1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
40 Bash command-line completion
42 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
43 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
44 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
45 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
46 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
47 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
48 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
49 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
50 bash-completion package.
52 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
54 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
55 folder and notmuch index.
60 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
61 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
66 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
68 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
69 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
70 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
71 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
72 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
73 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
74 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
75 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
77 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
79 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
80 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
81 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
83 Better handling of errors in search buffers
85 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
86 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
90 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
91 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
92 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
96 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
97 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
98 in question was now removed from this release.
100 Key bindings for next/previous thread
102 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
103 previous thread in the search results.
108 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
110 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
111 ===========================
116 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
118 Internal test framework changes
119 -------------------------------
121 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
124 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
125 ===========================
127 Internal test framework changes
128 -------------------------------
130 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
131 build failures in non-interactive environments.
133 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
134 =========================
139 Date range search support
141 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
142 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
143 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
144 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
145 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
148 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
150 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
151 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
152 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
153 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
154 but may be removed in a future release.
156 Command-Line Interface
157 ----------------------
159 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
161 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
162 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
164 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
166 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
167 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
168 officially deprecated.
170 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
172 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
173 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
174 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
176 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
178 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
179 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
182 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
183 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
186 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
188 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
189 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
190 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
192 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
194 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
195 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
196 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
198 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
200 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
201 output separated by null characters rather than newline
202 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
203 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
208 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
210 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
211 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
212 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
213 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
215 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
217 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
218 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
219 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
220 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
221 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
222 the behavior of this, see
223 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
224 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
226 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
227 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
228 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
230 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
232 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
233 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
236 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
238 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
239 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
240 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
241 simply displayed in place of the message.
243 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
245 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
246 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
248 Improved text/calendar content handling
250 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
251 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
252 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
253 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
255 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
257 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
258 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
259 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
260 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
262 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
264 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
265 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
266 for HTML email containing images.
268 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
270 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
272 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
274 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
277 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
279 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
280 the point where it was.
282 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
284 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
285 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
286 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
287 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
288 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
290 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
292 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
293 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
294 thread instead of the message id.
296 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
297 -----------------------------
299 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
300 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
301 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
302 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
303 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
304 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
305 further details and installation.
310 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
312 Internal test framework changes
313 -------------------------------
315 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
317 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
318 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
319 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
320 can result in buggy behavior.
322 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
323 =========================
328 Maildir tag synchronization
330 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
331 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
332 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
333 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
334 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
335 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
338 Command-Line Interface
339 ----------------------
341 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
342 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
343 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
344 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
345 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
351 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
353 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
355 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
356 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
357 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
359 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
361 It is now possible to embed newlines in
362 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
365 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
367 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
368 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
369 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
370 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
371 inside the result or message.
373 Search now uses the JSON format internally
375 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
376 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
378 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
379 user-specified formatting
381 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
382 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
383 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
384 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
385 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
387 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
388 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
390 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
391 ===========================
396 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
397 compilation error for this contrib package.
399 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
400 ===========================
405 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
407 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
408 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
409 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
410 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
412 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
413 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
416 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
417 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
418 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
419 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
422 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
424 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
427 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
428 =========================
430 Command-Line Interface
431 ----------------------
435 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
436 for a reply message and full information about the original message
437 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
438 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
440 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
441 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
442 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
443 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
447 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
448 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
450 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
451 tag in your query, for example:
453 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
455 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
456 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
458 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
459 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
461 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
463 Raw show format changes
465 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
466 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
467 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
468 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
469 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
470 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
471 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
472 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
474 Listing configuration items
476 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
482 Changes to tagging interface
484 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
485 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
486 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
487 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
488 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
489 for more information.
491 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
492 may need to update in custom configurations.
494 Reply improvement using the JSON format
496 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
497 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
498 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
499 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
502 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
503 -----------------------------
505 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
506 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
507 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
508 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
509 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
510 contrib/ from now on.
515 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
516 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
518 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
519 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
521 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
522 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
523 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
525 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
526 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
528 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
529 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
530 returning the new database object or directory object.
537 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
538 compatible with go 1.
540 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
541 =========================
543 Command-Line Interface
544 ----------------------
548 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
549 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
550 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
551 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
553 Mail store folder/file ignore
555 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
556 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
557 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
559 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
560 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
562 Unified help and manual pages
564 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
565 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
568 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
570 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
571 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
579 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
580 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
581 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
582 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
584 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
586 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
587 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
589 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
592 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
593 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
594 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
596 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
598 should be changed to:
600 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
602 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
604 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
605 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
607 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
609 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
610 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
611 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
612 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
613 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
614 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
618 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
619 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
620 of Mailing List Archives.
