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Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
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Vim interface improvements
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Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
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* fix citation/signature fold lengths
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* fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
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* fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
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* fix from list reformatting in search view
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* fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
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Uwe Kleine-König contributed
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* use full path for sendmail/doc fix
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* fix compose temp file name
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Python Bindings changes
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Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
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* message tags are now explicitly unicode
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* query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
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Build-System improvments
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Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
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This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
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patch.
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Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
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==========================
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Bug-fix release.
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----------------
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Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
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It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
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people running gcc 4.4.5.
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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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Folder-based searching
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Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
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directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
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storage). The syntax is as follows:
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folder:<path>
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For example, one might use things such as:
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folder:spam
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folder:2011-*
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folder:work/todo
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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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delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
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Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
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NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
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notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
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this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
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rebuilt as follows:
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notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
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# Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
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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.
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New command-line features
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Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
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This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
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PGP/MIME-signed parts.
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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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MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
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MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
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analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
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which parts a signature part applies).
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Add new "notmuch show --part" option
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This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
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is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
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documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
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of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
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part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
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formatting).
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Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
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The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
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addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
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make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
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it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
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by translating it internally to the new call.
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Performance improvements
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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 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 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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optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
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of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
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1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
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Faster initial indexing
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More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
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speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
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rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
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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 Karel Zak.
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New emacs-interface features
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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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"git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
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from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
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previously they were silently hidden from the user).
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User-selectable From address
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A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
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the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
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press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
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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 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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when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
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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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----- Original Message -----
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emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
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(allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
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button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
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citations work much like conventional citations.
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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. 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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Notmuch After Tag Hook
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New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
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Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
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multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
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text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
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Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
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to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
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automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
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parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
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because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
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part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
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Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
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These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
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emacs diary.
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Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
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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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* 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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Ruby bindings are now much more complete
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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 have been upodated and extended
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(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
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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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- Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
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These allow, for example:
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if msg1 == msg2: ...
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As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
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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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Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
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This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
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the configure script from some other directory:
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mkdir build
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cd build
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../configure
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make
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Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
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When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
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"make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
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this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
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the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
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manual invocation of configure.
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New test-suite feature
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Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
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The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
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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 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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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 advantage of this.
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Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
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The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
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allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
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some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
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due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
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General bug fixes
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Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
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For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
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previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
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command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
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Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
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This fixed a bug where a search for:
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to:user@elsewhere.com
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would incorrectly match a message sent:
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To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
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Fix --output=json when search has no results
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A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
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to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
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return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
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expected.
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fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
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from the Received headers in some cases.
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Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
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sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
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Cleaned up several memory leaks
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Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
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Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
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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 intended to be exported.
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Emacs-interface bug fixes
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Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
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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 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 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 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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(potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
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fixed to avoid this bug.
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Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
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Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
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fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
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Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
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New, general features
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Maildir-flag synchronization
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Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
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tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
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supported:
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Flag <-> Tag
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---- -----
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'D' draft
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'F' flagged
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'P' passed
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'R' replied
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'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
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The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
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the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
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adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
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renamed with an 'R' flag).
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This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
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command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
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"cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
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new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
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example:
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notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
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Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
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accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
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[maildir] section added to the configuration file.
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For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
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functionality is available with the following two new functions:
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notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
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notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
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It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
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allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
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tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
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New library features
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Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
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It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
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same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
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duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
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notmuch_message_get_filename).
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With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
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message with the new function:
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notmuch_message_get_filenames
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Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
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notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
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all available filenames for a given message.
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New command-line features
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New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
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This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
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built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
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access to the mail store itself.
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For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
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machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
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do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
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name of a script containing:
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ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
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If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
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option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
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way.
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General bug fixes
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Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
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The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
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notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
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would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
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versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
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the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
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now produces nothing).
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Emacs interface improvements
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Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
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Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
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Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
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Display current thread subject in a header line.
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Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
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Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
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Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
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different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
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string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
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cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
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address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
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the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
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of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
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Vim interface improvements
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--------------------------
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Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
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These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
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support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
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various cleanups.
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New bindings
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------------
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Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
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Notmuch 0.4 (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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specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
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format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
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beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
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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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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
|
|
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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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
|
|
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
|
|
that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
|
|
notmuch customize interface.
