1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
20 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
21 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
22 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
23 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
24 `~/.emacs` with these.
26 Changed format for saved searches
28 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
29 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
30 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
31 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
34 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
35 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
36 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
37 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
39 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
40 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
41 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
43 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
44 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
45 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
46 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
47 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
49 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
51 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
52 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
53 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
55 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
57 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
58 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
59 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
60 message had been unread).
62 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
63 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
64 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
65 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
67 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
68 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
69 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
71 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
72 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
73 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
74 to tags already present.
78 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
79 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
80 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
81 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
82 these differ from each other.
83 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
85 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
87 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
88 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
89 for these Emacs versions.
91 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
93 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
94 newlines before calling notmuch count.
96 Bug fixes for sender identities
98 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
99 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
100 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
102 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
104 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
105 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
106 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
107 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
112 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
113 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
115 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
116 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
117 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
118 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
120 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
121 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
122 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
123 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
124 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
126 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
128 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
129 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
131 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
132 =========================
134 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
135 ---------------------------------------
137 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
138 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
139 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
140 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
141 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
142 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
143 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
147 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
148 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
150 Command-Line Interface
151 ----------------------
153 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
155 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
156 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
157 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
158 print for each message.
160 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
161 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
162 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
163 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
165 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
167 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
168 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
169 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
171 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
173 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
174 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
175 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
176 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
178 `notmuch compact` command
180 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
181 functionality through a more convenient interface than
182 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
183 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
184 move the compacted database into place.
189 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
191 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
192 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
193 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
194 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
195 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
196 and multiple threads.
200 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
202 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
203 search, show and tree mode itself)
205 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
208 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
209 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
211 Customising `notmuch-tree`
213 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
214 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
215 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
216 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
217 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
218 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
219 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
221 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
223 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
224 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
225 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
226 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
227 thread when the search was performed.
229 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
231 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
232 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
233 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
235 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
237 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
238 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
241 Built-in help improvements
243 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
244 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
245 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
247 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
249 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
250 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
251 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
253 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
255 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
256 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
258 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
260 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
261 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
262 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
263 to move some of them to the common keymap.
265 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
267 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
268 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
269 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
270 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
272 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
274 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
275 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
276 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
278 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
280 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
281 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
282 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
284 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
286 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
287 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
288 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
289 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
290 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
292 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
294 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
295 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
296 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
297 the body part of the message.
302 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
303 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
304 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
306 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
307 =========================
309 Command-Line Interface
310 ----------------------
312 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
314 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
315 folder and notmuch index.
317 `notmuch count --batch` option
319 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
320 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
322 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
324 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
325 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
326 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
329 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
331 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
332 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
333 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
334 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
335 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
338 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
340 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
341 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
343 Top level option to specify configuration file
345 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
346 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
348 Bash command-line completion
350 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
351 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
352 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
353 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
354 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
355 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
356 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
357 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
358 bash-completion package.
360 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
365 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
367 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
368 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
369 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
370 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
371 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
372 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
373 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
374 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
376 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
378 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
379 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
380 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
382 Key bindings for next/previous thread
384 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
385 previous thread in the search results.
387 Better handling of errors in search buffers
389 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
390 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
392 Faster search and show
394 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
395 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
396 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
397 threads should show faster.
401 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
402 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
403 in question was now removed from this release.
408 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
409 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
414 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
416 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
417 ===========================
422 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
424 Internal test framework changes
425 -------------------------------
427 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
430 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
431 ===========================
433 Internal test framework changes
434 -------------------------------
436 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
437 build failures in non-interactive environments.
439 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
440 =========================
445 Date range search support
447 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
448 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
449 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
450 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
451 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
454 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
456 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
457 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
458 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
459 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
460 but may be removed in a future release.
462 Command-Line Interface
463 ----------------------
465 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
467 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
468 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
470 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
472 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
473 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
474 officially deprecated.
476 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
478 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
479 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
480 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
482 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
484 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
485 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
488 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
489 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
492 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
494 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
495 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
496 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
498 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
500 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
501 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
502 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
504 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
506 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
507 output separated by null characters rather than newline
508 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
509 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
514 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
516 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
517 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
518 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
519 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
521 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
523 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
524 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
525 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
526 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
527 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
528 the behavior of this, see
529 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
530 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
532 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
533 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
534 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
536 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
538 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
539 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
542 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
544 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
545 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
546 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
547 simply displayed in place of the message.
