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`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
18 Changed format for saved searches
20 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
21 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
22 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
23 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
26 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
27 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
28 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
29 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
31 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
32 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
33 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
35 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
36 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
37 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
38 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
39 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
41 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
43 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
44 newlines before calling notmuch count.
46 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
47 =========================
49 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
50 ---------------------------------------
52 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
53 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
54 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
55 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
56 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
57 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
58 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
62 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
63 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
65 Command-Line Interface
66 ----------------------
68 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
70 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
71 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
72 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
73 print for each message.
75 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
76 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
77 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
78 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
80 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
82 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
83 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
84 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
86 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
88 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
89 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
90 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
91 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
93 `notmuch compact` command
95 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
96 functionality through a more convenient interface than
97 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
98 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
99 move the compacted database into place.
104 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
106 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
107 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
108 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
109 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
110 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
111 and multiple threads.
115 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
117 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
118 search, show and tree mode itself)
120 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
123 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
124 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
126 Customising `notmuch-tree`
128 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
129 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
130 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
131 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
132 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
133 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
134 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
136 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
138 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
139 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
140 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
141 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
142 thread when the search was performed.
144 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
146 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
147 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
148 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
150 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
152 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
153 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
156 Built-in help improvements
158 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
159 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
160 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
162 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
164 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
165 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
166 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
168 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
170 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
171 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
173 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
175 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
176 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
177 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
178 to move some of them to the common keymap.
180 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
182 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
183 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
184 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
185 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
187 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
189 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
190 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
191 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
193 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
195 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
196 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
197 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
199 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
201 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
202 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
203 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
204 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
205 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
207 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
209 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
210 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
211 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
212 the body part of the message.
217 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
218 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
219 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
221 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
222 =========================
224 Command-Line Interface
225 ----------------------
227 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
229 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
230 folder and notmuch index.
232 `notmuch count --batch` option
234 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
235 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
237 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
239 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
240 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
241 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
244 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
246 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
247 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
248 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
249 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
250 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
253 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
255 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
256 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
258 Top level option to specify configuration file
260 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
261 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
263 Bash command-line completion
265 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
266 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
267 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
268 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
269 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
270 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
271 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
272 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
273 bash-completion package.
275 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
280 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
282 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
283 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
284 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
285 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
286 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
287 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
288 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
289 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
291 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
293 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
294 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
295 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
297 Key bindings for next/previous thread
299 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
300 previous thread in the search results.
302 Better handling of errors in search buffers
304 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
305 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
307 Faster search and show
309 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
310 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
311 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
312 threads should show faster.
316 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
317 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
318 in question was now removed from this release.
323 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
324 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
329 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
331 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
332 ===========================
337 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
339 Internal test framework changes
340 -------------------------------
342 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
345 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
346 ===========================
348 Internal test framework changes
349 -------------------------------
351 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
352 build failures in non-interactive environments.
354 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
355 =========================
360 Date range search support
362 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
363 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
364 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
365 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
366 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
369 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
371 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
372 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
373 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
374 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
375 but may be removed in a future release.
377 Command-Line Interface
378 ----------------------
380 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
382 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
383 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
385 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
387 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
388 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
389 officially deprecated.
391 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
393 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
394 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
395 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
397 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
399 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
400 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
403 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
404 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
407 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
409 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
410 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
411 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
413 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
415 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
416 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
417 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
419 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
421 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
422 output separated by null characters rather than newline
423 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
424 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
429 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
431 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
432 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
433 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
434 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
436 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
438 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
439 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
440 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
441 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
442 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
443 the behavior of this, see
444 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
445 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
447 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
448 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
449 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
451 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
453 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
454 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
457 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
459 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
460 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
461 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
462 simply displayed in place of the message.
464 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
466 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
467 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
469 Improved text/calendar content handling
471 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
472 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
473 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
474 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
476 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
478 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
479 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
480 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
481 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
483 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
485 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
486 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
487 for HTML email containing images.
489 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
491 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
493 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
495 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
498 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
500 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
501 the point where it was.