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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,
|
|
both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
|
|
case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
|
|
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
|
|
in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
|
|
available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
|
|
searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
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|
names.
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|
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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
|
|
various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
|
|
etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
|
|
opposite direction.
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|
|
New build-system features
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
Various portability fixes have been applied
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|
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These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
|
|
and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
|
|
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
|
|
errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
|
|
after installing. This support takes two forms:
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|
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1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
|
|
(configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
|
|
automatically run ldconfig.
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2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
|
|
build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
|
|
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
|
|
immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
|
|
the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
|
|
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
|
|
compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
|
|
embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
|
|
used in the resulting Makefile.
|
|
|
|
New test-suite features
|
|
-----------------------
|
|
New modularization of test suite.
|
|
|
|
Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
|
|
from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
|
|
provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
|
|
rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
|
|
test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
|
|
(BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
|
|
it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
|
|
notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
|
|
|
|
New testing of emacs interface.
|
|
|
|
The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
|
|
emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
|
|
threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
|
|
message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
|
|
and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
|
|
database via the FCC setting.
|
|
|
|
General bug fixes
|
|
-----------------
|
|
Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
|
|
|
|
Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
|
|
in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
|
|
persistent error of the form:
|
|
|
|
document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
|
|
|
|
The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
|
|
avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
|
|
|
|
Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
|
|
|
|
Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
|
|
than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
|
|
Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
|
|
|
|
Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
|
|
|
|
Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
|
|
GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
|
|
parsing the notmuch results).
|
|
|
|
Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
|
|
|
|
Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
|
|
|
|
Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
|
|
exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
|
|
returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
|
|
|
|
Emacs bug fixes
|
|
---------------
|
|
Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
|
|
|
|
Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
|
|
square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
|
|
output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
|
|
mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
|
|
the emacs interface.
|
|
|
|
Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
|
|
|
|
The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
|
|
Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
|
|
misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
|
|
|
|
Python-binding fixes
|
|
--------------------
|
|
The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
|
|
|
|
Debian-specific fixes
|
|
---------------------
|
|
Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
|
|
|
|
Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
|
|
"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
|
|
edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
|
|
work.
|
|
|
|
Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
|
|
==========================
|
|
General bug fixes
|
|
-----------------
|
|
Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
|
|
|
|
This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
|
|
user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
|
|
the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
|
|
was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
|
|
|
|
Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
|
|
|
|
This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
|
|
Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
|
|
want notmuch to crash.
|
|
|
|
Emacs bug fixes
|
|
---------------
|
|
Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
|
|
|
|
Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
|
|
directory does not exist.
|
|
|
|
Build fix
|
|
---------
|
|
Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
|
|
|
|
Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
|
|
final linking of notmuch would fail.
|
|
|
|
Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
|
|
========================
|
|
New command-line features
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
User-configurable tags for new messages
|
|
|
|
A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
|
|
determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
|
|
setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
|
|
to specify this value.
|
|
|
|
Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
|
|
|
|
This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
|
|
read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
|
|
subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
|
|
|
|
Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
|
|
|
|
Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
|
|
things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
|
|
|
|
Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
|
|
|
|
Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
|
|
the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
|
|
several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
|
|
mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
|
|
replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
|
|
header).
|
|
|
|
Indication of author names that match a search
|
|
|
|
When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
|
|
lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
|
|
authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
|
|
matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
|
|
a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
|
|
messages in the thread are listed first.
|
|
|
|
New: Python bindings
|
|
--------------------
|
|
Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
|
|
library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
|
|
known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
|
|
accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
|
|
|
|
The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
|
|
python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
|
|
searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
|
|
and other tasks.
|
|
|
|
These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
|
|
are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
|
|
package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
|
|
|
|
Emacs interface improvements
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
|
|
|
|
Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
|
|
by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
|
|
bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
|
|
recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
|
|
a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
|
|
searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
|
|
(providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
|
|
but without any of the disadvantages).
|
|
|
|
Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
|
|
exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
|
|
search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
|
|
away.
|
|
|
|
Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
|
|
immediately displaying a particular search result, we
|
|
recommend instead running something like:
|
|
|
|
emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
|
|
|
|
The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
|
|
(as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
|
|
leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
|
|
order.
