1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format.
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
14 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them.
16 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
17 newlines before calling notmuch count.
19 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
20 =========================
22 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
23 ---------------------------------------
25 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
26 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
27 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
28 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
29 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
30 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
31 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
35 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
36 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
38 Command-Line Interface
39 ----------------------
41 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
43 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
44 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
45 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
46 print for each message.
48 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
49 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
50 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
51 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
53 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
55 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
56 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
57 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
59 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
61 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
62 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
63 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
64 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
66 `notmuch compact` command
68 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
69 functionality through a more convenient interface than
70 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
71 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
72 move the compacted database into place.
77 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
79 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
80 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
81 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
82 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
83 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
88 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
90 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
91 search, show and tree mode itself)
93 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
96 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
97 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
99 Customising `notmuch-tree`
101 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
102 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
103 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
104 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
105 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
106 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
107 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
109 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
111 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
112 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
113 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
114 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
115 thread when the search was performed.
117 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
119 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
120 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
121 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
123 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
125 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
126 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
129 Built-in help improvements
131 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
132 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
133 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
135 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
137 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
138 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
139 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
141 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
143 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
144 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
146 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
148 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
149 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
150 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
151 to move some of them to the common keymap.
153 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
155 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
156 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
157 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
158 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
160 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
162 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
163 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
164 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
166 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
168 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
169 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
170 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
172 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
174 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
175 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
176 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
177 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
178 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
180 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
182 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
183 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
184 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
185 the body part of the message.
190 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
191 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
192 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
194 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
195 =========================
197 Command-Line Interface
198 ----------------------
200 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
202 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
203 folder and notmuch index.
205 `notmuch count --batch` option
207 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
208 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
210 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
212 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
213 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
214 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
217 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
219 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
220 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
221 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
222 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
223 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
226 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
228 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
229 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
231 Top level option to specify configuration file
233 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
234 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
236 Bash command-line completion
238 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
239 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
240 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
241 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
242 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
243 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
244 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
245 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
246 bash-completion package.
248 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
253 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
255 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
256 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
257 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
258 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
259 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
260 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
261 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
262 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
264 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
266 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
267 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
268 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
270 Key bindings for next/previous thread
272 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
273 previous thread in the search results.
275 Better handling of errors in search buffers
277 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
278 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
280 Faster search and show
282 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
283 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
284 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
285 threads should show faster.
289 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
290 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
291 in question was now removed from this release.
296 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
297 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
302 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
304 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
305 ===========================
310 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
312 Internal test framework changes
313 -------------------------------
315 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
318 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
319 ===========================
321 Internal test framework changes
322 -------------------------------
324 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
325 build failures in non-interactive environments.
327 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
328 =========================
333 Date range search support
335 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
336 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
337 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
338 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
339 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
342 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
344 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
345 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
346 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
347 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
348 but may be removed in a future release.
350 Command-Line Interface
351 ----------------------
353 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
355 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
356 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
358 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
360 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
361 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
362 officially deprecated.
364 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
366 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
367 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
368 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
370 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
372 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
373 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
376 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
377 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
380 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
382 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
383 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
384 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
386 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
388 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
389 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
390 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
392 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
394 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
395 output separated by null characters rather than newline
396 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
397 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
402 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
404 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
405 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
406 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
407 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
409 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
411 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
412 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
413 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
414 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
415 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
416 the behavior of this, see
417 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
418 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
420 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
421 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
422 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
424 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
426 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
427 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
430 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
432 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
433 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
434 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
435 simply displayed in place of the message.
437 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
439 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
440 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
442 Improved text/calendar content handling
444 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
445 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
446 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
447 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
449 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
451 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
452 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
453 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
454 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
456 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
458 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
459 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
460 for HTML email containing images.
462 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
464 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
466 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
468 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
471 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
473 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
474 the point where it was.
476 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
478 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
479 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
480 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
481 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
482 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
484 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
486 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
487 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
488 thread instead of the message id.
490 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
491 -----------------------------
493 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
494 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
495 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
496 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
497 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
498 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
499 further details and installation.
