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.
18 Changed format for saved searches
20 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
21 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
22 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
23 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
26 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
27 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
28 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
29 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
31 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
32 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
33 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
35 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
36 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
37 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
38 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
39 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
41 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
43 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
44 newlines before calling notmuch count.
49 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
50 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
52 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
53 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
54 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
55 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
57 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
58 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
59 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
60 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
61 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
63 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
65 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
66 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
68 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
69 =========================
71 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
72 ---------------------------------------
74 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
75 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
76 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
77 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
78 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
79 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
80 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
84 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
85 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
87 Command-Line Interface
88 ----------------------
90 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
92 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
93 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
94 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
95 print for each message.
97 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
98 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
99 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
100 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
102 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
104 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
105 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
106 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
108 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
110 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
111 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
112 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
113 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
115 `notmuch compact` command
117 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
118 functionality through a more convenient interface than
119 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
120 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
121 move the compacted database into place.
126 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
128 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
129 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
130 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
131 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
132 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
133 and multiple threads.
137 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
139 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
140 search, show and tree mode itself)
142 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
145 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
146 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
148 Customising `notmuch-tree`
150 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
151 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
152 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
153 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
154 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
155 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
156 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
158 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
160 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
161 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
162 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
163 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
164 thread when the search was performed.
166 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
168 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
169 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
170 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
172 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
174 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
175 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
178 Built-in help improvements
180 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
181 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
182 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
184 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
186 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
187 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
188 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
190 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
192 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
193 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
195 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
197 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
198 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
199 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
200 to move some of them to the common keymap.
202 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
204 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
205 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
206 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
207 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
209 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
211 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
212 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
213 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
215 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
217 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
218 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
219 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
221 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
223 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
224 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
225 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
226 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
227 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
229 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
231 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
232 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
233 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
234 the body part of the message.
239 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
240 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
241 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
243 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
244 =========================
246 Command-Line Interface
247 ----------------------
249 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
251 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
252 folder and notmuch index.
254 `notmuch count --batch` option
256 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
257 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
259 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
261 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
262 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
263 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
266 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
268 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
269 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
270 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
271 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
272 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
275 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
277 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
278 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
280 Top level option to specify configuration file
282 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
283 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
285 Bash command-line completion
287 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
288 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
289 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
290 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
291 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
292 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
293 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
294 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
295 bash-completion package.
297 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
302 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
304 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
305 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
306 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
307 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
308 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
309 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
310 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
311 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
313 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
315 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
316 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
317 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
319 Key bindings for next/previous thread
321 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
322 previous thread in the search results.
324 Better handling of errors in search buffers
326 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
327 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
329 Faster search and show
331 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
332 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
333 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
334 threads should show faster.
338 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
339 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
340 in question was now removed from this release.
345 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
346 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
351 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
353 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
354 ===========================
359 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
361 Internal test framework changes
362 -------------------------------
364 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
367 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
368 ===========================
370 Internal test framework changes
371 -------------------------------
373 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
374 build failures in non-interactive environments.
376 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
377 =========================
382 Date range search support
384 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
385 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
386 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
387 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
388 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
391 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
393 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
394 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
395 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
396 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
397 but may be removed in a future release.
399 Command-Line Interface
400 ----------------------
402 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
404 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
405 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
407 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
409 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
410 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
411 officially deprecated.
413 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
415 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
416 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
417 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
419 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
421 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
422 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
425 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
426 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
429 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
431 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
432 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
433 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
435 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
437 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
438 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
439 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
441 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
443 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
444 output separated by null characters rather than newline
445 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
446 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
451 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
453 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
454 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
455 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
456 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
458 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
460 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
461 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
462 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
463 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
464 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
465 the behavior of this, see
466 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
467 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
469 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
470 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
471 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
473 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
475 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
476 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
479 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
481 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
482 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
483 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
484 simply displayed in place of the message.
486 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
488 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
489 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
491 Improved text/calendar content handling
493 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
494 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
495 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
496 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
498 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
500 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
501 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
502 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
503 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
505 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
507 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
508 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
509 for HTML email containing images.