549 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
551 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
552 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
554 Improved text/calendar content handling
556 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
557 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
558 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
559 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
561 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
563 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
564 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
565 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
566 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
568 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
570 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
571 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
572 for HTML email containing images.
574 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
576 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
578 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
580 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
583 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
585 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
586 the point where it was.
588 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
590 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
591 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
592 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
593 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
594 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
596 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
598 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
599 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
600 thread instead of the message id.
602 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
603 -----------------------------
605 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
606 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
607 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
608 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
609 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
610 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
611 further details and installation.
616 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
618 Internal test framework changes
619 -------------------------------
621 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
623 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
624 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
625 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
626 can result in buggy behavior.
628 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
629 =========================
634 Maildir tag synchronization
636 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
637 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
638 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
639 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
640 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
641 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
644 Command-Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
648 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
649 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
650 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
651 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
657 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
659 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
661 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
662 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
663 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
665 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
667 It is now possible to embed newlines in
668 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
671 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
673 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
674 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
675 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
676 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
677 inside the result or message.
679 Search now uses the JSON format internally
681 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
682 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
684 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
685 user-specified formatting
687 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
688 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
689 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
690 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
691 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
693 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
694 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
696 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
697 ===========================
702 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
703 compilation error for this contrib package.
705 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
706 ===========================
711 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
713 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
714 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
715 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
716 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
718 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
719 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
722 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
723 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
724 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
725 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
728 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
730 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
733 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
734 =========================
736 Command-Line Interface
737 ----------------------
741 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
742 for a reply message and full information about the original message
743 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
744 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
746 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
747 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
748 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
749 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
753 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
754 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
756 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
757 tag in your query, for example:
759 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
761 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
762 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
764 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
765 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
767 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
769 Raw show format changes
771 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
772 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
773 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
774 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
775 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
776 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
777 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
778 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
780 Listing configuration items
782 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
788 Changes to tagging interface
790 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
791 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
792 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
793 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
794 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
795 for more information.
797 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
798 may need to update in custom configurations.
800 Reply improvement using the JSON format
802 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
803 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
804 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
805 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
808 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
809 -----------------------------
811 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
812 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
813 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
814 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
815 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
816 contrib/ from now on.
821 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
822 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
824 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
825 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
827 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
828 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
829 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
831 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
832 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
834 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
835 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
836 returning the new database object or directory object.
843 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
844 compatible with go 1.
846 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
847 =========================
849 Command-Line Interface
850 ----------------------
854 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
855 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
856 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
857 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
859 Mail store folder/file ignore
861 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
862 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
863 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
865 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
866 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
868 Unified help and manual pages
870 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
871 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
874 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
876 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
877 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
885 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
886 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
887 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
888 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
890 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
892 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
893 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
895 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
898 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
899 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
900 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
902 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
904 should be changed to:
906 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
908 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
910 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
911 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
913 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
915 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
916 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
917 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
918 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
919 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
920 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
924 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
925 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
926 of Mailing List Archives.
928 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
930 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
931 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
934 Show view archiving key binding changes
936 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
937 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
938 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
939 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
940 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
943 Support text/calendar MIME type
945 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
948 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
950 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
951 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
952 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
953 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
955 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
957 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
958 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
959 messages blue by default in the search view.
963 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
964 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
971 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
974 Python bindings changes
975 -----------------------
977 Python 3.2 compatibility
979 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
981 Added missing unicode conversions
983 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
984 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
985 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
990 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
992 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
993 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
994 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
995 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
996 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
998 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
999 ===========================
1004 Fix error handling in python bindings
1006 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1007 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1008 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1009 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1011 Quote MML tags in replies
1013 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1014 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1015 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1016 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1017 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1018 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1019 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1020 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1022 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1023 =========================
1025 Command-Line Interface
1026 ----------------------
1030 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1031 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1032 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1033 importing new messages into the database.
1035 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1037 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1038 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1039 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1044 Automatic tag query optimization
1046 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1047 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1048 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1050 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1052 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1053 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1054 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1059 Reduction of memory leaks
1061 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1062 and fixed in this release.
