1 Notmuch 0.19~rc1 (2014-11-06)
2 =============================
7 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
9 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
10 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
11 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
12 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
13 script callers should still check the return value.
18 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
20 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
21 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
22 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
25 Expanded default saved search settings
27 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
28 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
30 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
32 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
33 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
34 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
39 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
40 notmuch_database_destroy
45 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
46 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
47 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
48 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
49 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
50 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
55 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
56 from the config file. Use something like:
60 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
61 "footer": "</body></html>",
70 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
75 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
76 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
77 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
79 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
80 ===========================
85 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
87 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
89 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
91 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
92 structure for signatures changed slightly.
94 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
96 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
99 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
100 ===========================
102 This is a bug fix and portability release.
107 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
109 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
111 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
113 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
115 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
121 Use --quick when starting emacs
123 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
125 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
127 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
129 Command-Line Interface
130 ----------------------
132 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
133 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
138 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
140 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
141 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
143 Fix for phrase indexing
145 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
146 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
147 will affect only newly indexed messages.
152 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
154 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
155 unintentionally removed.
157 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
158 =========================
163 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
164 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
165 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
166 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
167 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
168 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
169 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
170 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
171 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
177 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
179 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
180 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
181 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
182 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
183 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
184 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
185 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
186 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
188 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
190 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
191 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
192 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
193 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
196 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
198 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
199 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
200 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
201 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
202 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
203 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
204 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
209 Notmuch database upgrade
211 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
212 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
213 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
214 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
215 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
216 released version of Notmuch before now.
218 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
220 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
221 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
222 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
223 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
225 Message header parsing changes
227 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
228 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
229 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
230 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
231 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
232 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
234 Command-Line Interface
235 ----------------------
237 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
239 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
241 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
243 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
245 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
247 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
248 user does not want it.
250 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
252 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
253 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
254 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
255 support formatted output.
257 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
259 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
260 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
261 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
269 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
270 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
271 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
272 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
273 `~/.emacs` with these.
275 Changed format for saved searches
277 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
278 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
279 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
280 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
283 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
284 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
285 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
286 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
288 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
289 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
290 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
292 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
293 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
294 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
295 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
296 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
298 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
300 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
301 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
302 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
304 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
306 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
307 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
308 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
309 message had been unread).
311 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
312 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
313 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
314 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
316 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
317 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
318 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
320 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
321 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
322 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
323 to tags already present.
327 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
328 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
329 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
330 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
331 these differ from each other.
332 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
334 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
336 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
337 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
338 for these Emacs versions.
340 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
342 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
343 newlines before calling notmuch count.
345 Bug fixes for sender identities
347 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
348 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
349 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
351 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
353 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
354 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
355 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
356 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
358 Reply pushes mark before signature
360 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
361 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
362 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
364 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
366 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
367 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
373 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
374 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
376 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
377 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
378 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
379 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
381 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
382 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
383 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
384 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
385 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
387 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
389 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
390 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
392 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
393 =========================
395 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
396 ---------------------------------------
398 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
399 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
400 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
401 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
402 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
403 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
404 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
408 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
409 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
411 Command-Line Interface
412 ----------------------
414 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
416 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
417 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
418 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
419 print for each message.
421 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
422 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
423 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
424 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
426 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
428 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
429 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
430 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
432 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
434 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
435 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
436 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
437 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
439 `notmuch compact` command
441 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
442 functionality through a more convenient interface than
443 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
444 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
445 move the compacted database into place.
450 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
452 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
453 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
454 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
455 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
456 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
457 and multiple threads.
461 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
463 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
464 search, show and tree mode itself)
466 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
469 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
470 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
472 Customising `notmuch-tree`
474 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
475 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
476 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
477 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
478 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
479 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
480 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
482 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
484 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
485 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
486 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
487 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
488 thread when the search was performed.
490 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
492 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
493 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
494 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
496 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
498 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
499 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
502 Built-in help improvements
504 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
505 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
506 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
508 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
510 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
511 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
512 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
514 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
516 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
517 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
519 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
521 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
522 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
523 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
524 to move some of them to the common keymap.
526 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
528 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
529 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
530 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
531 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
533 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
535 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
536 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
537 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
539 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
541 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
542 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
543 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
545 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
547 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
548 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
549 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
550 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
551 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
553 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
555 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
556 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
557 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
558 the body part of the message.
563 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
564 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
565 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
567 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
568 =========================
570 Command-Line Interface
571 ----------------------
573 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
575 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
576 folder and notmuch index.