511 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
513 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
515 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
517 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
520 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
522 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
523 the point where it was.
525 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
527 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
528 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
529 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
530 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
531 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
533 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
535 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
536 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
537 thread instead of the message id.
539 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
540 -----------------------------
542 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
543 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
544 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
545 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
546 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
547 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
548 further details and installation.
553 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
555 Internal test framework changes
556 -------------------------------
558 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
560 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
561 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
562 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
563 can result in buggy behavior.
565 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
566 =========================
571 Maildir tag synchronization
573 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
574 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
575 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
576 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
577 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
578 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
581 Command-Line Interface
582 ----------------------
584 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
585 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
586 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
587 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
588 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
594 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
596 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
598 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
599 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
600 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
602 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
604 It is now possible to embed newlines in
605 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
608 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
610 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
611 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
612 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
613 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
614 inside the result or message.
616 Search now uses the JSON format internally
618 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
619 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
621 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
622 user-specified formatting
624 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
625 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
626 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
627 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
628 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
630 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
631 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
633 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
634 ===========================
639 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
640 compilation error for this contrib package.
642 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
643 ===========================
648 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
650 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
651 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
652 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
653 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
655 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
656 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
659 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
660 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
661 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
662 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
665 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
667 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
670 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
671 =========================
673 Command-Line Interface
674 ----------------------
678 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
679 for a reply message and full information about the original message
680 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
681 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
683 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
684 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
685 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
686 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
690 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
691 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
693 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
694 tag in your query, for example:
696 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
698 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
699 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
701 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
702 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
704 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
706 Raw show format changes
708 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
709 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
710 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
711 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
712 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
713 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
714 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
715 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
717 Listing configuration items
719 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
725 Changes to tagging interface
727 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
728 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
729 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
730 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
731 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
732 for more information.
734 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
735 may need to update in custom configurations.
737 Reply improvement using the JSON format
739 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
740 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
741 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
742 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
745 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
746 -----------------------------
748 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
749 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
750 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
751 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
752 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
753 contrib/ from now on.
758 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
759 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
761 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
762 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
764 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
765 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
766 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
768 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
769 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
771 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
772 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
773 returning the new database object or directory object.
780 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
781 compatible with go 1.
783 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
784 =========================
786 Command-Line Interface
787 ----------------------
791 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
792 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
793 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
794 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
796 Mail store folder/file ignore
798 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
799 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
800 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
802 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
803 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
805 Unified help and manual pages
807 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
808 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
811 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
813 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
814 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
822 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
823 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
824 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
825 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
827 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
829 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
830 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
832 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
835 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
836 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
837 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
839 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
841 should be changed to:
843 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
845 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
847 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
848 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
850 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
852 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
853 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
854 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
855 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
856 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
857 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
861 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
862 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
863 of Mailing List Archives.
865 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
867 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
868 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
871 Show view archiving key binding changes
873 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
874 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
875 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
876 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
877 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
880 Support text/calendar MIME type
882 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
885 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
887 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
888 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
889 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
890 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
892 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
894 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
895 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
896 messages blue by default in the search view.
900 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
901 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
908 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
911 Python bindings changes
912 -----------------------
914 Python 3.2 compatibility
916 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
918 Added missing unicode conversions
920 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
921 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
922 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
927 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
929 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
930 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
931 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
932 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
933 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
935 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
936 ===========================
941 Fix error handling in python bindings
943 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
944 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
945 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
946 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
948 Quote MML tags in replies
950 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
951 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
952 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
953 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
954 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
955 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
956 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
957 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
959 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
960 =========================
962 Command-Line Interface
963 ----------------------
967 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
968 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
969 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
970 importing new messages into the database.
972 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
974 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
975 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
976 sometimes. This is now fixed.
981 Automatic tag query optimization
983 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
984 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
985 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
987 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
989 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
990 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
991 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
996 Reduction of memory leaks
998 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
999 and fixed in this release.