1069 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1070 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1071 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1074 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1076 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1077 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1078 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1081 Improvements in saved search management
1083 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1084 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1085 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1087 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1089 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1090 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1091 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1093 New face for crypto parts headers
1095 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1096 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1097 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1100 Use space as default thousands separator
1102 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1103 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1104 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1106 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1107 buttonized id: links
1109 New function notmuch-show-advance
1111 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1112 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1113 be bound to SPC with:
1115 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1117 Various performance improvements
1122 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1123 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1126 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1127 ===========================
1132 Fix crash in python bindings
1134 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1135 for some, but not all users.
1137 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1138 ===========================
1143 Fix `--help` argument
1145 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1146 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1147 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1149 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1150 =========================
1152 New build and testing features
1153 ------------------------------
1155 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1156 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1157 prerequisites is improved.
1159 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1161 New command-line features
1162 -------------------------
1164 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1166 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1167 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1170 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1172 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1173 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1174 favour of using stdout.
1176 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1178 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1179 limit the number of results shown.
1181 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1183 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1184 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1187 New emacs UI features
1188 ---------------------
1190 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1192 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1193 starting with "tag:".
1195 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1197 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1198 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1200 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1202 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1204 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1206 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1207 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1212 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1214 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1216 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1217 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1218 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1219 requires a database rebuild:
1221 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1222 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1224 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1226 New collection of add-on tools
1227 ------------------------------
1229 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1230 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1231 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1234 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1236 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1237 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1238 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1240 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1241 ========================
1243 New, general features
1244 ---------------------
1246 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1248 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1249 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1250 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1251 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1252 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1259 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1260 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1262 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1266 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1267 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1268 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1271 Python bindings changes
1272 -----------------------
1274 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1276 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1277 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1278 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1279 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1280 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1281 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1283 Ruby bindings changes
1284 ---------------------
1286 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1287 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1288 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1289 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1294 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1296 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1297 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1299 Reply formatting cleanup
1300 ------------------------
1302 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1303 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1305 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1306 ========================
1308 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1310 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1311 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1312 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1313 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1316 Improved Build system portability
1318 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1319 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1320 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1322 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1324 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1326 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1328 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1329 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1330 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1332 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1333 ========================
1335 Vim interface improvements
1336 --------------------------
1338 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1340 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1341 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1342 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1343 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1344 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1346 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1348 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1349 * fix compose temp file name
1351 Python Bindings changes
1352 -----------------------
1354 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1356 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1357 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1359 Build-System improvements
1360 -------------------------
1362 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1364 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1367 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1368 ==========================
1373 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1375 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1376 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1378 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1379 =======================
1381 New, general features
1382 ---------------------
1384 Folder-based searching
1386 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1387 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1388 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1392 For example, one might use things such as:
1398 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1399 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1401 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1402 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1403 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1404 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1406 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1407 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1408 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1411 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1412 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1414 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1416 Support for PGP/MIME
1418 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1419 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1420 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1422 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1424 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1425 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1427 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1428 notmuch will receive these tags.
1430 New command-line features
1431 -------------------------
1433 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1435 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1436 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1438 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1440 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1441 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1442 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1444 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1446 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1447 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1448 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1449 which parts a signature part applies).
1451 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1453 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1454 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1455 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1456 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1457 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1460 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1462 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1463 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1464 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1465 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1466 by translating it internally to the new call.
1468 Performance improvements
1469 ------------------------
1471 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1473 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1474 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1475 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1477 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1478 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1480 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1482 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1483 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1484 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1486 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1487 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1488 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1489 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1491 Faster initial indexing
1493 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1494 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1495 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1497 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1499 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1500 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1501 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1502 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1504 New emacs-interface features
1505 ----------------------------
1507 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1509 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1510 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1511 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1512 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1513 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1514 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1516 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1518 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1519 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1520 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1521 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1523 User-selectable From address
1525 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1526 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1527 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1528 will prompt for the from address to use.
1530 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1531 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1532 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1534 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1535 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1536 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1539 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1541 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1542 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1544 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1546 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1548 ----- Original Message -----
1550 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1551 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1552 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1553 citations work much like conventional citations.
