1 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2 ===========================
7 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
9 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
11 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
13 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
14 structure for signatures changed slightly.
16 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
18 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
21 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
22 ===========================
24 This is a bug fix and portability release.
29 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
31 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
33 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
35 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
37 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
43 Use --quick when starting emacs
45 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
47 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
49 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
51 Command-Line Interface
52 ----------------------
54 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
55 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
60 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
62 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
63 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
65 Fix for phrase indexing
67 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
68 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
69 will affect only newly indexed messages.
74 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
76 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
77 unintentionally removed.
79 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
80 =========================
85 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
86 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
87 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
88 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
89 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
90 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
91 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
92 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
93 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
99 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
101 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
102 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
103 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
104 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
105 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
106 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
107 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
108 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
110 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
112 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
113 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
114 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
115 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
118 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
120 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
121 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
122 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
123 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
124 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
125 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
126 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
131 Notmuch database upgrade
133 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
134 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
135 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
136 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
137 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
138 released version of Notmuch before now.
140 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
142 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
143 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
144 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
145 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
147 Message header parsing changes
149 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
150 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
151 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
152 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
153 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
154 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
156 Command-Line Interface
157 ----------------------
159 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
161 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
163 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
165 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
167 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
169 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
170 user does not want it.
172 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
174 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
175 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
176 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
177 support formatted output.
179 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
181 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
182 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
183 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
191 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
192 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
193 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
194 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
195 `~/.emacs` with these.
197 Changed format for saved searches
199 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
200 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
201 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
202 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
205 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
206 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
207 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
208 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
210 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
211 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
212 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
214 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
215 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
216 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
217 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
218 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
220 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
222 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
223 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
224 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
226 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
228 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
229 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
230 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
231 message had been unread).
233 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
234 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
235 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
236 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
238 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
239 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
240 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
242 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
243 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
244 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
245 to tags already present.
249 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
250 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
251 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
252 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
253 these differ from each other.
254 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
256 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
258 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
259 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
260 for these Emacs versions.
262 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
264 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
265 newlines before calling notmuch count.
267 Bug fixes for sender identities
269 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
270 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
271 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
273 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
275 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
276 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
277 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
278 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
280 Reply pushes mark before signature
282 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
283 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
284 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
286 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
288 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
289 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
295 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
296 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
298 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
299 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
300 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
301 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
303 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
304 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
305 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
306 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
307 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
309 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
311 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
312 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
314 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
315 =========================
317 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
318 ---------------------------------------
320 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
321 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
322 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
323 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
324 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
325 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
326 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
330 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
331 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
333 Command-Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
338 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
339 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
340 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
341 print for each message.
343 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
344 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
345 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
346 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
348 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
350 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
351 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
352 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
354 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
356 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
357 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
358 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
359 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
361 `notmuch compact` command
363 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
364 functionality through a more convenient interface than
365 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
366 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
367 move the compacted database into place.
372 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
374 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
375 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
376 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
377 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
378 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
379 and multiple threads.
383 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
385 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
386 search, show and tree mode itself)
388 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
391 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
392 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
394 Customising `notmuch-tree`
396 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
397 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
398 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
399 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
400 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
401 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
402 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
404 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
406 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
407 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
408 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
409 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
410 thread when the search was performed.
412 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
414 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
415 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
416 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
418 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
420 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
421 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
424 Built-in help improvements
426 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
427 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
428 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
430 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
432 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
433 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
434 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
436 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
438 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
439 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
441 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
443 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
444 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
445 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
446 to move some of them to the common keymap.
448 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
450 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
451 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
452 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
453 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
455 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
457 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
458 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
459 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
461 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
463 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
464 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
465 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
467 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
469 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
470 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
471 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
472 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
473 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
475 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
477 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
478 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
479 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
480 the body part of the message.
485 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
486 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
487 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
489 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
490 =========================
492 Command-Line Interface
493 ----------------------
495 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
497 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
498 folder and notmuch index.
500 `notmuch count --batch` option
502 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
503 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
505 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
507 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
508 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
509 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
512 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
514 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
515 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
516 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
517 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
518 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
521 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
523 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
524 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
526 Top level option to specify configuration file
528 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
529 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
531 Bash command-line completion
533 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
534 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
535 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
536 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
537 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
538 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
539 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
540 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
541 bash-completion package.
543 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
548 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
550 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
551 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
552 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
553 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
554 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
555 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
556 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
557 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
559 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
561 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
562 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
563 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
565 Key bindings for next/previous thread
567 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
568 previous thread in the search results.
