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NEWS: Update for release 0.6
Fix some typos, add some notes on python bindings, "improve" the folder searching
description, expand the discussion of crypto changes.
This includes the changes from
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Thanks to Sebastian, Austin, and Uwe, Dmitry for the editing help.
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NEWS
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NEWS
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Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-XX)
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Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
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=======================
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New, general features
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---------------------
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@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ Folder-based searching
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For example, one might use things such as:
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folder:spam
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folder:2011/06
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folder:2011-*
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folder:work/todo
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or anything else that matches directories within your mail storage.
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to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
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containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
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This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
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software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
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@ -32,15 +34,19 @@ Folder-based searching
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notmuch new
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notmuch restore notmuch.dump
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Support for PGP/MIME
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Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
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support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
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New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
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These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
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multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
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NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
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notmuch will receive these tags. In order to enable this feature for
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all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be rebuilt (see
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above).
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notmuch will receive these tags.
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New command-line features
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-------------------------
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@ -52,6 +58,8 @@ Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
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Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
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This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
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Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
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tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
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Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
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@ -79,19 +87,19 @@ Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
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Performance improvements
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------------------------
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Faster searches (by doing fewer serches to construct threads)
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Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
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Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
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performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
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additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
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Removing inefficiences and redundancies in these secondary searches
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Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
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results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
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Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
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Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
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all message-document data rather than a ps for each data type)
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all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
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results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
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The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
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@ -110,11 +118,20 @@ Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
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Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
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when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
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last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
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new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Austin Clements
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and Karel Zak.
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new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
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New emacs-interface features
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----------------------------
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Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
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Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
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messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
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multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
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notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
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needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
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Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
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Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
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This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
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@ -130,7 +147,7 @@ User-selectable From address
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will prompt for the from address to use.
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The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
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notmuch cutomize group in order to use addresses other than those in
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notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
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the notmuch configuration file if desired.
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The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
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the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
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customize group.
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Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
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In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
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its parent, the subject is not shown.
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Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
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When a message contains a line looking something like:
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@ -154,7 +176,7 @@ New hooks for running code when tags are modified
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Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
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tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
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example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
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tool. T facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
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tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
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modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
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Notmuch Before Tag Hook
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@ -181,24 +203,20 @@ Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
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Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
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Replacing all characters with ACII code less than 32 with a question mark.
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Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
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Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
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and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
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Vim interface improvements
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Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
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Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
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Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
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Implementing archive in show view
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Add support to mark as read in show and search views
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Add delete commands
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Various cleanups.
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* Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
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* Implementing archive in show view
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* Add support to mark as read in show and search views
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* Add delete commands
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* Various cleanups.
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Bindings improvements
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Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
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MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
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Python bindings are now much more complete
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* Python bindings have been upodated and extended
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(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
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Including Message().get_filenames(),
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Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(), Threads().__nonzero__,
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Tags().__nonzero__()
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New bindings:
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- Message().get_filenames(),
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- Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
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- list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
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Also implement Message.__cmp__ and __hash__
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- Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
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These allow, for example:
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if msg1 == msg2
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if msg1 == msg2: ...
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As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
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s1, s2= msgs1, msgs2
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s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
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s1.union(s2)
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s2 -= s1
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Removed:
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- len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
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Use len(list(Messages())) or
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Query.count_messages() to get the length.
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Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
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New build-system features
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bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
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/bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
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the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
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simply install bash >= 4 somwhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
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simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
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the test suite.
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Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
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Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
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presense/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
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presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
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has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
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test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
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any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
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are updated to take advnatage of this.
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are updated to take advantage of this.
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Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
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Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
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C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
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interface and were never intented to be exported.
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interface and were never intended to be exported.
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Emacs-interface bug fixes
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Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
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silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
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very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug decribed below.
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very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
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Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
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When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
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interface was incorrectly dropping one thread everytime the output
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of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacss read-buffer. This
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interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
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of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
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is now fixed.
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Avoid rec-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
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Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
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Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
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re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
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tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
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notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
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tags from messages in a thread.
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