504 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
506 Internal test framework changes
507 -------------------------------
509 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
511 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
512 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
513 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
514 can result in buggy behavior.
516 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
517 =========================
522 Maildir tag synchronization
524 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
525 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
526 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
527 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
528 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
529 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
532 Command-Line Interface
533 ----------------------
535 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
536 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
537 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
538 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
539 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
545 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
547 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
549 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
550 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
551 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
553 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
555 It is now possible to embed newlines in
556 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
559 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
561 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
562 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
563 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
564 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
565 inside the result or message.
567 Search now uses the JSON format internally
569 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
570 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
572 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
573 user-specified formatting
575 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
576 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
577 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
578 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
579 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
581 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
582 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
584 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
585 ===========================
590 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
591 compilation error for this contrib package.
593 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
594 ===========================
599 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
601 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
602 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
603 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
604 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
606 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
607 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
610 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
611 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
612 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
613 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
616 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
618 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
621 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
622 =========================
624 Command-Line Interface
625 ----------------------
629 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
630 for a reply message and full information about the original message
631 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
632 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
634 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
635 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
636 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
637 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
641 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
642 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
644 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
645 tag in your query, for example:
647 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
649 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
650 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
652 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
653 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
655 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
657 Raw show format changes
659 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
660 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
661 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
662 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
663 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
664 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
665 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
666 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
668 Listing configuration items
670 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
676 Changes to tagging interface
678 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
679 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
680 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
681 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
682 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
683 for more information.
685 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
686 may need to update in custom configurations.
688 Reply improvement using the JSON format
690 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
691 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
692 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
693 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
696 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
697 -----------------------------
699 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
700 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
701 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
702 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
703 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
704 contrib/ from now on.
709 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
710 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
712 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
713 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
715 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
716 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
717 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
719 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
720 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
722 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
723 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
724 returning the new database object or directory object.
731 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
732 compatible with go 1.
734 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
735 =========================
737 Command-Line Interface
738 ----------------------
742 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
743 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
744 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
745 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
747 Mail store folder/file ignore
749 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
750 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
751 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
753 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
754 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
756 Unified help and manual pages
758 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
759 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
762 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
764 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
765 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
773 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
774 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
775 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
776 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
778 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
780 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
781 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
783 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
786 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
787 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
788 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
790 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
792 should be changed to:
794 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
796 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
798 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
799 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
801 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
803 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
804 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
805 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
806 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
807 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
808 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
812 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
813 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
814 of Mailing List Archives.
816 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
818 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
819 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
822 Show view archiving key binding changes
824 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
825 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
826 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
827 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
828 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
831 Support text/calendar MIME type
833 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
836 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
838 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
839 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
840 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
841 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
843 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
845 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
846 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
847 messages blue by default in the search view.
851 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
852 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
859 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
862 Python bindings changes
863 -----------------------
865 Python 3.2 compatibility
867 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
869 Added missing unicode conversions
871 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
872 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
873 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
878 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
880 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
881 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
882 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
883 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
884 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
886 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
887 ===========================
892 Fix error handling in python bindings
894 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
895 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
896 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
897 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
899 Quote MML tags in replies
901 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
902 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
903 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
904 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
905 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
906 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
907 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
908 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
910 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
911 =========================
913 Command-Line Interface
914 ----------------------
918 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
919 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
920 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
921 importing new messages into the database.
923 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
925 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
926 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
927 sometimes. This is now fixed.
932 Automatic tag query optimization
934 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
935 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
936 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
938 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
940 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
941 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
942 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
947 Reduction of memory leaks
949 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
950 and fixed in this release.
957 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
958 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
959 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
962 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
964 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
965 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
966 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
969 Improvements in saved search management
971 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
972 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
973 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
975 Hooks for notmuch-hello
977 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
978 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
979 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
981 New face for crypto parts headers
983 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
984 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
985 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
988 Use space as default thousands separator
990 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
991 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
992 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
994 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
997 New function notmuch-show-advance
999 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1000 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1001 be bound to SPC with:
1003 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1005 Various performance improvements
1010 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1011 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1014 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1015 ===========================
1020 Fix crash in python bindings
1022 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1023 for some, but not all users.