570 Better handling of errors in search buffers
572 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
573 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
575 Faster search and show
577 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
578 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
579 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
580 threads should show faster.
584 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
585 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
586 in question was now removed from this release.
591 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
592 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
597 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
599 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
600 ===========================
605 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
607 Internal test framework changes
608 -------------------------------
610 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
613 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
614 ===========================
616 Internal test framework changes
617 -------------------------------
619 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
620 build failures in non-interactive environments.
622 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
623 =========================
628 Date range search support
630 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
631 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
632 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
633 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
634 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
637 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
639 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
640 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
641 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
642 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
643 but may be removed in a future release.
645 Command-Line Interface
646 ----------------------
648 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
650 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
651 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
653 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
655 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
656 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
657 officially deprecated.
659 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
661 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
662 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
663 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
665 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
667 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
668 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
671 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
672 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
675 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
677 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
678 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
679 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
681 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
683 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
684 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
685 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
687 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
689 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
690 output separated by null characters rather than newline
691 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
692 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
697 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
699 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
700 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
701 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
702 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
704 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
706 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
707 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
708 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
709 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
710 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
711 the behavior of this, see
712 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
713 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
715 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
716 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
717 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
719 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
721 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
722 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
725 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
727 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
728 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
729 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
730 simply displayed in place of the message.
732 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
734 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
735 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
737 Improved text/calendar content handling
739 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
740 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
741 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
742 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
744 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
746 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
747 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
748 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
749 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
751 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
753 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
754 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
755 for HTML email containing images.
757 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
759 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
761 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
763 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
766 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
768 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
769 the point where it was.
771 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
773 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
774 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
775 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
776 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
777 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
779 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
781 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
782 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
783 thread instead of the message id.
785 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
786 -----------------------------
788 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
789 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
790 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
791 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
792 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
793 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
794 further details and installation.
799 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
801 Internal test framework changes
802 -------------------------------
804 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
806 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
807 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
808 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
809 can result in buggy behavior.
811 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
812 =========================
817 Maildir tag synchronization
819 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
820 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
821 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
822 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
823 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
824 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
827 Command-Line Interface
828 ----------------------
830 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
831 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
832 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
833 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
834 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
840 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
842 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
844 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
845 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
846 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
848 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
850 It is now possible to embed newlines in
851 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
854 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
856 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
857 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
858 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
859 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
860 inside the result or message.
862 Search now uses the JSON format internally
864 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
865 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
867 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
868 user-specified formatting
870 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
871 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
872 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
873 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
874 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
876 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
877 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
879 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
880 ===========================
885 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
886 compilation error for this contrib package.
888 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
889 ===========================
894 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
896 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
897 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
898 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
899 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
901 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
902 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
905 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
906 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
907 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
908 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
911 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
913 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
916 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
917 =========================
919 Command-Line Interface
920 ----------------------
924 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
925 for a reply message and full information about the original message
926 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
927 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
929 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
930 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
931 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
932 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
936 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
937 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
939 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
940 tag in your query, for example:
942 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
944 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
945 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
947 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
948 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
950 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
952 Raw show format changes
954 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
955 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
956 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
957 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
958 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
959 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
960 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
961 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
963 Listing configuration items
965 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
971 Changes to tagging interface
973 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
974 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
975 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
976 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
977 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
978 for more information.
980 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
981 may need to update in custom configurations.
983 Reply improvement using the JSON format
985 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
986 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
987 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
988 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
991 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
992 -----------------------------
994 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
995 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
996 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
997 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
998 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
999 contrib/ from now on.
1004 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1005 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1007 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1008 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1010 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1011 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1012 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1014 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1015 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1017 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1018 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1019 returning the new database object or directory object.
1026 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1027 compatible with go 1.
1029 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1030 =========================
1032 Command-Line Interface
1033 ----------------------
1037 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1038 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1039 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1040 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1042 Mail store folder/file ignore
1044 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1045 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1046 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1048 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1049 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1051 Unified help and manual pages
1053 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1054 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1057 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1059 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1060 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1068 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1069 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1070 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1071 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1073 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1075 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1076 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1078 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1081 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1082 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1083 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1085 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1087 should be changed to:
1089 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1091 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1093 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1094 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1096 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1098 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1099 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1100 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1101 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1102 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1103 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1107 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1108 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1109 of Mailing List Archives.