1006 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1007 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1008 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1011 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1013 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1014 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1015 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1018 Improvements in saved search management
1020 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1021 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1022 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1024 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1026 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1027 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1028 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1030 New face for crypto parts headers
1032 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1033 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1034 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1037 Use space as default thousands separator
1039 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1040 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1041 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1043 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1044 buttonized id: links
1046 New function notmuch-show-advance
1048 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1049 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1050 be bound to SPC with:
1052 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1054 Various performance improvements
1059 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1060 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1063 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1064 ===========================
1069 Fix crash in python bindings
1071 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1072 for some, but not all users.
1074 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1075 ===========================
1080 Fix `--help` argument
1082 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1083 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1084 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1086 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1087 =========================
1089 New build and testing features
1090 ------------------------------
1092 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1093 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1094 prerequisites is improved.
1096 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1098 New command-line features
1099 -------------------------
1101 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1103 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1104 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1107 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1109 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1110 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1111 favour of using stdout.
1113 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1115 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1116 limit the number of results shown.
1118 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1120 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1121 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1124 New emacs UI features
1125 ---------------------
1127 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1129 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1130 starting with "tag:".
1132 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1134 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1135 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1137 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1139 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1141 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1143 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1144 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1149 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1151 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1153 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1154 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1155 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1156 requires a database rebuild:
1158 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1159 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1161 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1163 New collection of add-on tools
1164 ------------------------------
1166 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1167 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1168 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1171 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1173 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1174 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1175 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1177 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1178 ========================
1180 New, general features
1181 ---------------------
1183 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1185 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1186 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1187 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1188 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1189 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1196 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1197 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1199 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1203 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1204 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1205 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1208 Python bindings changes
1209 -----------------------
1211 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1213 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1214 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1215 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1216 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1217 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1218 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1220 Ruby bindings changes
1221 ---------------------
1223 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1224 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1225 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1226 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1231 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1233 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1234 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1236 Reply formatting cleanup
1237 ------------------------
1239 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1240 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1242 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1243 ========================
1245 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1247 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1248 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1249 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1250 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1253 Improved Build system portability
1255 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1256 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1257 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1259 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1261 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1263 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1265 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1266 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1267 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1269 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1270 ========================
1272 Vim interface improvements
1273 --------------------------
1275 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1277 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1278 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1279 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1280 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1281 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1283 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1285 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1286 * fix compose temp file name
1288 Python Bindings changes
1289 -----------------------
1291 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1293 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1294 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1296 Build-System improvements
1297 -------------------------
1299 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1301 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1304 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1305 ==========================
1310 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1312 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1313 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1315 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1316 =======================
1318 New, general features
1319 ---------------------
1321 Folder-based searching
1323 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1324 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1325 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1329 For example, one might use things such as:
1335 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1336 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1338 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1339 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1340 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1341 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1343 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1344 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1345 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1348 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1349 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1351 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1353 Support for PGP/MIME
1355 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1356 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1357 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1359 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1361 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1362 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1364 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1365 notmuch will receive these tags.
1367 New command-line features
1368 -------------------------
1370 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1372 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1373 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1375 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1377 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1378 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1379 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1381 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1383 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1384 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1385 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1386 which parts a signature part applies).
1388 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1390 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1391 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1392 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1393 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1394 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1397 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1399 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1400 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1401 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1402 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1403 by translating it internally to the new call.
1405 Performance improvements
1406 ------------------------
1408 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1410 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1411 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1412 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1414 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1415 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1417 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1419 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1420 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1421 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1423 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1424 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1425 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1426 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1428 Faster initial indexing
1430 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1431 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1432 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1434 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1436 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1437 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1438 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1439 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1441 New emacs-interface features
1442 ----------------------------
1444 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1446 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1447 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1448 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1449 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1450 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1451 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1453 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1455 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1456 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1457 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1458 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1460 User-selectable From address
1462 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1463 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1464 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1465 will prompt for the from address to use.
1467 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1468 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1469 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1471 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1472 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1473 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1476 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1478 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1479 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1481 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1483 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1485 ----- Original Message -----
1487 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1488 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1489 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1490 citations work much like conventional citations.