578 `notmuch count --batch` option
580 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
581 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
583 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
585 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
586 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
587 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
590 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
592 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
593 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
594 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
595 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
596 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
599 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
601 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
602 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
604 Top level option to specify configuration file
606 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
607 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
609 Bash command-line completion
611 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
612 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
613 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
614 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
615 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
616 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
617 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
618 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
619 bash-completion package.
621 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
626 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
628 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
629 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
630 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
631 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
632 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
633 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
634 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
635 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
637 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
639 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
640 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
641 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
643 Key bindings for next/previous thread
645 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
646 previous thread in the search results.
648 Better handling of errors in search buffers
650 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
651 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
653 Faster search and show
655 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
656 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
657 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
658 threads should show faster.
662 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
663 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
664 in question was now removed from this release.
669 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
670 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
675 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
677 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
678 ===========================
683 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
685 Internal test framework changes
686 -------------------------------
688 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
691 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
692 ===========================
694 Internal test framework changes
695 -------------------------------
697 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
698 build failures in non-interactive environments.
700 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
701 =========================
706 Date range search support
708 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
709 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
710 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
711 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
712 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
715 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
717 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
718 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
719 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
720 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
721 but may be removed in a future release.
723 Command-Line Interface
724 ----------------------
726 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
728 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
729 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
731 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
733 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
734 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
735 officially deprecated.
737 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
739 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
740 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
741 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
743 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
745 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
746 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
749 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
750 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
753 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
755 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
756 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
757 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
759 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
761 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
762 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
763 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
765 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
767 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
768 output separated by null characters rather than newline
769 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
770 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
775 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
777 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
778 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
779 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
780 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
782 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
784 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
785 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
786 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
787 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
788 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
789 the behavior of this, see
790 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
791 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
793 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
794 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
795 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
797 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
799 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
800 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
803 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
805 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
806 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
807 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
808 simply displayed in place of the message.
810 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
812 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
813 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
815 Improved text/calendar content handling
817 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
818 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
819 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
820 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
822 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
824 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
825 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
826 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
827 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
829 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
831 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
832 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
833 for HTML email containing images.
835 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
837 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
839 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
841 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
844 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
846 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
847 the point where it was.
849 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
851 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
852 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
853 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
854 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
855 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
857 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
859 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
860 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
861 thread instead of the message id.
863 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
864 -----------------------------
866 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
867 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
868 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
869 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
870 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
871 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
872 further details and installation.
877 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
879 Internal test framework changes
880 -------------------------------
882 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
884 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
885 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
886 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
887 can result in buggy behavior.
889 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
890 =========================
895 Maildir tag synchronization
897 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
898 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
899 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
900 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
901 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
902 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
905 Command-Line Interface
906 ----------------------
908 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
909 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
910 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
911 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
912 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
918 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
920 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
922 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
923 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
924 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
926 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
928 It is now possible to embed newlines in
929 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
932 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
934 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
935 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
936 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
937 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
938 inside the result or message.
940 Search now uses the JSON format internally
942 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
943 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
945 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
946 user-specified formatting
948 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
949 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
950 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
951 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
952 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
954 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
955 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
957 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
958 ===========================
963 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
964 compilation error for this contrib package.
966 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
967 ===========================
972 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
974 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
975 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
976 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
977 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
979 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
980 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
983 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
984 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
985 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
986 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
989 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
991 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
994 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
995 =========================
997 Command-Line Interface
998 ----------------------
1002 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1003 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1004 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1005 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1007 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1008 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1009 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1010 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1014 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1015 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1017 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1018 tag in your query, for example:
1020 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1022 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1023 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1025 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1026 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1028 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1030 Raw show format changes
1032 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1033 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1034 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1035 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1036 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1037 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1038 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1039 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1041 Listing configuration items
1043 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1049 Changes to tagging interface
1051 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1052 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1053 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1054 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1055 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1056 for more information.
1058 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1059 may need to update in custom configurations.
1061 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1063 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1064 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1065 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1066 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1069 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1070 -----------------------------
1072 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1073 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1074 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1075 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1076 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1077 contrib/ from now on.
1082 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1083 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1085 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1086 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1088 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1089 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1090 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1092 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1093 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1095 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1096 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1097 returning the new database object or directory object.
1104 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1105 compatible with go 1.
1107 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1108 =========================
1110 Command-Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1115 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1116 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1117 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1118 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1120 Mail store folder/file ignore
1122 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1123 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1124 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1126 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1127 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1129 Unified help and manual pages
1131 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1132 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1135 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1137 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1138 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1146 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1147 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1148 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1149 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1151 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1153 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1154 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1156 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1159 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1160 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1161 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1163 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1165 should be changed to:
1167 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1169 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1171 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1172 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1174 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1176 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1177 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1178 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1179 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1180 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1181 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1185 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1186 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1187 of Mailing List Archives.