1111 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1113 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1114 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1117 Show view archiving key binding changes
1119 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1120 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1121 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1122 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1123 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1126 Support text/calendar MIME type
1128 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1131 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1133 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1134 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1135 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1136 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1138 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1140 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1141 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1142 messages blue by default in the search view.
1146 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1147 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1154 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1157 Python bindings changes
1158 -----------------------
1160 Python 3.2 compatibility
1162 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1164 Added missing unicode conversions
1166 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1167 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1168 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1173 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1175 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1176 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1177 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1178 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1179 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1181 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1182 ===========================
1187 Fix error handling in python bindings
1189 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1190 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1191 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1192 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1194 Quote MML tags in replies
1196 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1197 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1198 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1199 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1200 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1201 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1202 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1203 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1205 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1206 =========================
1208 Command-Line Interface
1209 ----------------------
1213 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1214 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1215 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1216 importing new messages into the database.
1218 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1220 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1221 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1222 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1227 Automatic tag query optimization
1229 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1230 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1231 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1233 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1235 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1236 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1237 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1242 Reduction of memory leaks
1244 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1245 and fixed in this release.
1252 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1253 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1254 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1257 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1259 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1260 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1261 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1264 Improvements in saved search management
1266 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1267 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1268 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1270 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1272 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1273 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1274 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1276 New face for crypto parts headers
1278 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1279 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1280 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1283 Use space as default thousands separator
1285 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1286 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1287 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1289 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1290 buttonized id: links
1292 New function notmuch-show-advance
1294 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1295 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1296 be bound to SPC with:
1298 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1300 Various performance improvements
1305 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1306 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1309 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1310 ===========================
1315 Fix crash in python bindings
1317 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1318 for some, but not all users.
1320 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1321 ===========================
1326 Fix `--help` argument
1328 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1329 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1330 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1332 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1333 =========================
1335 New build and testing features
1336 ------------------------------
1338 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1339 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1340 prerequisites is improved.
1342 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1344 New command-line features
1345 -------------------------
1347 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1349 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1350 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1353 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1355 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1356 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1357 favour of using stdout.
1359 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1361 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1362 limit the number of results shown.
1364 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1366 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1367 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1370 New emacs UI features
1371 ---------------------
1373 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1375 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1376 starting with "tag:".
1378 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1380 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1381 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1383 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1385 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1387 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1389 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1390 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1395 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1397 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1399 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1400 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1401 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1402 requires a database rebuild:
1404 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1405 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1407 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1409 New collection of add-on tools
1410 ------------------------------
1412 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1413 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1414 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1417 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1419 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1420 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1421 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1423 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1424 ========================
1426 New, general features
1427 ---------------------
1429 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1431 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1432 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1433 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1434 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1435 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1442 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1443 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1445 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1449 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1450 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1451 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1454 Python bindings changes
1455 -----------------------
1457 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1459 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1460 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1461 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1462 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1463 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1464 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1466 Ruby bindings changes
1467 ---------------------
1469 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1470 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1471 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1472 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1477 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1479 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1480 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1482 Reply formatting cleanup
1483 ------------------------
1485 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1486 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1488 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1489 ========================
1491 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1493 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1494 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1495 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1496 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1499 Improved Build system portability
1501 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1502 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1503 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1505 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1507 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1509 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1511 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1512 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1513 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1515 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1516 ========================
1518 Vim interface improvements
1519 --------------------------
1521 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1523 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1524 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1525 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1526 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1527 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1529 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1531 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1532 * fix compose temp file name
1534 Python Bindings changes
1535 -----------------------
1537 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1539 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1540 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1542 Build-System improvements
1543 -------------------------
1545 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1547 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1550 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1551 ==========================
1556 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1558 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1559 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1561 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1562 =======================
1564 New, general features
1565 ---------------------
1567 Folder-based searching
1569 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1570 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1571 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1575 For example, one might use things such as:
1581 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1582 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1584 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1585 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1586 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1587 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1589 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1590 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1591 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1594 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1595 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1597 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1599 Support for PGP/MIME
1601 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1602 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1603 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1605 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1607 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1608 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1610 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1611 notmuch will receive these tags.
1613 New command-line features
1614 -------------------------
1616 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1618 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1619 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1621 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1623 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1624 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1625 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1627 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1629 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1630 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1631 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1632 which parts a signature part applies).
1634 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1636 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1637 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1638 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1639 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1640 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1643 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1645 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1646 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1647 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1648 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1649 by translating it internally to the new call.