1025 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1026 ===========================
1031 Fix `--help` argument
1033 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1034 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1035 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1037 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1038 =========================
1040 New build and testing features
1041 ------------------------------
1043 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1044 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1045 prerequisites is improved.
1047 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1049 New command-line features
1050 -------------------------
1052 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1054 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1055 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1058 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1060 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1061 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1062 favour of using stdout.
1064 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1066 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1067 limit the number of results shown.
1069 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1071 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1072 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1075 New emacs UI features
1076 ---------------------
1078 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1080 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1081 starting with "tag:".
1083 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1085 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1086 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1088 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1090 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1092 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1094 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1095 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1100 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1102 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1104 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1105 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1106 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1107 requires a database rebuild:
1109 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1110 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1112 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1114 New collection of add-on tools
1115 ------------------------------
1117 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1118 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1119 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1122 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1124 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1125 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1126 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1128 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1129 ========================
1131 New, general features
1132 ---------------------
1134 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1136 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1137 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1138 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1139 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1140 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1147 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1148 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1150 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1154 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1155 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1156 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1159 Python bindings changes
1160 -----------------------
1162 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1164 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1165 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1166 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1167 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1168 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1169 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1171 Ruby bindings changes
1172 ---------------------
1174 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1175 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1176 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1177 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1182 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1184 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1185 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1187 Reply formatting cleanup
1188 ------------------------
1190 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1191 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1193 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1194 ========================
1196 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1198 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1199 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1200 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1201 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1204 Improved Build system portability
1206 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1207 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1208 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1210 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1212 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1214 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1216 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1217 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1218 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1220 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1221 ========================
1223 Vim interface improvements
1224 --------------------------
1226 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1228 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1229 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1230 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1231 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1232 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1234 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1236 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1237 * fix compose temp file name
1239 Python Bindings changes
1240 -----------------------
1242 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1244 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1245 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1247 Build-System improvements
1248 -------------------------
1250 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1252 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1255 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1256 ==========================
1261 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1263 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1264 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1266 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1267 =======================
1269 New, general features
1270 ---------------------
1272 Folder-based searching
1274 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1275 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1276 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1280 For example, one might use things such as:
1286 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1287 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1289 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1290 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1291 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1292 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1294 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1295 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1296 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1299 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1300 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1302 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1304 Support for PGP/MIME
1306 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1307 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1308 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1310 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1312 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1313 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1315 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1316 notmuch will receive these tags.
1318 New command-line features
1319 -------------------------
1321 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1323 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1324 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1326 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1328 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1329 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1330 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1332 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1334 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1335 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1336 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1337 which parts a signature part applies).
1339 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1341 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1342 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1343 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1344 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1345 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1348 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1350 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1351 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1352 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1353 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1354 by translating it internally to the new call.
1356 Performance improvements
1357 ------------------------
1359 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1361 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1362 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1363 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1365 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1366 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1368 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1370 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1371 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1372 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1374 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1375 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1376 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1377 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1379 Faster initial indexing
1381 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1382 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1383 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1385 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1387 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1388 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1389 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1390 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1392 New emacs-interface features
1393 ----------------------------
1395 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1397 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1398 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1399 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1400 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1401 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1402 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1404 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1406 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1407 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1408 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1409 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1411 User-selectable From address
1413 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1414 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1415 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1416 will prompt for the from address to use.
1418 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1419 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1420 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1422 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1423 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1424 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1427 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1429 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1430 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1432 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1434 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1436 ----- Original Message -----
1438 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1439 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1440 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1441 citations work much like conventional citations.