1189 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1191 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1192 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1195 Show view archiving key binding changes
1197 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1198 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1199 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1200 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1201 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1204 Support text/calendar MIME type
1206 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1209 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1211 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1212 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1213 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1214 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1216 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1218 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1219 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1220 messages blue by default in the search view.
1224 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1225 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1232 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1235 Python bindings changes
1236 -----------------------
1238 Python 3.2 compatibility
1240 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1242 Added missing unicode conversions
1244 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1245 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1246 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1251 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1253 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1254 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1255 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1256 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1257 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1259 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1260 ===========================
1265 Fix error handling in python bindings
1267 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1268 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1269 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1270 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1272 Quote MML tags in replies
1274 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1275 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1276 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1277 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1278 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1279 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1280 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1281 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1283 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1284 =========================
1286 Command-Line Interface
1287 ----------------------
1291 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1292 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1293 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1294 importing new messages into the database.
1296 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1298 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1299 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1300 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1305 Automatic tag query optimization
1307 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1308 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1309 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1311 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1313 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1314 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1315 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1320 Reduction of memory leaks
1322 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1323 and fixed in this release.
1330 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1331 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1332 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1335 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1337 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1338 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1339 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1342 Improvements in saved search management
1344 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1345 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1346 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1348 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1350 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1351 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1352 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1354 New face for crypto parts headers
1356 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1357 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1358 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1361 Use space as default thousands separator
1363 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1364 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1365 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1367 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1368 buttonized id: links
1370 New function notmuch-show-advance
1372 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1373 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1374 be bound to SPC with:
1376 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1378 Various performance improvements
1383 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1384 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1387 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1388 ===========================
1393 Fix crash in python bindings
1395 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1396 for some, but not all users.
1398 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1399 ===========================
1404 Fix `--help` argument
1406 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1407 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1408 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1410 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1411 =========================
1413 New build and testing features
1414 ------------------------------
1416 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1417 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1418 prerequisites is improved.
1420 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1422 New command-line features
1423 -------------------------
1425 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1427 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1428 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1431 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1433 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1434 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1435 favour of using stdout.
1437 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1439 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1440 limit the number of results shown.
1442 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1444 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1445 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1448 New emacs UI features
1449 ---------------------
1451 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1453 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1454 starting with "tag:".
1456 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1458 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1459 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1461 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1463 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1465 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1467 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1468 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1473 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1475 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1477 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1478 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1479 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1480 requires a database rebuild:
1482 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1483 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1485 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1487 New collection of add-on tools
1488 ------------------------------
1490 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1491 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1492 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1495 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1497 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1498 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1499 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1501 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1502 ========================
1504 New, general features
1505 ---------------------
1507 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1509 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1510 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1511 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1512 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1513 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1520 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1521 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1523 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1527 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1528 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1529 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1532 Python bindings changes
1533 -----------------------
1535 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1537 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1538 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1539 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1540 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1541 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1542 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1544 Ruby bindings changes
1545 ---------------------
1547 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1548 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1549 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1550 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1555 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1557 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1558 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1560 Reply formatting cleanup
1561 ------------------------
1563 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1564 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1566 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1567 ========================
1569 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1571 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1572 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1573 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1574 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1577 Improved Build system portability
1579 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1580 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1581 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1583 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1585 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1587 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1589 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1590 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1591 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1593 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1594 ========================
1596 Vim interface improvements
1597 --------------------------
1599 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1601 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1602 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1603 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1604 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1605 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1607 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1609 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1610 * fix compose temp file name
1612 Python Bindings changes
1613 -----------------------
1615 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1617 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1618 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1620 Build-System improvements
1621 -------------------------
1623 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1625 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1628 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1629 ==========================
1634 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1636 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1637 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1639 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1640 =======================
1642 New, general features
1643 ---------------------
1645 Folder-based searching
1647 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1648 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1649 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1653 For example, one might use things such as:
1659 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1660 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1662 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1663 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1664 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1665 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1667 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1668 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1669 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1672 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1673 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1675 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1677 Support for PGP/MIME
1679 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1680 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1681 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1683 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1685 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1686 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1688 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1689 notmuch will receive these tags.
1691 New command-line features
1692 -------------------------
1694 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1696 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1697 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1699 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1701 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1702 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1703 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1705 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1707 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1708 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1709 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1710 which parts a signature part applies).
1712 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1714 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1715 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1716 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1717 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1718 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1721 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1723 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1724 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1725 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1726 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1727 by translating it internally to the new call.
