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Notmuch 0.14 (xxxx-xx-xx)
=========================
General bug fixes
-----------------
Maildir tag synchronization
Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
tag).
Emacs Interface
---------------
Search now uses the JSON format internally
This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
user-specified formatting
Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
compilation error for this contrib package.
Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
`notmuch_database_get_directory` and
`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
databases
Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
as documented.
Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
not work well.
Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
JSON reply format
`notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
for a reply message and full information about the original message
begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
Tag exclusion
Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
tag in your query, for example:
notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
Raw show format changes
The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
Listing configuration items
The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
their values.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Changes to tagging interface
The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
for more information.
NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
may need to update in custom configurations.
Reply improvement using the JSON format
Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
available.
New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
-----------------------------
The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
`mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
contrib/ from now on.
Library changes
---------------
The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
`notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
database and thus release the lock associated with it without
destroying the data structures obtained from it.
`notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
`notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
returning the new database object or directory object.
Go bindings changes
-------------------
Go 1 compatibility
The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
compatible with go 1.
Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Reply to sender
`notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
`--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
Mail store folder/file ignore
A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
Unified help and manual pages
The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
MANPATH.
Manual page for notmuch configuration options
The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
itself.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Reply to sender
The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
More flexible and consistent tagging operations
All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
'+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
'*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
notmuch-show view.
`notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
(notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
should be changed to:
(notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
New functions
`notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
of Mailing List Archives.
Fix MML tag quoting in replies
The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
cited message.
Show view archiving key binding changes
The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
"inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
'X'.
Support text/calendar MIME type
The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
text/x-vcalendar.
Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
messages blue by default in the search view.
Printing Support
notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
Library changes
---------------
New functions
`notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
feature.
Python bindings changes
-----------------------
Python 3.2 compatibility
The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
Added missing unicode conversions
Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
Build fixes
-----------
Compatibility with GMime 2.6
It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix error handling in python bindings
The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
Quote MML tags in replies
MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
(among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Hooks
Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
importing new messages into the database.
`notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
sometimes. This is now fixed.
Performance
-----------
Automatic tag query optimization
`notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
Memory Management
-----------------
Reduction of memory leaks
Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
and fixed in this release.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Bug fixes
notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
This is now fixed.
Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
scripts.
Improvements in saved search management
New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
Hooks for notmuch-hello
Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
New face for crypto parts headers
Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
other color themes.
Use space as default thousands separator
Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
buttonized id: links
New function notmuch-show-advance
This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
be bound to SPC with:
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
Various performance improvements
New add-on tool
---------------
The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix crash in python bindings
The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
for some, but not all users.
Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix `--help` argument
Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
`notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
This is fixed in 0.10.1.
Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
=========================
New build and testing features
------------------------------
Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
prerequisites is improved.
Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
New command-line features
-------------------------
Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
from the dump file.
Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
favour of using stdout.
Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
limit the number of results shown.
Add `notmuch count --output` option
The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
option.
New emacs UI features
---------------------
Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
These functions now support completion tags for query parts
starting with "tag:".
Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
Performance
-----------
Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
Search avoids opening and parsing message files
We now store more information in the database so search no longer
has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
requires a database rebuild:
notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
# Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
New collection of add-on tools
------------------------------
The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
mailing list.
nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
them to git in one location and restoring in another.
Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
========================
New, general features
---------------------
Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
`notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
Library changes
---------------
New functions
`notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
API changes
`notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
libnotmuch.so.2
Python bindings changes
-----------------------
- Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
libnotmuch.
- Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
- Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
- Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
- Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Ruby bindings changes
---------------------
- Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
- Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
- Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
- Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Emacs improvements
------------------
* Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
signing key.
* Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
Reply formatting cleanup
------------------------
`notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
MIME parts are being suppressed.
Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
========================
Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
soon).
Improved Build system portability
Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
Documentation update for Ruby bindings
Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
- PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
- Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
- Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
========================
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
* fix citation/signature fold lengths
* fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
* fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
* fix from list reformatting in search view
* fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
Uwe Kleine-König contributed
* use full path for sendmail/doc fix
* fix compose temp file name
Python Bindings changes
-----------------------
Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
* message tags are now explicitly unicode
* query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
Build-System improvements
-------------------------
Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
patch.
Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
==========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
people running gcc 4.4.5.
Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
=======================
New, general features
---------------------
Folder-based searching
Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
storage). The syntax is as follows:
folder:<path>
For example, one might use things such as:
folder:spam
folder:2011-*
folder:work/todo
to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
rebuilt as follows:
notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
# Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
Support for PGP/MIME
Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
notmuch will receive these tags.
New command-line features
-------------------------
Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
PGP/MIME-signed parts.
Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
which parts a signature part applies).
Add new "notmuch show --part" option
This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
formatting).
Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
by translating it internally to the new call.
Performance improvements
------------------------
Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
Faster initial indexing
More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
New emacs-interface features
----------------------------
Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
"git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
previously they were silently hidden from the user).
User-selectable From address
A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
will prompt for the from address to use.
The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
the notmuch configuration file if desired.
The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
customize group.
Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
its parent, the subject is not shown.
Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
----- Original Message -----
emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
(allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
citations work much like conventional citations.
New hooks for running code when tags are modified
Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
Notmuch Before Tag Hook
Notmuch After Tag Hook
New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
emacs diary.
Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
Cleaner display of From line in email messages
Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
the email address.
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
* Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
* Implementing archive in show view
* Add support to mark as read in show and search views
* Add delete commands
* Various cleanups.
Bindings improvements
---------------------
Ruby bindings are now much more complete
Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
`MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
Python bindings have been updated and extended
(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
New bindings:
- `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
`Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
`list(Messages)` works now
- `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
These allow, for example:
if msg1 == msg2: ...
As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
s1.union(s2)
s2 -= s1
Removed:
- `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
to get the length.
Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
-------------------------
Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
the configure script from some other directory:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
"make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
manual invocation of configure.