503 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
505 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
506 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
507 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
508 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
509 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
511 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
513 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
514 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
515 thread instead of the message id.
517 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
518 -----------------------------
520 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
521 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
522 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
523 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
524 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
525 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
526 further details and installation.
531 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
533 Internal test framework changes
534 -------------------------------
536 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
538 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
539 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
540 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
541 can result in buggy behavior.
543 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
544 =========================
549 Maildir tag synchronization
551 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
552 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
553 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
554 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
555 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
556 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
559 Command-Line Interface
560 ----------------------
562 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
563 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
564 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
565 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
566 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
572 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
574 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
576 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
577 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
578 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
580 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
582 It is now possible to embed newlines in
583 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
586 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
588 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
589 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
590 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
591 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
592 inside the result or message.
594 Search now uses the JSON format internally
596 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
597 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
599 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
600 user-specified formatting
602 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
603 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
604 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
605 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
606 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
608 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
609 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
611 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
612 ===========================
617 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
618 compilation error for this contrib package.
620 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
621 ===========================
626 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
628 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
629 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
630 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
631 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
633 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
634 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
637 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
638 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
639 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
640 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
643 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
645 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
648 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
649 =========================
651 Command-Line Interface
652 ----------------------
656 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
657 for a reply message and full information about the original message
658 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
659 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
661 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
662 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
663 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
664 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
668 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
669 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
671 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
672 tag in your query, for example:
674 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
676 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
677 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
679 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
680 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
682 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
684 Raw show format changes
686 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
687 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
688 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
689 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
690 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
691 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
692 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
693 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
695 Listing configuration items
697 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
703 Changes to tagging interface
705 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
706 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
707 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
708 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
709 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
710 for more information.
712 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
713 may need to update in custom configurations.
715 Reply improvement using the JSON format
717 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
718 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
719 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
720 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
723 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
724 -----------------------------
726 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
727 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
728 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
729 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
730 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
731 contrib/ from now on.
736 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
737 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
739 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
740 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
742 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
743 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
744 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
746 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
747 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
749 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
750 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
751 returning the new database object or directory object.
758 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
759 compatible with go 1.
761 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
762 =========================
764 Command-Line Interface
765 ----------------------
769 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
770 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
771 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
772 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
774 Mail store folder/file ignore
776 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
777 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
778 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
780 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
781 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
783 Unified help and manual pages
785 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
786 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
789 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
791 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
792 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
800 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
801 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
802 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
803 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
805 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
807 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
808 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
810 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
813 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
814 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
815 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
817 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
819 should be changed to:
821 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
823 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
825 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
826 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
828 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
830 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
831 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
832 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
833 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
834 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
835 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
839 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
840 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
841 of Mailing List Archives.
843 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
845 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
846 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
849 Show view archiving key binding changes
851 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
852 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
853 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
854 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
855 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
858 Support text/calendar MIME type
860 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
863 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
865 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
866 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
867 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
868 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
870 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
872 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
873 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
874 messages blue by default in the search view.
878 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
879 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
886 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
889 Python bindings changes
890 -----------------------
892 Python 3.2 compatibility
894 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
896 Added missing unicode conversions
898 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
899 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
900 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
905 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
907 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
908 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
909 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
910 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
911 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
913 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
914 ===========================
919 Fix error handling in python bindings
921 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
922 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
923 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
924 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
926 Quote MML tags in replies
928 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
929 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
930 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
931 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
932 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
933 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
934 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
935 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
937 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
938 =========================
940 Command-Line Interface
941 ----------------------
945 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
946 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
947 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
948 importing new messages into the database.
950 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
952 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
953 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
954 sometimes. This is now fixed.
959 Automatic tag query optimization
961 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
962 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
963 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
965 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
967 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
968 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
969 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
974 Reduction of memory leaks
976 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
977 and fixed in this release.
984 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
985 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
986 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
989 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
991 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
992 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
993 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
996 Improvements in saved search management
998 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
999 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1000 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1002 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1004 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1005 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1006 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1008 New face for crypto parts headers
1010 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1011 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1012 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1015 Use space as default thousands separator
1017 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1018 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1019 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1021 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1022 buttonized id: links
1024 New function notmuch-show-advance
1026 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1027 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1028 be bound to SPC with:
1030 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1032 Various performance improvements
1037 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1038 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1041 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1042 ===========================
1047 Fix crash in python bindings
1049 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1050 for some, but not all users.
