1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
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.
51 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
52 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
53 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
54 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
55 these differ from each other.
56 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
58 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
60 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
61 newlines before calling notmuch count.
66 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
67 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
69 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
70 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
71 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
72 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
74 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
75 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
76 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
77 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
78 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
80 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
82 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
83 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
85 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
86 =========================
88 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
89 ---------------------------------------
91 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
92 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
93 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
94 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
95 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
96 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
97 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
101 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
102 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
104 Command-Line Interface
105 ----------------------
107 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
109 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
110 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
111 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
112 print for each message.
114 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
115 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
116 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
117 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
119 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
121 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
122 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
123 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
125 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
127 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
128 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
129 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
130 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
132 `notmuch compact` command
134 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
135 functionality through a more convenient interface than
136 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
137 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
138 move the compacted database into place.
143 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
145 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
146 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
147 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
148 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
149 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
150 and multiple threads.
154 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
156 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
157 search, show and tree mode itself)
159 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
162 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
163 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
165 Customising `notmuch-tree`
167 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
168 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
169 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
170 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
171 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
172 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
173 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
175 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
177 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
178 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
179 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
180 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
181 thread when the search was performed.
183 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
185 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
186 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
187 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
189 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
191 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
192 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
195 Built-in help improvements
197 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
198 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
199 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
201 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
203 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
204 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
205 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
207 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
209 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
210 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
212 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
214 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
215 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
216 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
217 to move some of them to the common keymap.
219 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
221 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
222 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
223 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
224 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
226 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
228 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
229 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
230 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
232 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
234 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
235 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
236 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
238 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
240 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
241 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
242 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
243 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
244 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
246 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
248 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
249 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
250 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
251 the body part of the message.
256 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
257 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
258 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
260 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
261 =========================
263 Command-Line Interface
264 ----------------------
266 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
268 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
269 folder and notmuch index.
271 `notmuch count --batch` option
273 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
274 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
276 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
278 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
279 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
280 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
283 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
285 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
286 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
287 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
288 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
289 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
292 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
294 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
295 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
297 Top level option to specify configuration file
299 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
300 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
302 Bash command-line completion
304 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
305 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
306 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
307 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
308 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
309 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
310 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
311 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
312 bash-completion package.
314 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
319 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
321 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
322 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
323 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
324 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
325 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
326 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
327 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
328 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
330 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
332 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
333 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
334 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
336 Key bindings for next/previous thread
338 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
339 previous thread in the search results.
341 Better handling of errors in search buffers
343 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
344 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
346 Faster search and show
348 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
349 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
350 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
351 threads should show faster.
355 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
356 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
357 in question was now removed from this release.
362 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
363 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
368 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
370 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
371 ===========================
376 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
378 Internal test framework changes
379 -------------------------------
381 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
384 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
385 ===========================
387 Internal test framework changes
388 -------------------------------
390 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
391 build failures in non-interactive environments.
393 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
394 =========================
399 Date range search support
401 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
402 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
403 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
404 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
405 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
408 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
410 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
411 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
412 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
413 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
414 but may be removed in a future release.
416 Command-Line Interface
417 ----------------------
419 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
421 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
422 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
424 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
426 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
427 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
428 officially deprecated.
430 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
432 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
433 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
434 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
436 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
438 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
439 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
442 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
443 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
446 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
448 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
449 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
450 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
452 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
454 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
455 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
456 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
458 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
460 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
461 output separated by null characters rather than newline
462 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
463 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
468 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
470 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
471 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
472 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
473 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
475 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
477 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
478 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
479 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
480 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
481 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
482 the behavior of this, see
483 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
484 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
486 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
487 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
488 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
490 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
492 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
493 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
496 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
498 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
499 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
500 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
501 simply displayed in place of the message.
503 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
505 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
506 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
508 Improved text/calendar content handling
510 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
511 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
512 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
513 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
515 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
517 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
518 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
519 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
520 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
522 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
524 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
525 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
526 for HTML email containing images.
528 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
530 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
532 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
534 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
537 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
539 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
540 the point where it was.
