changes.
This includes the changes from
id:"
1309541202-4938-1-git-send-email-dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com"
Thanks to Sebastian, Austin, and Uwe, Dmitry for the editing help.
(cherry picked from commit
74d00bb0e847a1aa785b9cae2e8242a7789bf8b3)
-Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-XX)
+Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
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New, general features
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New, general features
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For example, one might use things such as:
folder:spam
For example, one might use things such as:
folder:spam
+ folder:2011-*
+ folder:work/todo
- or anything else that matches directories within your mail storage.
+ to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
+ containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+Support for PGP/MIME
+
+ Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
+ support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
+ and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
+
New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
- notmuch will receive these tags. In order to enable this feature for
- all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be rebuilt (see
- above).
+ notmuch will receive these tags.
New command-line features
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New command-line features
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Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
+ Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
+ tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
Performance improvements
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Performance improvements
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-Faster searches (by doing fewer serches to construct threads)
+Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
- Removing inefficiences and redundancies in these secondary searches
+ Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
- all message-document data rather than a ps for each data type)
+ all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
- new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Austin Clements
- and Karel Zak.
+ new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
New emacs-interface features
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New emacs-interface features
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+
+Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
+
+ Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
+ messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
+ multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
+ notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
+ needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
+ Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
+
Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
will prompt for the from address to use.
The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
will prompt for the from address to use.
The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
- notmuch cutomize group in order to use addresses other than those in
+ notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
the notmuch configuration file if desired.
The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
the notmuch configuration file if desired.
The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
customize group.
the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
customize group.
+Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
+
+ In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
+ its parent, the subject is not shown.
+
Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
- tool. T facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
+ tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
Notmuch Before Tag Hook
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
Notmuch Before Tag Hook
Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
- Replacing all characters with ACII code less than 32 with a question mark.
+ Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
Vim interface improvements
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Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
Vim interface improvements
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-Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
+Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
- Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
-
- Implementing archive in show view
-
- Add support to mark as read in show and search views
-
- Add delete commands
-
- Various cleanups.
+ * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
+ * Implementing archive in show view
+ * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
+ * Add delete commands
+ * Various cleanups.
Bindings improvements
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Bindings improvements
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Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
-Python bindings are now much more complete
+* Python bindings have been upodated and extended
+ (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
- Including Message().get_filenames(),
- Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(), Threads().__nonzero__,
- Tags().__nonzero__()
+ New bindings:
+ - Message().get_filenames(),
+ - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
+ - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
- Also implement Message.__cmp__ and __hash__
+ - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
These allow, for example:
These allow, for example:
As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
+ s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
+ Removed:
+ - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
+ Use len(list(Messages())) or
+ Query.count_messages() to get the length.
+
Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
/bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
/bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
- simply install bash >= 4 somwhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
+ simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
the test suite.
Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
the test suite.
Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
- presense/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
+ presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
- are updated to take advnatage of this.
+ are updated to take advantage of this.
Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
- interface and were never intented to be exported.
+ interface and were never intended to be exported.
Emacs-interface bug fixes
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Emacs-interface bug fixes
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Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
- very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug decribed below.
+ very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
- interface was incorrectly dropping one thread everytime the output
- of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacss read-buffer. This
+ interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
+ of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
-Avoid rec-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
+Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
tags from messages in a thread.
tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
tags from messages in a thread.
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