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NEWS: Add notes for the 0.4.0 release
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Notmuch 0.4.0 (2010-11-01)
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==========================
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New command-line features
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-------------------------
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notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
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This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
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notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
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just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
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The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
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tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
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expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
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scripts. For example:
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for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
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<operations-on> "$file"
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done
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notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
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This new option allows for the messages matching a search
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@ -9,33 +26,201 @@ notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
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beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
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followed by the 5 characters "From ".
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notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
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The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
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notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
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single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
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custom items stored in the configuration file.
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Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
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We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
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user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
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see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
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default rather than Bcc.
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New library features
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--------------------
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Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
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These are simply functions for querying properties of a
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notmuch_query_t object.
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New emacs features
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------------------
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Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches
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Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
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All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
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notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
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by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
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"sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
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can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
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notmuch customize interface.
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Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
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Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
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to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
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argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
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messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
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Optional support for detecting inline patches
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This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
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under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch
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customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and
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treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive
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highlighting).
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under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
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interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
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as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
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Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
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This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be
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customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user
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might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to
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automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message
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Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface.
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Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
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"replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
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other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
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"needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
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that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
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notmuch customize interface.
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Emacs mail improvements
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Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
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For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
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lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
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both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
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case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
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notmuch customize interface.
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Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
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When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
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in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
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available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
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searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
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names.
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New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
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Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
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various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
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etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
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opposite direction.
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New build-system features
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Various portability fixes have been applied
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These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
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and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
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more portable than ever before.
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Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
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The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
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errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
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after installing. This support takes two forms:
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1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
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(configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
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automatically run ldconfig.
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2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
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build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
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pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
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When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
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immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
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the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
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variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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Check compiler/linker options before using them
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The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
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compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
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embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
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used in the resulting Makefile.
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New test-suite features
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Easier way to define a fcc directory
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New modularization of test suite.
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In the common case that a user only has one FCC (save outgoing mail
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in the Mail directory, it is now possible to simply configure a
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string such as "Sent" in the notmuch-fcc-dirs variable. More complex
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options, depending on a users email address, are possible and
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described in the variable customization help text.
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Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
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from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
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provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
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rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
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test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
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(BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
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it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
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notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
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New testing of emacs interface.
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The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
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emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
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threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
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message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
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and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
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database via the FCC setting.
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General bug fixes
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Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
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Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
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in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
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persistent error of the form:
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document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
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The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
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avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
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Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
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Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
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than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
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Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
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Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
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Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
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GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
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parsing the notmuch results).
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Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
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Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
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Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
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exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
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returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
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Emacs bug fixes
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Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
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Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
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square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
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output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
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mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
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the emacs interface.
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Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
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The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
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Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
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misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
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Python-binding fixes
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The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
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Debian-specific fixes
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Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
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Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
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"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
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edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
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work.
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Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
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