542 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
544 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
545 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
546 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
547 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
548 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
550 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
552 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
553 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
554 thread instead of the message id.
556 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
557 -----------------------------
559 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
560 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
561 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
562 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
563 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
564 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
565 further details and installation.
570 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
572 Internal test framework changes
573 -------------------------------
575 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
577 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
578 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
579 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
580 can result in buggy behavior.
582 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
583 =========================
588 Maildir tag synchronization
590 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
591 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
592 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
593 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
594 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
595 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
598 Command-Line Interface
599 ----------------------
601 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
602 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
603 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
604 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
605 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
611 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
613 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
615 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
616 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
617 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
619 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
621 It is now possible to embed newlines in
622 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
625 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
627 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
628 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
629 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
630 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
631 inside the result or message.
633 Search now uses the JSON format internally
635 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
636 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
638 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
639 user-specified formatting
641 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
642 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
643 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
644 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
645 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
647 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
648 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
650 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
651 ===========================
656 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
657 compilation error for this contrib package.
659 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
660 ===========================
665 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
667 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
668 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
669 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
670 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
672 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
673 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
676 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
677 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
678 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
679 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
682 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
684 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
687 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
688 =========================
690 Command-Line Interface
691 ----------------------
695 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
696 for a reply message and full information about the original message
697 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
698 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
700 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
701 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
702 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
703 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
707 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
708 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
710 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
711 tag in your query, for example:
713 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
715 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
716 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
718 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
719 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
721 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
723 Raw show format changes
725 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
726 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
727 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
728 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
729 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
730 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
731 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
732 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
734 Listing configuration items
736 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
742 Changes to tagging interface
744 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
745 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
746 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
747 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
748 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
749 for more information.
751 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
752 may need to update in custom configurations.
754 Reply improvement using the JSON format
756 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
757 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
758 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
759 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
762 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
763 -----------------------------
765 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
766 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
767 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
768 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
769 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
770 contrib/ from now on.
775 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
776 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
778 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
779 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
781 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
782 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
783 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
785 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
786 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
788 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
789 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
790 returning the new database object or directory object.
797 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
798 compatible with go 1.
800 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
801 =========================
803 Command-Line Interface
804 ----------------------
808 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
809 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
810 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
811 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
813 Mail store folder/file ignore
815 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
816 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
817 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
819 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
820 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
822 Unified help and manual pages
824 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
825 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
828 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
830 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
831 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
839 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
840 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
841 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
842 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
844 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
846 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
847 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
849 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
852 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
853 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
854 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
856 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
858 should be changed to:
860 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
862 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
864 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
865 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
867 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
869 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
870 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
871 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
872 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
873 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
874 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
878 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
879 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
880 of Mailing List Archives.
882 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
884 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
885 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
888 Show view archiving key binding changes
890 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
891 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
892 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
893 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
894 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
897 Support text/calendar MIME type
899 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
902 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
904 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
905 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
906 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
907 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
909 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
911 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
912 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
913 messages blue by default in the search view.
917 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
918 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
925 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
928 Python bindings changes
929 -----------------------
931 Python 3.2 compatibility
933 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
935 Added missing unicode conversions
937 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
938 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
939 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
944 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
946 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
947 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
948 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
949 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
950 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
952 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
953 ===========================
958 Fix error handling in python bindings
960 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
961 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
962 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
963 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
965 Quote MML tags in replies
967 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
968 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
969 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
970 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
971 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
972 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
973 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
974 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
976 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
977 =========================
979 Command-Line Interface
980 ----------------------
984 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
985 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
986 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
987 importing new messages into the database.
989 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
991 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
992 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
993 sometimes. This is now fixed.
998 Automatic tag query optimization
1000 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1001 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1002 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1004 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1006 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1007 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1008 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1013 Reduction of memory leaks
1015 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1016 and fixed in this release.