1651 Performance improvements
1652 ------------------------
1654 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1656 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1657 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1658 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1660 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1661 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1663 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1665 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1666 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1667 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1669 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1670 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1671 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1672 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1674 Faster initial indexing
1676 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1677 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1678 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1680 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1682 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1683 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1684 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1685 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1687 New emacs-interface features
1688 ----------------------------
1690 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1692 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1693 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1694 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1695 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1696 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1697 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1699 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1701 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1702 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1703 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1704 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1706 User-selectable From address
1708 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1709 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1710 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1711 will prompt for the from address to use.
1713 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1714 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1715 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1717 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1718 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1719 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1722 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1724 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1725 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1727 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1729 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1731 ----- Original Message -----
1733 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1734 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1735 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1736 citations work much like conventional citations.
1738 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1740 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1741 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1742 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1743 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1744 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1746 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1747 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1749 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1751 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1752 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1753 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1755 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1757 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1758 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1759 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1760 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1761 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1763 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1765 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1768 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1770 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1772 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1774 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1777 Vim interface improvements
1778 --------------------------
1780 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1782 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1783 * Implementing archive in show view
1784 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1785 * Add delete commands
1788 Bindings improvements
1789 ---------------------
1791 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1793 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1794 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1796 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1798 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1802 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1803 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1804 `list(Messages)` works now
1805 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1807 These allow, for example:
1809 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1811 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1813 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1819 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1821 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1824 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1826 New build-system features
1827 -------------------------
1829 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1831 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1832 the configure script from some other directory:
1839 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1841 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1842 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1843 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1844 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1845 manual invocation of configure.
1847 New test-suite feature
1848 ----------------------
1850 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1852 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1853 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1854 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1855 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1856 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1859 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1861 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1862 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1863 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1864 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1865 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1866 are updated to take advantage of this.
1868 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1870 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1871 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1872 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1873 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1879 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1881 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1882 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1883 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1885 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1887 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1889 to:user@elsewhere.com
1891 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1893 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1895 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1897 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1898 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1899 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1902 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1903 from the Received headers in some cases
1905 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1906 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1908 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1910 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1912 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1914 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1915 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1916 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1918 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1919 -------------------------
1921 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1923 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1924 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1925 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1927 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1929 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1930 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1931 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1934 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1936 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1937 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1938 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1939 fixed to avoid this bug.
1941 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1943 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1944 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1946 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1947 ========================
1949 New, general features
1950 ---------------------
1952 Maildir-flag synchronization
1954 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1955 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1964 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1966 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1967 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1968 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1969 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1971 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1972 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1973 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1974 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1977 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1979 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1980 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1981 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1983 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1984 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1986 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1987 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1989 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1990 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1991 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1993 New library features
1994 --------------------
1996 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1998 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1999 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2000 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2001 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2003 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2004 message with the new function:
2006 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2008 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2009 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2010 over all available filenames for a given message.
2012 New command-line features
2013 -------------------------
2015 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2017 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2018 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2019 access to the mail store itself.
2021 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2022 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2023 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2024 name of a script containing:
2026 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2028 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2029 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2035 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2037 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2039 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2041 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2042 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2043 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2044 now produces nothing).
2046 Emacs interface improvements
2047 ----------------------------
2049 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2051 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2053 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2055 Display current thread subject in a header line
2057 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2059 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2061 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2062 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2063 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2064 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2065 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2066 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2067 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2069 Vim interface improvements
2070 --------------------------
2072 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2074 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2075 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2081 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2083 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2084 ========================
2086 New command-line features
2087 -------------------------
2089 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2091 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2092 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2093 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2095 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2096 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2097 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2098 scripts. For example:
2100 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2101 <operations-on> "$file"
2104 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2106 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2107 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2108 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2109 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2110 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2111 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2113 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2115 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2116 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2117 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2118 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2120 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2122 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2123 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2124 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2125 default rather than Bcc.
2127 New library features
2128 --------------------
2130 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2132 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2133 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2138 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2140 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2141 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2142 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2143 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2144 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2145 notmuch customize interface.
2147 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2149 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2150 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2151 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2152 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2154 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2156 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2157 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2158 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2159 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2161 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2163 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2164 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2165 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2166 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2167 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2168 notmuch customize interface.
2170 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2172 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2173 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2174 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2175 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2176 notmuch customize interface.
2178 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2180 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2181 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2182 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2183 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2186 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2188 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2189 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2190 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2193 New build-system features
2194 -------------------------
2196 Various portability fixes have been applied
2198 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2199 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2200 more portable than ever before.
2202 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2204 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2205 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2206 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2208 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2209 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2210 automatically run ldconfig.