1729 Performance improvements
1730 ------------------------
1732 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1734 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1735 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1736 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1738 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1739 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1741 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1743 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1744 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1745 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1747 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1748 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1749 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1750 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1752 Faster initial indexing
1754 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1755 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1756 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1758 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1760 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1761 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1762 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1763 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1765 New emacs-interface features
1766 ----------------------------
1768 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1770 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1771 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1772 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1773 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1774 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1775 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1777 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1779 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1780 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1781 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1782 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1784 User-selectable From address
1786 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1787 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1788 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1789 will prompt for the from address to use.
1791 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1792 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1793 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1795 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1796 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1797 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1800 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1802 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1803 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1805 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1807 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1809 ----- Original Message -----
1811 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1812 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1813 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1814 citations work much like conventional citations.
1816 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1818 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1819 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1820 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1821 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1822 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1824 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1825 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1827 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1829 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1830 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1831 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1833 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1835 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1836 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1837 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1838 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1839 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1841 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1843 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1846 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1848 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1850 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1852 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1855 Vim interface improvements
1856 --------------------------
1858 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1860 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1861 * Implementing archive in show view
1862 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1863 * Add delete commands
1866 Bindings improvements
1867 ---------------------
1869 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1871 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1872 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1874 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1876 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1880 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1881 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1882 `list(Messages)` works now
1883 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1885 These allow, for example:
1887 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1889 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1891 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1897 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1899 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1902 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1904 New build-system features
1905 -------------------------
1907 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1909 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1910 the configure script from some other directory:
1917 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1919 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1920 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1921 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1922 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1923 manual invocation of configure.
1925 New test-suite feature
1926 ----------------------
1928 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1930 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1931 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1932 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1933 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1934 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1937 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1939 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1940 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1941 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1942 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1943 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1944 are updated to take advantage of this.
1946 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1948 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1949 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1950 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1951 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1957 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1959 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1960 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1961 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1963 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1965 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1967 to:user@elsewhere.com
1969 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1971 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1973 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1975 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1976 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1977 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1980 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1981 from the Received headers in some cases
1983 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1984 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1986 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1988 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1990 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1992 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1993 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1994 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1996 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1997 -------------------------
1999 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2001 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2002 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2003 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2005 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2007 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2008 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2009 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2012 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2014 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2015 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2016 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2017 fixed to avoid this bug.
2019 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2021 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2022 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2024 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2025 ========================
2027 New, general features
2028 ---------------------
2030 Maildir-flag synchronization
2032 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2033 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2042 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2044 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2045 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2046 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2047 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2049 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2050 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2051 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2052 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2055 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2057 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2058 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2059 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2061 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2062 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2064 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2065 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2067 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2068 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2069 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2071 New library features
2072 --------------------
2074 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2076 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2077 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2078 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2079 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2081 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2082 message with the new function:
2084 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2086 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2087 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2088 over all available filenames for a given message.
2090 New command-line features
2091 -------------------------
2093 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2095 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2096 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2097 access to the mail store itself.
2099 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2100 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2101 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2102 name of a script containing:
2104 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2106 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2107 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2113 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2115 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2117 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2119 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2120 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2121 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2122 now produces nothing).
2124 Emacs interface improvements
2125 ----------------------------
2127 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2129 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2131 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2133 Display current thread subject in a header line
2135 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2137 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2139 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2140 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2141 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2142 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2143 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2144 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2145 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2147 Vim interface improvements
2148 --------------------------
2150 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2152 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2153 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2159 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2161 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2162 ========================
2164 New command-line features
2165 -------------------------
2167 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2169 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2170 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2171 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2173 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2174 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2175 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2176 scripts. For example:
2178 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2179 <operations-on> "$file"
2182 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2184 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2185 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2186 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2187 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2188 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2189 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2191 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2193 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2194 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2195 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2196 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2198 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2200 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2201 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2202 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2203 default rather than Bcc.
2205 New library features
2206 --------------------
2208 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2210 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2211 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2216 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2218 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2219 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2220 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2221 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2222 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2223 notmuch customize interface.
2225 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2227 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2228 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2229 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2230 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2232 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2234 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2235 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2236 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2237 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2239 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2241 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2242 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2243 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2244 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2245 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2246 notmuch customize interface.
2248 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2250 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2251 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2252 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2253 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2254 notmuch customize interface.
2256 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2258 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2259 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2260 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2261 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2264 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2266 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2267 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2268 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2271 New build-system features
2272 -------------------------
2274 Various portability fixes have been applied
2276 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2277 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2278 more portable than ever before.