1023 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1024 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1025 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1028 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1030 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1031 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1032 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1035 Improvements in saved search management
1037 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1038 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1039 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1041 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1043 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1044 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1045 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1047 New face for crypto parts headers
1049 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1050 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1051 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1054 Use space as default thousands separator
1056 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1057 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1058 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1060 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1061 buttonized id: links
1063 New function notmuch-show-advance
1065 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1066 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1067 be bound to SPC with:
1069 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1071 Various performance improvements
1076 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1077 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1080 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1081 ===========================
1086 Fix crash in python bindings
1088 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1089 for some, but not all users.
1091 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1092 ===========================
1097 Fix `--help` argument
1099 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1100 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1101 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1103 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1104 =========================
1106 New build and testing features
1107 ------------------------------
1109 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1110 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1111 prerequisites is improved.
1113 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1115 New command-line features
1116 -------------------------
1118 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1120 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1121 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1124 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1126 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1127 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1128 favour of using stdout.
1130 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1132 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1133 limit the number of results shown.
1135 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1137 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1138 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1141 New emacs UI features
1142 ---------------------
1144 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1146 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1147 starting with "tag:".
1149 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1151 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1152 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1154 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1156 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1158 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1160 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1161 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1166 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1168 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1170 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1171 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1172 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1173 requires a database rebuild:
1175 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1176 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1178 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1180 New collection of add-on tools
1181 ------------------------------
1183 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1184 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1185 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1188 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1190 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1191 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1192 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1194 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1195 ========================
1197 New, general features
1198 ---------------------
1200 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1202 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1203 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1204 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1205 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1206 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1213 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1214 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1216 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1220 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1221 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1222 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1225 Python bindings changes
1226 -----------------------
1228 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1230 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1231 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1232 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1233 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1234 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1235 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1237 Ruby bindings changes
1238 ---------------------
1240 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1241 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1242 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1243 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1248 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1250 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1251 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1253 Reply formatting cleanup
1254 ------------------------
1256 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1257 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1259 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1260 ========================
1262 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1264 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1265 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1266 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1267 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1270 Improved Build system portability
1272 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1273 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1274 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1276 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1278 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1280 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1282 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1283 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1284 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1286 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1287 ========================
1289 Vim interface improvements
1290 --------------------------
1292 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1294 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1295 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1296 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1297 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1298 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1300 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1302 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1303 * fix compose temp file name
1305 Python Bindings changes
1306 -----------------------
1308 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1310 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1311 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1313 Build-System improvements
1314 -------------------------
1316 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1318 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1321 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1322 ==========================
1327 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1329 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1330 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1332 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1333 =======================
1335 New, general features
1336 ---------------------
1338 Folder-based searching
1340 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1341 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1342 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1346 For example, one might use things such as:
1352 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1353 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1355 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1356 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1357 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1358 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1360 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1361 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1362 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1365 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1366 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1368 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1370 Support for PGP/MIME
1372 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1373 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1374 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1376 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1378 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1379 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1381 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1382 notmuch will receive these tags.
1384 New command-line features
1385 -------------------------
1387 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1389 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1390 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1392 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1394 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1395 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1396 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1398 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1400 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1401 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1402 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1403 which parts a signature part applies).
1405 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1407 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1408 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1409 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1410 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1411 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1414 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1416 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1417 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1418 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1419 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1420 by translating it internally to the new call.
1422 Performance improvements
1423 ------------------------
1425 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1427 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1428 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1429 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1431 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1432 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1434 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1436 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1437 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1438 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1440 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1441 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1442 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1443 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1445 Faster initial indexing
1447 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1448 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1449 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1451 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1453 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1454 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1455 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1456 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1458 New emacs-interface features
1459 ----------------------------
1461 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1463 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1464 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1465 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1466 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1467 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1468 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1470 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1472 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1473 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1474 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1475 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1477 User-selectable From address
1479 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1480 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1481 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1482 will prompt for the from address to use.
1484 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1485 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1486 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1488 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1489 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1490 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1493 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1495 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1496 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1498 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1500 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1502 ----- Original Message -----
1504 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1505 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1506 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1507 citations work much like conventional citations.