1443 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1445 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1446 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1447 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1448 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1449 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1451 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1452 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1454 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1456 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1457 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1458 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1460 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1462 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1463 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1464 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1465 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1466 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1468 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1470 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1473 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1475 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1477 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1479 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1482 Vim interface improvements
1483 --------------------------
1485 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1487 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1488 * Implementing archive in show view
1489 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1490 * Add delete commands
1493 Bindings improvements
1494 ---------------------
1496 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1498 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1499 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1501 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1503 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1507 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1508 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1509 `list(Messages)` works now
1510 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1512 These allow, for example:
1514 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1516 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1518 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1524 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1526 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1529 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1531 New build-system features
1532 -------------------------
1534 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1536 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1537 the configure script from some other directory:
1544 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1546 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1547 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1548 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1549 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1550 manual invocation of configure.
1552 New test-suite feature
1553 ----------------------
1555 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1557 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1558 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1559 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1560 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1561 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1564 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1566 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1567 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1568 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1569 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1570 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1571 are updated to take advantage of this.
1573 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1575 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1576 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1577 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1578 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1584 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1586 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1587 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1588 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1590 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1592 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1594 to:user@elsewhere.com
1596 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1598 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1600 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1602 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1603 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1604 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1607 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1608 from the Received headers in some cases
1610 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1611 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1613 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1615 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1617 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1619 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1620 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1621 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1623 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1624 -------------------------
1626 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1628 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1629 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1630 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1632 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1634 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1635 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1636 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1639 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1641 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1642 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1643 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1644 fixed to avoid this bug.
1646 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1648 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1649 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1651 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1652 ========================
1654 New, general features
1655 ---------------------
1657 Maildir-flag synchronization
1659 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1660 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1669 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1671 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1672 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1673 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1674 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1676 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1677 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1678 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1679 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1682 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1684 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1685 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1686 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1688 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1689 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1691 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1692 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1694 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1695 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1696 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1698 New library features
1699 --------------------
1701 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1703 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1704 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1705 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1706 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1708 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1709 message with the new function:
1711 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1713 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1714 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1715 over all available filenames for a given message.
1717 New command-line features
1718 -------------------------
1720 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1722 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1723 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1724 access to the mail store itself.
1726 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1727 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1728 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1729 name of a script containing:
1731 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1733 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1734 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1740 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1742 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1744 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1746 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1747 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1748 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1749 now produces nothing).
1751 Emacs interface improvements
1752 ----------------------------
1754 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1756 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1758 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1760 Display current thread subject in a header line
1762 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1764 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1766 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1767 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1768 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1769 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1770 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1771 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1772 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1774 Vim interface improvements
1775 --------------------------
1777 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1779 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1780 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1786 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1788 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1789 ========================
1791 New command-line features
1792 -------------------------
1794 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1796 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1797 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1798 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1800 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1801 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1802 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1803 scripts. For example:
1805 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1806 <operations-on> "$file"
1809 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1811 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1812 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1813 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1814 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1815 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1816 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1818 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1820 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1821 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1822 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1823 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1825 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1827 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1828 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1829 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1830 default rather than Bcc.
1832 New library features
1833 --------------------
1835 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1837 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1838 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1843 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1845 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1846 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1847 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1848 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1849 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1850 notmuch customize interface.
1852 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1854 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1855 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1856 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1857 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1859 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1861 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1862 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1863 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1864 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1866 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1868 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1869 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1870 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1871 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1872 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1873 notmuch customize interface.
1875 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1877 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1878 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1879 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1880 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1881 notmuch customize interface.
1883 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1885 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1886 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1887 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1888 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1891 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1893 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1894 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1895 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1898 New build-system features
1899 -------------------------
1901 Various portability fixes have been applied
1903 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1904 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1905 more portable than ever before.
1907 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1909 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1910 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1911 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1913 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1914 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1915 automatically run ldconfig.
1917 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1918 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1919 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1921 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1922 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1923 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1924 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1926 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1928 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1929 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1930 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1931 used in the resulting Makefile.
1933 New test-suite features
1934 -----------------------
1936 New modularization of test suite
1938 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1939 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1940 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1941 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1942 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1943 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1944 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1945 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1947 New testing of emacs interface
1949 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1950 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1951 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1952 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1953 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1954 database via the FCC setting.