1555 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1557 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1558 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1559 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1560 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1561 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1563 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1564 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1566 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1568 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1569 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1570 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1572 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1574 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1575 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1576 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1577 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1578 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1580 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1582 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1585 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1587 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1589 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1591 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1594 Vim interface improvements
1595 --------------------------
1597 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1599 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1600 * Implementing archive in show view
1601 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1602 * Add delete commands
1605 Bindings improvements
1606 ---------------------
1608 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1610 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1611 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1613 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1615 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1619 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1620 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1621 `list(Messages)` works now
1622 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1624 These allow, for example:
1626 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1628 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1630 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1636 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1638 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1641 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1643 New build-system features
1644 -------------------------
1646 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1648 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1649 the configure script from some other directory:
1656 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1658 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1659 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1660 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1661 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1662 manual invocation of configure.
1664 New test-suite feature
1665 ----------------------
1667 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1669 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1670 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1671 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1672 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1673 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1676 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1678 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1679 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1680 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1681 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1682 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1683 are updated to take advantage of this.
1685 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1687 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1688 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1689 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1690 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1696 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1698 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1699 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1700 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1702 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1704 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1706 to:user@elsewhere.com
1708 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1710 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1712 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1714 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1715 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1716 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1719 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1720 from the Received headers in some cases
1722 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1723 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1725 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1727 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1729 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1731 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1732 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1733 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1735 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1736 -------------------------
1738 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1740 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1741 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1742 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1744 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1746 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1747 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1748 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1751 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1753 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1754 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1755 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1756 fixed to avoid this bug.
1758 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1760 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1761 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1763 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1764 ========================
1766 New, general features
1767 ---------------------
1769 Maildir-flag synchronization
1771 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1772 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1781 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1783 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1784 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1785 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1786 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1788 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1789 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1790 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1791 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1794 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1796 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1797 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1798 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1800 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1801 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1803 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1804 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1806 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1807 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1808 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1810 New library features
1811 --------------------
1813 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1815 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1816 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1817 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1818 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1820 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1821 message with the new function:
1823 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1825 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1826 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1827 over all available filenames for a given message.
1829 New command-line features
1830 -------------------------
1832 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1834 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1835 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1836 access to the mail store itself.
1838 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1839 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1840 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1841 name of a script containing:
1843 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1845 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1846 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1852 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1854 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1856 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1858 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1859 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1860 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1861 now produces nothing).
1863 Emacs interface improvements
1864 ----------------------------
1866 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1868 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1870 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1872 Display current thread subject in a header line
1874 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1876 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1878 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1879 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1880 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1881 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1882 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1883 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1884 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1886 Vim interface improvements
1887 --------------------------
1889 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1891 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1892 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1898 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1900 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1901 ========================
1903 New command-line features
1904 -------------------------
1906 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1908 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1909 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1910 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1912 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1913 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1914 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1915 scripts. For example:
1917 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1918 <operations-on> "$file"
1921 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1923 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1924 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1925 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1926 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1927 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1928 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1930 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1932 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1933 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1934 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1935 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1937 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1939 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1940 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1941 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1942 default rather than Bcc.
1944 New library features
1945 --------------------
1947 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1949 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1950 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1955 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1957 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1958 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1959 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1960 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1961 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1962 notmuch customize interface.
1964 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1966 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1967 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1968 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1969 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1971 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1973 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1974 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1975 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1976 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1978 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1980 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1981 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1982 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1983 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1984 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1985 notmuch customize interface.
1987 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1989 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1990 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1991 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1992 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1993 notmuch customize interface.
1995 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1997 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1998 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1999 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2000 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2003 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2005 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2006 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2007 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2010 New build-system features
2011 -------------------------
2013 Various portability fixes have been applied
2015 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2016 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2017 more portable than ever before.
2019 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2021 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2022 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2023 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2025 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2026 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2027 automatically run ldconfig.
2029 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2030 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2031 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2033 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2034 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2035 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2036 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2038 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2040 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2041 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2042 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2043 used in the resulting Makefile.
2045 New test-suite features
2046 -----------------------
2048 New modularization of test suite
2050 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2051 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2052 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2053 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2054 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2055 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2056 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2057 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2059 New testing of emacs interface
2061 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2062 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2063 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2064 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2065 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2066 database via the FCC setting.