1509 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1511 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1512 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1513 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1514 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1515 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1517 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1518 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1520 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1522 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1523 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1524 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1526 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1528 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1529 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1530 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1531 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1532 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1534 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1536 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1539 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1541 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1543 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1545 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1548 Vim interface improvements
1549 --------------------------
1551 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1553 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1554 * Implementing archive in show view
1555 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1556 * Add delete commands
1559 Bindings improvements
1560 ---------------------
1562 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1564 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1565 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1567 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1569 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1573 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1574 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1575 `list(Messages)` works now
1576 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1578 These allow, for example:
1580 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1582 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1584 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1590 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1592 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1595 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1597 New build-system features
1598 -------------------------
1600 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1602 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1603 the configure script from some other directory:
1610 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1612 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1613 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1614 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1615 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1616 manual invocation of configure.
1618 New test-suite feature
1619 ----------------------
1621 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1623 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1624 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1625 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1626 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1627 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1630 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1632 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1633 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1634 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1635 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1636 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1637 are updated to take advantage of this.
1639 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1641 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1642 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1643 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1644 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1650 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1652 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1653 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1654 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1656 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1658 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1660 to:user@elsewhere.com
1662 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1664 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1666 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1668 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1669 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1670 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1673 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1674 from the Received headers in some cases
1676 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1677 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1679 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1681 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1683 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1685 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1686 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1687 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1689 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1690 -------------------------
1692 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1694 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1695 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1696 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1698 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1700 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1701 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1702 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1705 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1707 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1708 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1709 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1710 fixed to avoid this bug.
1712 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1714 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1715 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1717 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1718 ========================
1720 New, general features
1721 ---------------------
1723 Maildir-flag synchronization
1725 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1726 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1735 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1737 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1738 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1739 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1740 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1742 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1743 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1744 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1745 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1748 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1750 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1751 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1752 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1754 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1755 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1757 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1758 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1760 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1761 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1762 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1764 New library features
1765 --------------------
1767 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1769 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1770 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1771 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1772 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1774 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1775 message with the new function:
1777 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1779 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1780 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1781 over all available filenames for a given message.
1783 New command-line features
1784 -------------------------
1786 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1788 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1789 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1790 access to the mail store itself.
1792 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1793 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1794 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1795 name of a script containing:
1797 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1799 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1800 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1806 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1808 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1810 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1812 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1813 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1814 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1815 now produces nothing).
1817 Emacs interface improvements
1818 ----------------------------
1820 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1822 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1824 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1826 Display current thread subject in a header line
1828 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1830 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1832 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1833 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1834 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1835 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1836 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1837 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1838 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1840 Vim interface improvements
1841 --------------------------
1843 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1845 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1846 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1852 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1854 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1855 ========================
1857 New command-line features
1858 -------------------------
1860 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1862 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1863 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1864 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1866 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1867 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1868 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1869 scripts. For example:
1871 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1872 <operations-on> "$file"
1875 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1877 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1878 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1879 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1880 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1881 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1882 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1884 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1886 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1887 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1888 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1889 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1891 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1893 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1894 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1895 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1896 default rather than Bcc.
1898 New library features
1899 --------------------
1901 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1903 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1904 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1909 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1911 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1912 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1913 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1914 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1915 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1916 notmuch customize interface.
1918 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1920 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1921 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1922 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1923 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1925 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1927 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1928 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1929 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1930 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1932 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1934 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1935 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1936 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1937 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1938 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1939 notmuch customize interface.
1941 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1943 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1944 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1945 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1946 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1947 notmuch customize interface.
1949 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1951 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1952 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1953 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1954 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1957 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1959 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1960 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1961 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1964 New build-system features
1965 -------------------------
1967 Various portability fixes have been applied
1969 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1970 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1971 more portable than ever before.
1973 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1975 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1976 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1977 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1979 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1980 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1981 automatically run ldconfig.
1983 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1984 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1985 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1987 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1988 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1989 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1990 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1992 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1994 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1995 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1996 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1997 used in the resulting Makefile.
1999 New test-suite features
2000 -----------------------
2002 New modularization of test suite
2004 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2005 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2006 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2007 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2008 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2009 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2010 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2011 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2013 New testing of emacs interface
2015 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2016 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2017 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2018 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2019 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2020 database via the FCC setting.