|
|
|
|
Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
|
|
|
|
Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
|
|
much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
|
|
tweaked by the user.
|
|
|
|
You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
|
|
emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
|
|
"Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
|
|
"notmuch".
|
|
|
|
Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
|
|
options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
|
|
selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
|
|
settings.
|
|
|
|
Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
|
|
|
|
This support currently relies on an external program,
|
|
(notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
|
|
itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
|
|
already been written that generate address completions by doing
|
|
notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
|
|
first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
|
|
past, etc.
|
|
|
|
One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
|
|
notmuch) is available via:
|
|
|
|
git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
|
|
|
|
Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
|
|
hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
|
|
line of an email message will provide matching completions.
|
|
|
|
Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
|
|
|
|
This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
|
|
set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
|
|
screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
|
|
making this automatic in a future release.
|
|
|
|
New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
|
|
|
|
The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
|
|
it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
|
|
run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
|
|
script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
|
|
Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
|
|
typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
|
|
tag" commands.
|
|
|
|
Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
|
|
|
|
This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
|
|
some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
|
|
characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
|
|
|
|
Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
|
|
|
|
Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
|
|
inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
|
|
the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
|
|
|
|
Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
|
|
and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
|
|
future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
|
|
other representation.
|
|
|
|
Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
|
|
saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
|
|
attachments).
|
|
|
|
Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
|
|
|
|
Many new functions are available for tidying up message
|
|
content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
|
|
compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
|
|
|
|
Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
|
|
clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
|
|
Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
|
|
|
|
New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
|
|
|
|
When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
|
|
these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
|
|
"incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
|
|
of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
|
|
to display the search result.
|
|
|
|
More flexible handling of header visibility
|
|
|
|
As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
|
|
headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
|
|
that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
|
|
Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
|
|
visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
|
|
with the 'h' keybinding.
|
|
|
|
For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
|
|
new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
|
|
only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
|
|
|
|
The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
|
|
|
|
Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
|
|
|
|
Customizable formatting of search results
|
|
|
|
The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
|
|
the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
|
|
Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
|
|
|
|
Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
|
|
|
|
Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
|
|
|
|
New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
|
|
|
|
New library feature
|
|
-------------------
|
|
Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
|
|
|
|
This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
|
|
example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
|
|
manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
|
|
messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
|
|
date.
|
|
|
|
Build fixes
|
|
-----------
|
|
Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
|
|
|
|
Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
|
|
though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
|
|
|
|
Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
|
|
|
|
For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
|
|
accept are now all accepted.
|
|
|
|
Test suite
|
|
----------
|
|
A large number of new tests for the many new features.
|
|
|
|
Better display of output from failed tests.
|
|
|
|
Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
|
|
complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
|
|
|
|
Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
|
|
========================
|
|
This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
|
|
detailed release notes this time!
|
|
|
|
This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
|
|
notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
|
|
release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
|
|
better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
|
|
notmuch in subsequent releases.
|
|
|
|
-Carl
|
|
|
|
General features
|
|
----------------
|
|
Better guessing of From: header.
|
|
|
|
Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
|
|
used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
|
|
Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
|
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or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
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replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
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configured address.
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Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
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Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
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guaranteed to match all messages.
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Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
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This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
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"notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
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shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
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support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
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search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
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other search terms.
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Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
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missing.
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Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
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parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
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not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
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so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
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General bug fixes
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-----------------
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Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
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One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
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SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
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the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
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Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
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Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
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Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
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Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
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silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
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of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
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Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
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Previously, the user might see:
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Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
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rather than:
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Subject: Re: Rozlučka
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The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
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be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
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recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
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unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
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Emacs client features
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---------------------
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Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
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It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
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being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
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important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
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citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
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notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
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The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
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tags by region.
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Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
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threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
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tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
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search with the '*' binding.
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More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
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Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
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name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
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number to the user.
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Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
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See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
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customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
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and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
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Build-system features
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---------------------
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Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
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Add support to configure for many standard options.
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We include actual support for:
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--includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
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And accept and silently ignore several more:
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--build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
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--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
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Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
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separate "make install-emacs".
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Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
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This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
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0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
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0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
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Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
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its results.
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Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
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========================
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This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
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It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
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interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
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Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
|
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1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
|
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a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
|
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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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