1052 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1053 ===========================
1058 Fix `--help` argument
1060 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1061 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1062 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1064 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1065 =========================
1067 New build and testing features
1068 ------------------------------
1070 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1071 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1072 prerequisites is improved.
1074 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1076 New command-line features
1077 -------------------------
1079 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1081 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1082 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1085 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1087 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1088 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1089 favour of using stdout.
1091 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1093 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1094 limit the number of results shown.
1096 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1098 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1099 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1102 New emacs UI features
1103 ---------------------
1105 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1107 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1108 starting with "tag:".
1110 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1112 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1113 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1115 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1117 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1119 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1121 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1122 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1127 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1129 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1131 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1132 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1133 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1134 requires a database rebuild:
1136 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1137 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1139 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1141 New collection of add-on tools
1142 ------------------------------
1144 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1145 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1146 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1149 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1151 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1152 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1153 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1155 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1156 ========================
1158 New, general features
1159 ---------------------
1161 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1163 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1164 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1165 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1166 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1167 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1174 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1175 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1177 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1181 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1182 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1183 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1186 Python bindings changes
1187 -----------------------
1189 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1191 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1192 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1193 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1194 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1195 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1196 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1198 Ruby bindings changes
1199 ---------------------
1201 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1202 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1203 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1204 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1209 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1211 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1212 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1214 Reply formatting cleanup
1215 ------------------------
1217 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1218 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1220 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1221 ========================
1223 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1225 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1226 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1227 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1228 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1231 Improved Build system portability
1233 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1234 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1235 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1237 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1239 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1241 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1243 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1244 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1245 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1247 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1248 ========================
1250 Vim interface improvements
1251 --------------------------
1253 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1255 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1256 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1257 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1258 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1259 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1261 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1263 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1264 * fix compose temp file name
1266 Python Bindings changes
1267 -----------------------
1269 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1271 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1272 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1274 Build-System improvements
1275 -------------------------
1277 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1279 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1282 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1283 ==========================
1288 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1290 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1291 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1293 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1294 =======================
1296 New, general features
1297 ---------------------
1299 Folder-based searching
1301 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1302 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1303 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1307 For example, one might use things such as:
1313 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1314 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1316 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1317 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1318 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1319 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1321 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1322 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1323 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1326 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1327 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1329 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1331 Support for PGP/MIME
1333 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1334 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1335 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1337 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1339 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1340 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1342 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1343 notmuch will receive these tags.
1345 New command-line features
1346 -------------------------
1348 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1350 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1351 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1353 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1355 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1356 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1357 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1359 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1361 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1362 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1363 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1364 which parts a signature part applies).
1366 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1368 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1369 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1370 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1371 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1372 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1375 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1377 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1378 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1379 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1380 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1381 by translating it internally to the new call.
1383 Performance improvements
1384 ------------------------
1386 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1388 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1389 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1390 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1392 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1393 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1395 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1397 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1398 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1399 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1401 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1402 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1403 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1404 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1406 Faster initial indexing
1408 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1409 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1410 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1412 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1414 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1415 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1416 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1417 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1419 New emacs-interface features
1420 ----------------------------
1422 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1424 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1425 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1426 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1427 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1428 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1429 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1431 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1433 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1434 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1435 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1436 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1438 User-selectable From address
1440 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1441 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1442 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1443 will prompt for the from address to use.
1445 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1446 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1447 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1449 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1450 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1451 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1454 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1456 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1457 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1459 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1461 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1463 ----- Original Message -----
1465 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1466 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1467 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1468 citations work much like conventional citations.