2212 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2213 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2214 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2216 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2217 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2218 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2219 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2221 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2223 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2224 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2225 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2226 used in the resulting Makefile.
2228 New test-suite features
2229 -----------------------
2231 New modularization of test suite
2233 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2234 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2235 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2236 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2237 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2238 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2239 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2240 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2242 New testing of emacs interface
2244 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2245 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2246 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2247 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2248 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2249 database via the FCC setting.
2254 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2256 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2257 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2258 persistent error of the form:
2260 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2262 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2263 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2265 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2267 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2268 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2269 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2271 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2273 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2274 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2275 parsing the notmuch results).
2277 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2279 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2282 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2283 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2284 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2289 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2291 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2292 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2293 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2294 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2295 the emacs interface.
2297 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2299 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2300 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2301 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2303 Python-binding fixes
2304 --------------------
2306 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2308 Debian-specific fixes
2309 ---------------------
2311 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2313 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2314 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2315 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2318 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2319 ==========================
2324 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2326 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2327 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2328 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2329 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2331 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2333 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2334 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2335 want notmuch to crash.
2340 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2342 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2343 directory does not exist
2348 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2350 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2351 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2353 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2354 ========================
2356 New command-line features
2357 -------------------------
2359 User-configurable tags for new messages
2361 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2362 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2363 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2364 to specify this value.
2366 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2368 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2369 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2370 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2372 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2374 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2375 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2377 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2379 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2380 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2381 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2382 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2383 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2386 Indication of author names that match a search
2388 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2389 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2390 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2391 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2392 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2393 messages in the thread are listed first.
2395 New: Python bindings
2396 --------------------
2398 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2399 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2400 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2401 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2403 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2404 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2405 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2408 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2409 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2410 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2412 Emacs interface improvements
2413 ----------------------------
2415 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2417 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2418 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2419 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2420 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2421 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2422 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2423 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2424 but without any of the disadvantages).
2426 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2427 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2428 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2431 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2432 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2433 instead running something like:
2435 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2437 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2438 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2439 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2442 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2444 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2445 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2446 tweaked by the user.
2448 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2449 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2450 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2453 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2454 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2455 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2458 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2460 This support currently relies on an external program,
2461 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2462 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2463 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2464 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2465 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2468 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2469 notmuch) is available via:
2471 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2473 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2474 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2475 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2477 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2479 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2480 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2481 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2482 making this automatic in a future release.
2484 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2486 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2487 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2488 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2489 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2490 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2491 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2494 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2496 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2497 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2498 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2500 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2502 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2503 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2504 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2506 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2507 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2508 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2509 other representation.
2511 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2512 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2515 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2517 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2518 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2519 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2521 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2522 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2523 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2525 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2527 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2528 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2529 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2530 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2531 to display the search result.
2533 More flexible handling of header visibility
2535 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2536 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2537 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2538 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2539 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2540 with the 'h' keybinding.
2542 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2543 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2544 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2546 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2548 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2550 Customizable formatting of search results
2552 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2553 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2554 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2556 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2558 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2560 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2565 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2567 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2568 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2569 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2570 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2576 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2578 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2579 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2581 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2583 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2584 accept are now all accepted.
2589 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2591 Better display of output from failed tests
2593 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2594 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2596 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2597 ========================
2599 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2600 detailed release notes this time!
2602 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2603 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2605 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2606 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2607 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2608 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2615 Better guessing of From: header
2617 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2618 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2619 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2620 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2621 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2624 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2626 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2627 guaranteed to match all messages.
2629 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2631 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2632 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2633 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2634 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2635 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2638 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2641 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2642 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2643 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2644 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2649 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2651 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2652 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2653 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2654 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2656 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2658 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2660 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2661 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2662 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2664 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2666 Previously, the user might see:
2668 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2672 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2674 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2675 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2676 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2677 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2679 Emacs client features
2680 ---------------------
2682 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2684 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2685 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2686 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2687 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2688 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2690 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2693 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2694 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2695 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2696 search with the '*' binding.
2698 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2700 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2701 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2704 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2706 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2707 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2708 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2710 Build-system features
2711 ---------------------
2713 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2715 Add support to configure for many standard options
2717 We include actual support for:
2719 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2721 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2723 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2724 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2726 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2727 separate "make install-emacs"
2729 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2731 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2732 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2733 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2735 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2738 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2739 ========================
2741 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2743 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2744 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2746 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2747 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2748 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2749 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2750 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2751 tags from messages in a thread.
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