2025 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2027 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2028 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2029 persistent error of the form:
2031 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2033 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2034 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2036 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2038 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2039 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2040 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2042 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2044 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2045 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2046 parsing the notmuch results).
2048 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2050 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2053 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2054 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2055 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2060 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2062 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2063 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2064 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2065 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2066 the emacs interface.
2068 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2070 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2071 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2072 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2074 Python-binding fixes
2075 --------------------
2077 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2079 Debian-specific fixes
2080 ---------------------
2082 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2084 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2085 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2086 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2089 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2090 ==========================
2095 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2097 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2098 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2099 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2100 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2102 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2104 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2105 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2106 want notmuch to crash.
2111 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2113 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2114 directory does not exist
2119 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2121 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2122 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2124 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2125 ========================
2127 New command-line features
2128 -------------------------
2130 User-configurable tags for new messages
2132 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2133 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2134 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2135 to specify this value.
2137 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2139 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2140 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2141 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2143 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2145 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2146 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2148 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2150 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2151 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2152 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2153 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2154 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2157 Indication of author names that match a search
2159 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2160 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2161 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2162 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2163 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2164 messages in the thread are listed first.
2166 New: Python bindings
2167 --------------------
2169 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2170 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2171 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2172 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2174 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2175 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2176 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2179 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2180 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2181 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2183 Emacs interface improvements
2184 ----------------------------
2186 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2188 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2189 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2190 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2191 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2192 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2193 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2194 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2195 but without any of the disadvantages).
2197 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2198 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2199 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2202 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2203 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2204 instead running something like:
2206 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2208 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2209 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2210 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2213 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2215 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2216 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2217 tweaked by the user.
2219 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2220 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2221 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2224 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2225 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2226 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2229 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2231 This support currently relies on an external program,
2232 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2233 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2234 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2235 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2236 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2239 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2240 notmuch) is available via:
2242 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2244 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2245 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2246 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2248 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2250 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2251 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2252 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2253 making this automatic in a future release.
2255 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2257 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2258 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2259 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2260 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2261 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2262 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2265 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2267 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2268 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2269 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2271 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2273 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2274 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2275 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2277 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2278 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2279 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2280 other representation.
2282 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2283 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2286 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2288 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2289 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2290 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2292 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2293 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2294 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2296 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2298 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2299 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2300 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2301 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2302 to display the search result.
2304 More flexible handling of header visibility
2306 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2307 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2308 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2309 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2310 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2311 with the 'h' keybinding.
2313 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2314 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2315 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2317 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2319 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2321 Customizable formatting of search results
2323 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2324 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2325 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2327 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2329 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2331 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2336 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2338 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2339 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2340 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2341 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2347 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2349 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2350 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2352 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2354 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2355 accept are now all accepted.
2360 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2362 Better display of output from failed tests
2364 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2365 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2367 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2368 ========================
2370 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2371 detailed release notes this time!
2373 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2374 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2376 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2377 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2378 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2379 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2386 Better guessing of From: header
2388 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2389 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2390 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2391 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2392 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2395 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2397 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2398 guaranteed to match all messages.
2400 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2402 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2403 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2404 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2405 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2406 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2409 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2412 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2413 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2414 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2415 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2420 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2422 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2423 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2424 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2425 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2427 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2429 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2431 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2432 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2433 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2435 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2437 Previously, the user might see:
2439 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2443 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2445 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2446 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2447 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2448 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2450 Emacs client features
2451 ---------------------
2453 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2455 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2456 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2457 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2458 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2459 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2461 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2464 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2465 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2466 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2467 search with the '*' binding.
2469 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2471 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2472 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2475 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2477 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2478 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2479 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2481 Build-system features
2482 ---------------------
2484 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2486 Add support to configure for many standard options
2488 We include actual support for:
2490 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2492 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2494 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2495 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2497 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2498 separate "make install-emacs"
2500 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2502 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2503 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2504 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2506 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2509 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2510 ========================
2512 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2514 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2515 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2517 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2518 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2519 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2520 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2521 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2522 tags from messages in a thread.
2529 indent-tabs-mode: nil