1492 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1494 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1495 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1496 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1497 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1498 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1500 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1501 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1503 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1505 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1506 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1507 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1509 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1511 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1512 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1513 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1514 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1515 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1517 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1519 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1522 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1524 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1526 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1528 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1531 Vim interface improvements
1532 --------------------------
1534 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1536 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1537 * Implementing archive in show view
1538 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1539 * Add delete commands
1542 Bindings improvements
1543 ---------------------
1545 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1547 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1548 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1550 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1552 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1556 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1557 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1558 `list(Messages)` works now
1559 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1561 These allow, for example:
1563 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1565 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1567 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1573 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1575 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1578 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1580 New build-system features
1581 -------------------------
1583 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1585 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1586 the configure script from some other directory:
1593 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1595 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1596 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1597 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1598 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1599 manual invocation of configure.
1601 New test-suite feature
1602 ----------------------
1604 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1606 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1607 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1608 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1609 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1610 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1613 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1615 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1616 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1617 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1618 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1619 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1620 are updated to take advantage of this.
1622 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1624 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1625 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1626 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1627 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1633 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1635 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1636 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1637 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1639 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1641 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1643 to:user@elsewhere.com
1645 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1647 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1649 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1651 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1652 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1653 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1656 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1657 from the Received headers in some cases
1659 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1660 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1662 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1664 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1666 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1668 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1669 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1670 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1672 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1673 -------------------------
1675 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1677 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1678 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1679 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1681 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1683 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1684 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1685 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1688 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1690 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1691 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1692 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1693 fixed to avoid this bug.
1695 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1697 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1698 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1700 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1701 ========================
1703 New, general features
1704 ---------------------
1706 Maildir-flag synchronization
1708 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1709 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1718 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1720 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1721 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1722 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1723 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1725 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1726 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1727 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1728 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1731 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1733 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1734 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1735 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1737 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1738 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1740 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1741 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1743 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1744 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1745 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1747 New library features
1748 --------------------
1750 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1752 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1753 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1754 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1755 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1757 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1758 message with the new function:
1760 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1762 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1763 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1764 over all available filenames for a given message.
1766 New command-line features
1767 -------------------------
1769 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1771 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1772 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1773 access to the mail store itself.
1775 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1776 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1777 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1778 name of a script containing:
1780 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1782 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1783 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1789 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1791 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1793 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1795 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1796 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1797 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1798 now produces nothing).
1800 Emacs interface improvements
1801 ----------------------------
1803 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1805 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1807 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1809 Display current thread subject in a header line
1811 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1813 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1815 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1816 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1817 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1818 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1819 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1820 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1821 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1823 Vim interface improvements
1824 --------------------------
1826 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1828 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1829 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1835 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1837 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1838 ========================
1840 New command-line features
1841 -------------------------
1843 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1845 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1846 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1847 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1849 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1850 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1851 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1852 scripts. For example:
1854 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1855 <operations-on> "$file"
1858 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1860 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1861 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1862 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1863 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1864 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1865 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1867 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1869 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1870 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1871 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1872 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1874 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1876 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1877 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1878 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1879 default rather than Bcc.
1881 New library features
1882 --------------------
1884 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1886 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1887 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1892 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1894 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1895 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1896 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1897 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1898 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1899 notmuch customize interface.
1901 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1903 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1904 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1905 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1906 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1908 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1910 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1911 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1912 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1913 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1915 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1917 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1918 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1919 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1920 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1921 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1922 notmuch customize interface.
1924 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1926 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1927 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1928 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1929 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1930 notmuch customize interface.
1932 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1934 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1935 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1936 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1937 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1940 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1942 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1943 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1944 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1947 New build-system features
1948 -------------------------
1950 Various portability fixes have been applied
1952 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1953 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1954 more portable than ever before.
1956 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1958 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1959 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1960 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1962 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1963 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1964 automatically run ldconfig.
1966 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1967 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1968 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1970 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1971 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1972 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1973 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1975 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1977 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1978 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1979 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1980 used in the resulting Makefile.
1982 New test-suite features
1983 -----------------------
1985 New modularization of test suite
1987 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1988 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1989 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1990 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1991 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1992 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1993 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1994 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1996 New testing of emacs interface
1998 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1999 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2000 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2001 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2002 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2003 database via the FCC setting.