2071 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2073 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2074 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2075 persistent error of the form:
2077 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2079 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2080 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2082 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2084 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2085 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2086 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2088 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2090 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2091 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2092 parsing the notmuch results).
2094 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2096 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2099 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2100 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2101 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2106 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2108 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2109 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2110 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2111 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2112 the emacs interface.
2114 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2116 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2117 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2118 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2120 Python-binding fixes
2121 --------------------
2123 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2125 Debian-specific fixes
2126 ---------------------
2128 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2130 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2131 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2132 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2135 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2136 ==========================
2141 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2143 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2144 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2145 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2146 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2148 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2150 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2151 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2152 want notmuch to crash.
2157 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2159 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2160 directory does not exist
2165 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2167 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2168 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2170 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2171 ========================
2173 New command-line features
2174 -------------------------
2176 User-configurable tags for new messages
2178 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2179 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2180 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2181 to specify this value.
2183 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2185 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2186 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2187 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2189 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2191 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2192 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2194 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2196 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2197 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2198 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2199 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2200 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2203 Indication of author names that match a search
2205 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2206 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2207 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2208 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2209 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2210 messages in the thread are listed first.
2212 New: Python bindings
2213 --------------------
2215 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2216 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2217 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2218 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2220 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2221 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2222 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2225 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2226 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2227 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2229 Emacs interface improvements
2230 ----------------------------
2232 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2234 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2235 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2236 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2237 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2238 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2239 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2240 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2241 but without any of the disadvantages).
2243 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2244 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2245 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2248 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2249 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2250 instead running something like:
2252 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2254 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2255 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2256 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2259 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2261 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2262 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2263 tweaked by the user.
2265 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2266 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2267 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2270 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2271 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2272 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2275 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2277 This support currently relies on an external program,
2278 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2279 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2280 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2281 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2282 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2285 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2286 notmuch) is available via:
2288 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2290 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2291 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2292 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2294 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2296 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2297 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2298 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2299 making this automatic in a future release.
2301 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2303 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2304 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2305 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2306 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2307 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2308 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2311 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2313 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2314 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2315 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2317 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2319 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2320 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2321 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2323 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2324 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2325 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2326 other representation.
2328 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2329 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2332 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2334 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2335 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2336 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2338 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2339 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2340 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2342 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2344 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2345 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2346 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2347 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2348 to display the search result.
2350 More flexible handling of header visibility
2352 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2353 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2354 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2355 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2356 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2357 with the 'h' keybinding.
2359 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2360 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2361 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2363 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2365 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2367 Customizable formatting of search results
2369 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2370 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2371 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2373 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2375 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2377 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2382 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2384 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2385 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2386 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2387 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2393 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2395 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2396 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2398 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2400 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2401 accept are now all accepted.
2406 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2408 Better display of output from failed tests
2410 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2411 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2413 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2414 ========================
2416 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2417 detailed release notes this time!
2419 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2420 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2422 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2423 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2424 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2425 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2432 Better guessing of From: header
2434 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2435 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2436 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2437 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2438 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2441 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2443 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2444 guaranteed to match all messages.
2446 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2448 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2449 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2450 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2451 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2452 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2455 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2458 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2459 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2460 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2461 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2466 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2468 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2469 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2470 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2471 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2473 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2475 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2477 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2478 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2479 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2481 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2483 Previously, the user might see:
2485 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2489 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2491 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2492 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2493 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2494 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2496 Emacs client features
2497 ---------------------
2499 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2501 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2502 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2503 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2504 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2505 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2507 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2510 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2511 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2512 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2513 search with the '*' binding.
2515 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2517 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2518 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2521 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2523 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2524 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2525 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2527 Build-system features
2528 ---------------------
2530 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2532 Add support to configure for many standard options
2534 We include actual support for:
2536 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2538 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2540 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2541 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2543 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2544 separate "make install-emacs"
2546 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2548 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2549 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2550 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2552 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2555 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2556 ========================
2558 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2560 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2561 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2563 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2564 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2565 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2566 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2567 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2568 tags from messages in a thread.
2575 indent-tabs-mode: nil