1470 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1472 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1473 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1474 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1475 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1476 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1478 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1479 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1481 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1483 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1484 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1485 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1487 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1489 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1490 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1491 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1492 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1493 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1495 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1497 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1500 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1502 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1504 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1506 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1509 Vim interface improvements
1510 --------------------------
1512 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1514 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1515 * Implementing archive in show view
1516 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1517 * Add delete commands
1520 Bindings improvements
1521 ---------------------
1523 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1525 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1526 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1528 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1530 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1534 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1535 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1536 `list(Messages)` works now
1537 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1539 These allow, for example:
1541 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1543 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1545 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1551 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1553 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1556 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1558 New build-system features
1559 -------------------------
1561 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1563 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1564 the configure script from some other directory:
1571 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1573 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1574 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1575 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1576 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1577 manual invocation of configure.
1579 New test-suite feature
1580 ----------------------
1582 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1584 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1585 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1586 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1587 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1588 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1591 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1593 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1594 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1595 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1596 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1597 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1598 are updated to take advantage of this.
1600 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1602 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1603 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1604 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1605 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1611 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1613 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1614 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1615 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1617 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1619 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1621 to:user@elsewhere.com
1623 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1625 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1627 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1629 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1630 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1631 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1634 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1635 from the Received headers in some cases
1637 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1638 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1640 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1642 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1644 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1646 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1647 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1648 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1650 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1651 -------------------------
1653 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1655 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1656 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1657 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1659 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1661 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1662 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1663 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1666 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1668 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1669 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1670 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1671 fixed to avoid this bug.
1673 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1675 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1676 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1678 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1679 ========================
1681 New, general features
1682 ---------------------
1684 Maildir-flag synchronization
1686 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1687 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1696 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1698 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1699 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1700 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1701 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1703 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1704 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1705 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1706 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1709 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1711 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1712 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1713 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1715 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1716 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1718 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1719 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1721 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1722 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1723 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1725 New library features
1726 --------------------
1728 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1730 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1731 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1732 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1733 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1735 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1736 message with the new function:
1738 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1740 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1741 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1742 over all available filenames for a given message.
1744 New command-line features
1745 -------------------------
1747 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1749 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1750 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1751 access to the mail store itself.
1753 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1754 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1755 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1756 name of a script containing:
1758 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1760 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1761 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1767 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1769 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1771 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1773 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1774 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1775 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1776 now produces nothing).
1778 Emacs interface improvements
1779 ----------------------------
1781 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1783 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1785 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1787 Display current thread subject in a header line
1789 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1791 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1793 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1794 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1795 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1796 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1797 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1798 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1799 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1801 Vim interface improvements
1802 --------------------------
1804 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1806 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1807 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1813 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1815 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1816 ========================
1818 New command-line features
1819 -------------------------
1821 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1823 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1824 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1825 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1827 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1828 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1829 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1830 scripts. For example:
1832 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1833 <operations-on> "$file"
1836 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1838 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1839 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1840 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1841 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1842 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1843 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1845 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1847 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1848 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1849 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1850 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1852 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1854 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1855 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1856 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1857 default rather than Bcc.
1859 New library features
1860 --------------------
1862 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1864 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1865 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1870 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1872 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1873 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1874 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1875 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1876 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1877 notmuch customize interface.
1879 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1881 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1882 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1883 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1884 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1886 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1888 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1889 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1890 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1891 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1893 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1895 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1896 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1897 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1898 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1899 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1900 notmuch customize interface.
1902 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1904 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1905 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1906 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1907 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1908 notmuch customize interface.
1910 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1912 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1913 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1914 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1915 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1918 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1920 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1921 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1922 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1925 New build-system features
1926 -------------------------
1928 Various portability fixes have been applied
1930 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1931 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1932 more portable than ever before.
1934 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1936 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1937 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1938 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1940 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1941 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1942 automatically run ldconfig.
1944 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1945 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1946 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1948 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1949 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1950 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1951 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1953 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1955 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1956 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1957 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1958 used in the resulting Makefile.
1960 New test-suite features
1961 -----------------------
1963 New modularization of test suite
1965 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1966 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1967 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1968 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1969 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1970 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1971 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1972 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1974 New testing of emacs interface
1976 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1977 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1978 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1979 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1980 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1981 database via the FCC setting.