2008 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2010 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2011 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2012 persistent error of the form:
2014 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2016 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2017 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2019 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2021 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2022 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2023 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2025 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2027 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2028 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2029 parsing the notmuch results).
2031 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2033 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2036 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2037 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2038 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2043 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2045 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2046 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2047 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2048 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2049 the emacs interface.
2051 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2053 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2054 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2055 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2057 Python-binding fixes
2058 --------------------
2060 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2062 Debian-specific fixes
2063 ---------------------
2065 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2067 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2068 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2069 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2072 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2073 ==========================
2078 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2080 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2081 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2082 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2083 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2085 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2087 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2088 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2089 want notmuch to crash.
2094 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2096 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2097 directory does not exist
2102 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2104 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2105 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2107 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2108 ========================
2110 New command-line features
2111 -------------------------
2113 User-configurable tags for new messages
2115 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2116 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2117 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2118 to specify this value.
2120 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2122 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2123 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2124 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2126 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2128 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2129 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2131 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2133 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2134 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2135 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2136 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2137 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2140 Indication of author names that match a search
2142 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2143 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2144 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2145 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2146 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2147 messages in the thread are listed first.
2149 New: Python bindings
2150 --------------------
2152 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2153 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2154 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2155 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2157 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2158 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2159 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2162 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2163 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2164 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2166 Emacs interface improvements
2167 ----------------------------
2169 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2171 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2172 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2173 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2174 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2175 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2176 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2177 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2178 but without any of the disadvantages).
2180 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2181 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2182 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2185 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2186 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2187 instead running something like:
2189 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2191 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2192 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2193 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2196 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2198 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2199 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2200 tweaked by the user.
2202 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2203 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2204 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2207 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2208 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2209 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2212 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2214 This support currently relies on an external program,
2215 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2216 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2217 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2218 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2219 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2222 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2223 notmuch) is available via:
2225 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2227 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2228 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2229 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2231 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2233 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2234 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2235 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2236 making this automatic in a future release.
2238 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2240 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2241 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2242 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2243 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2244 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2245 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2248 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2250 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2251 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2252 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2254 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2256 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2257 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2258 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2260 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2261 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2262 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2263 other representation.
2265 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2266 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2269 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2271 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2272 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2273 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2275 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2276 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2277 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2279 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2281 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2282 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2283 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2284 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2285 to display the search result.
2287 More flexible handling of header visibility
2289 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2290 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2291 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2292 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2293 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2294 with the 'h' keybinding.
2296 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2297 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2298 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2300 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2302 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2304 Customizable formatting of search results
2306 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2307 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2308 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2310 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2312 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2314 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2319 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2321 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2322 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2323 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2324 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2330 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2332 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2333 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2335 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2337 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2338 accept are now all accepted.
2343 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2345 Better display of output from failed tests
2347 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2348 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2350 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2351 ========================
2353 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2354 detailed release notes this time!
2356 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2357 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2359 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2360 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2361 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2362 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2369 Better guessing of From: header
2371 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2372 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2373 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2374 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2375 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2378 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2380 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2381 guaranteed to match all messages.
2383 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2385 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2386 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2387 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2388 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2389 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2392 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2395 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2396 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2397 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2398 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2403 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2405 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2406 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2407 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2408 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2410 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2412 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2414 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2415 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2416 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2418 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2420 Previously, the user might see:
2422 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2426 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2428 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2429 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2430 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2431 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2433 Emacs client features
2434 ---------------------
2436 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2438 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2439 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2440 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2441 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2442 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2444 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2447 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2448 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2449 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2450 search with the '*' binding.
2452 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2454 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2455 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2458 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2460 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2461 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2462 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2464 Build-system features
2465 ---------------------
2467 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2469 Add support to configure for many standard options
2471 We include actual support for:
2473 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2475 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2477 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2478 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2480 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2481 separate "make install-emacs"
2483 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2485 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2486 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2487 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2489 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2492 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2493 ========================
2495 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2497 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2498 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2500 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2501 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2502 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2503 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2504 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2505 tags from messages in a thread.
2512 indent-tabs-mode: nil