2280 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2282 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2283 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2284 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2286 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2287 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2288 automatically run ldconfig.
2290 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2291 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2292 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2294 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2295 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2296 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2297 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2299 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2301 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2302 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2303 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2304 used in the resulting Makefile.
2306 New test-suite features
2307 -----------------------
2309 New modularization of test suite
2311 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2312 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2313 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2314 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2315 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2316 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2317 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2318 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2320 New testing of emacs interface
2322 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2323 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2324 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2325 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2326 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2327 database via the FCC setting.
2332 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2334 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2335 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2336 persistent error of the form:
2338 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2340 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2341 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2343 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2345 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2346 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2347 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2349 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2351 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2352 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2353 parsing the notmuch results).
2355 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2357 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2360 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2361 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2362 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2367 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2369 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2370 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2371 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2372 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2373 the emacs interface.
2375 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2377 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2378 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2379 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2381 Python-binding fixes
2382 --------------------
2384 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2386 Debian-specific fixes
2387 ---------------------
2389 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2391 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2392 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2393 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2396 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2397 ==========================
2402 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2404 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2405 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2406 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2407 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2409 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2411 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2412 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2413 want notmuch to crash.
2418 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2420 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2421 directory does not exist
2426 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2428 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2429 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2431 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2432 ========================
2434 New command-line features
2435 -------------------------
2437 User-configurable tags for new messages
2439 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2440 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2441 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2442 to specify this value.
2444 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2446 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2447 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2448 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2450 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2452 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2453 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2455 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2457 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2458 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2459 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2460 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2461 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2464 Indication of author names that match a search
2466 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2467 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2468 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2469 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2470 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2471 messages in the thread are listed first.
2473 New: Python bindings
2474 --------------------
2476 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2477 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2478 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2479 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2481 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2482 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2483 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2486 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2487 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2488 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2490 Emacs interface improvements
2491 ----------------------------
2493 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2495 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2496 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2497 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2498 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2499 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2500 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2501 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2502 but without any of the disadvantages).
2504 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2505 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2506 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2509 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2510 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2511 instead running something like:
2513 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2515 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2516 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2517 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2520 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2522 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2523 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2524 tweaked by the user.
2526 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2527 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2528 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2531 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2532 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2533 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2536 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2538 This support currently relies on an external program,
2539 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2540 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2541 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2542 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2543 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2546 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2547 notmuch) is available via:
2549 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2551 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2552 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2553 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2555 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2557 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2558 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2559 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2560 making this automatic in a future release.
2562 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2564 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2565 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2566 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2567 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2568 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2569 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2572 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2574 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2575 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2576 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2578 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2580 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2581 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2582 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2584 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2585 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2586 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2587 other representation.
2589 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2590 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2593 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2595 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2596 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2597 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2599 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2600 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2601 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2603 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2605 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2606 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2607 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2608 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2609 to display the search result.
2611 More flexible handling of header visibility
2613 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2614 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2615 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2616 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2617 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2618 with the 'h' keybinding.
2620 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2621 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2622 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2624 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2626 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2628 Customizable formatting of search results
2630 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2631 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2632 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2634 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2636 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2638 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2643 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2645 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2646 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2647 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2648 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2654 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2656 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2657 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2659 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2661 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2662 accept are now all accepted.
2667 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2669 Better display of output from failed tests
2671 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2672 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2674 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2675 ========================
2677 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2678 detailed release notes this time!
2680 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2681 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2683 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2684 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2685 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2686 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2693 Better guessing of From: header
2695 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2696 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2697 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2698 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2699 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2702 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2704 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2705 guaranteed to match all messages.
2707 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2709 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2710 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2711 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2712 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2713 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2716 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2719 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2720 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2721 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2722 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2727 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2729 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2730 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2731 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2732 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2734 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2736 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2738 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2739 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2740 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2742 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2744 Previously, the user might see:
2746 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2750 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2752 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2753 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2754 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2755 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2757 Emacs client features
2758 ---------------------
2760 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2762 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2763 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2764 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2765 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2766 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2768 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2771 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2772 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2773 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2774 search with the '*' binding.
2776 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2778 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2779 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2782 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2784 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2785 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2786 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2788 Build-system features
2789 ---------------------
2791 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2793 Add support to configure for many standard options
2795 We include actual support for:
2797 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2799 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2801 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2802 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2804 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2805 separate "make install-emacs"
2807 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2809 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2810 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2811 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2813 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2816 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2817 ========================
2819 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2821 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2822 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2824 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2825 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2826 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2827 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2828 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2829 tags from messages in a thread.
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