1986 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1988 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1989 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1990 persistent error of the form:
1992 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1994 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1995 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1997 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1999 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2000 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2001 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2003 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2005 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2006 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2007 parsing the notmuch results).
2009 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2011 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2014 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2015 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2016 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2021 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2023 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2024 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2025 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2026 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2027 the emacs interface.
2029 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2031 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2032 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2033 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2035 Python-binding fixes
2036 --------------------
2038 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2040 Debian-specific fixes
2041 ---------------------
2043 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2045 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2046 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2047 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2050 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2051 ==========================
2056 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2058 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2059 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2060 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2061 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2063 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2065 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2066 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2067 want notmuch to crash.
2072 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2074 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2075 directory does not exist
2080 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2082 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2083 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2085 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2086 ========================
2088 New command-line features
2089 -------------------------
2091 User-configurable tags for new messages
2093 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2094 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2095 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2096 to specify this value.
2098 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2100 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2101 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2102 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2104 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2106 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2107 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2109 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2111 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2112 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2113 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2114 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2115 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2118 Indication of author names that match a search
2120 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2121 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2122 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2123 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2124 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2125 messages in the thread are listed first.
2127 New: Python bindings
2128 --------------------
2130 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2131 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2132 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2133 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2135 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2136 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2137 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2140 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2141 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2142 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2144 Emacs interface improvements
2145 ----------------------------
2147 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2149 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2150 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2151 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2152 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2153 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2154 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2155 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2156 but without any of the disadvantages).
2158 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2159 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2160 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2163 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2164 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2165 instead running something like:
2167 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2169 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2170 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2171 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2174 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2176 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2177 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2178 tweaked by the user.
2180 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2181 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2182 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2185 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2186 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2187 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2190 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2192 This support currently relies on an external program,
2193 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2194 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2195 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2196 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2197 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2200 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2201 notmuch) is available via:
2203 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2205 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2206 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2207 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2209 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2211 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2212 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2213 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2214 making this automatic in a future release.
2216 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2218 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2219 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2220 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2221 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2222 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2223 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2226 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2228 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2229 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2230 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2232 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2234 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2235 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2236 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2238 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2239 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2240 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2241 other representation.
2243 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2244 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2247 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2249 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2250 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2251 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2253 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2254 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2255 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2257 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2259 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2260 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2261 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2262 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2263 to display the search result.
2265 More flexible handling of header visibility
2267 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2268 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2269 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2270 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2271 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2272 with the 'h' keybinding.
2274 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2275 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2276 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2278 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2280 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2282 Customizable formatting of search results
2284 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2285 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2286 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2288 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2290 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2292 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2297 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2299 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2300 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2301 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2302 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2308 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2310 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2311 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2313 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2315 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2316 accept are now all accepted.
2321 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2323 Better display of output from failed tests
2325 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2326 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2328 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2329 ========================
2331 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2332 detailed release notes this time!
2334 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2335 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2337 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2338 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2339 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2340 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2347 Better guessing of From: header
2349 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2350 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2351 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2352 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2353 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2356 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2358 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2359 guaranteed to match all messages.
2361 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2363 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2364 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2365 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2366 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2367 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2370 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2373 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2374 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2375 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2376 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2381 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2383 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2384 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2385 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2386 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2388 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2390 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2392 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2393 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2394 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2396 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2398 Previously, the user might see:
2400 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2404 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2406 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2407 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2408 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2409 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2411 Emacs client features
2412 ---------------------
2414 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2416 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2417 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2418 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2419 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2420 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2422 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2425 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2426 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2427 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2428 search with the '*' binding.
2430 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2432 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2433 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2436 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2438 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2439 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2440 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2442 Build-system features
2443 ---------------------
2445 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2447 Add support to configure for many standard options
2449 We include actual support for:
2451 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2453 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2455 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2456 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2458 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2459 separate "make install-emacs"
2461 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2463 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2464 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2465 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2467 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2470 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2471 ========================
2473 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2475 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2476 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2478 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2479 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2480 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2481 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2482 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2483 tags from messages in a thread.
2490 indent-tabs-mode: nil