1959 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1961 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1962 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1963 persistent error of the form:
1965 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1967 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1968 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1970 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1972 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1973 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1974 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1976 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1978 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1979 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1980 parsing the notmuch results).
1982 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1984 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1987 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1988 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1989 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1994 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1996 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1997 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1998 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1999 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2000 the emacs interface.
2002 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2004 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2005 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2006 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2008 Python-binding fixes
2009 --------------------
2011 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2013 Debian-specific fixes
2014 ---------------------
2016 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2018 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2019 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2020 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2023 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2024 ==========================
2029 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2031 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2032 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2033 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2034 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2036 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2038 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2039 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2040 want notmuch to crash.
2045 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2047 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2048 directory does not exist
2053 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2055 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2056 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2058 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2059 ========================
2061 New command-line features
2062 -------------------------
2064 User-configurable tags for new messages
2066 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2067 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2068 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2069 to specify this value.
2071 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2073 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2074 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2075 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2077 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2079 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2080 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2082 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2084 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2085 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2086 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2087 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2088 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2091 Indication of author names that match a search
2093 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2094 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2095 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2096 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2097 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2098 messages in the thread are listed first.
2100 New: Python bindings
2101 --------------------
2103 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2104 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2105 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2106 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2108 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2109 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2110 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2113 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2114 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2115 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2117 Emacs interface improvements
2118 ----------------------------
2120 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2122 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2123 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2124 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2125 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2126 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2127 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2128 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2129 but without any of the disadvantages).
2131 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2132 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2133 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2136 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2137 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2138 instead running something like:
2140 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2142 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2143 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2144 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2147 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2149 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2150 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2151 tweaked by the user.
2153 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2154 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2155 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2158 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2159 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2160 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2163 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2165 This support currently relies on an external program,
2166 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2167 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2168 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2169 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2170 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2173 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2174 notmuch) is available via:
2176 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2178 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2179 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2180 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2182 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2184 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2185 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2186 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2187 making this automatic in a future release.
2189 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2191 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2192 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2193 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2194 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2195 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2196 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2199 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2201 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2202 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2203 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2205 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2207 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2208 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2209 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2211 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2212 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2213 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2214 other representation.
2216 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2217 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2220 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2222 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2223 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2224 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2226 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2227 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2228 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2230 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2232 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2233 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2234 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2235 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2236 to display the search result.
2238 More flexible handling of header visibility
2240 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2241 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2242 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2243 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2244 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2245 with the 'h' keybinding.
2247 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2248 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2249 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2251 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2253 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2255 Customizable formatting of search results
2257 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2258 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2259 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2261 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2263 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2265 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2270 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2272 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2273 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2274 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2275 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2281 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2283 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2284 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2286 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2288 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2289 accept are now all accepted.
2294 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2296 Better display of output from failed tests
2298 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2299 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2301 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2302 ========================
2304 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2305 detailed release notes this time!
2307 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2308 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2310 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2311 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2312 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2313 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2320 Better guessing of From: header
2322 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2323 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2324 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2325 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2326 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2329 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2331 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2332 guaranteed to match all messages.
2334 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2336 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2337 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2338 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2339 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2340 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2343 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2346 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2347 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2348 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2349 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2354 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2356 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2357 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2358 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2359 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2361 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2363 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2365 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2366 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2367 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2369 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2371 Previously, the user might see:
2373 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2377 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2379 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2380 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2381 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2382 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2384 Emacs client features
2385 ---------------------
2387 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2389 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2390 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2391 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2392 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2393 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2395 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2398 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2399 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2400 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2401 search with the '*' binding.
2403 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2405 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2406 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2409 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2411 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2412 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2413 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2415 Build-system features
2416 ---------------------
2418 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2420 Add support to configure for many standard options
2422 We include actual support for:
2424 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2426 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2428 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2429 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2431 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2432 separate "make install-emacs"
2434 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2436 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2437 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2438 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2440 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2443 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2444 ========================
2446 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2448 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2449 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2451 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2452 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2453 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2454 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2455 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2456 tags from messages in a thread.
2463 indent-tabs-mode: nil