622 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
624 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
625 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
628 Show view archiving key binding changes
630 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
631 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
632 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
633 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
634 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
637 Support text/calendar MIME type
639 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
642 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
644 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
645 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
646 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
647 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
649 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
651 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
652 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
653 messages blue by default in the search view.
657 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
658 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
665 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
668 Python bindings changes
669 -----------------------
671 Python 3.2 compatibility
673 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
675 Added missing unicode conversions
677 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
678 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
679 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
684 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
686 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
687 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
688 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
689 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
690 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
692 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
693 ===========================
698 Fix error handling in python bindings
700 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
701 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
702 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
703 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
705 Quote MML tags in replies
707 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
708 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
709 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
710 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
711 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
712 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
713 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
714 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
716 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
717 =========================
719 Command-Line Interface
720 ----------------------
724 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
725 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
726 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
727 importing new messages into the database.
729 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
731 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
732 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
733 sometimes. This is now fixed.
738 Automatic tag query optimization
740 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
741 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
742 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
744 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
746 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
747 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
748 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
753 Reduction of memory leaks
755 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
756 and fixed in this release.
763 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
764 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
765 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
768 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
770 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
771 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
772 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
775 Improvements in saved search management
777 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
778 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
779 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
781 Hooks for notmuch-hello
783 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
784 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
785 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
787 New face for crypto parts headers
789 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
790 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
791 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
794 Use space as default thousands separator
796 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
797 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
798 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
800 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
803 New function notmuch-show-advance
805 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
806 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
807 be bound to SPC with:
809 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
811 Various performance improvements
816 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
817 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
820 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
821 ===========================
826 Fix crash in python bindings
828 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
829 for some, but not all users.
831 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
832 ===========================
837 Fix `--help` argument
839 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
840 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
841 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
843 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
844 =========================
846 New build and testing features
847 ------------------------------
849 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
850 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
851 prerequisites is improved.
853 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
855 New command-line features
856 -------------------------
858 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
860 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
861 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
864 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
866 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
867 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
868 favour of using stdout.
870 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
872 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
873 limit the number of results shown.
875 Add `notmuch count --output` option
877 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
878 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
881 New emacs UI features
882 ---------------------
884 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
886 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
887 starting with "tag:".
889 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
891 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
892 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
894 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
896 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
898 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
900 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
901 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
906 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
908 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
910 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
911 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
912 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
913 requires a database rebuild:
915 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
916 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
918 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
920 New collection of add-on tools
921 ------------------------------
923 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
924 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
925 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
928 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
930 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
931 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
932 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
934 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
935 ========================
937 New, general features
938 ---------------------
940 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
942 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
943 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
944 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
945 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
946 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
953 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
954 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
956 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
960 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
961 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
962 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
965 Python bindings changes
966 -----------------------
968 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
970 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
971 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
972 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
973 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
974 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
975 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
977 Ruby bindings changes
978 ---------------------
980 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
981 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
982 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
983 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
988 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
990 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
991 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
993 Reply formatting cleanup
994 ------------------------
996 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
997 MIME parts are being suppressed.
999 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1000 ========================
1002 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1004 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1005 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1006 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1007 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1010 Improved Build system portability
1012 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1013 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1014 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1016 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1018 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1020 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1022 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1023 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1024 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1026 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1027 ========================
1029 Vim interface improvements
1030 --------------------------
1032 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1034 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1035 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1036 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1037 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1038 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1040 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1042 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1043 * fix compose temp file name
1045 Python Bindings changes
1046 -----------------------
1048 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1050 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1051 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1053 Build-System improvements
1054 -------------------------
1056 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1058 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1061 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1062 ==========================
1067 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1069 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1070 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1072 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1073 =======================
1075 New, general features
1076 ---------------------
1078 Folder-based searching
1080 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1081 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1082 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1086 For example, one might use things such as:
1092 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1093 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1095 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1096 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1097 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1098 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1100 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1101 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1102 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1105 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1106 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1108 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1110 Support for PGP/MIME
1112 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1113 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1114 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1116 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1118 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1119 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1121 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1122 notmuch will receive these tags.
1124 New command-line features
1125 -------------------------
1127 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1129 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1130 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1132 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1134 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1135 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1136 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1138 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1140 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1141 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1142 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1143 which parts a signature part applies).
1145 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1147 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1148 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1149 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1150 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1151 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1154 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1156 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1157 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1158 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1159 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1160 by translating it internally to the new call.
1162 Performance improvements
1163 ------------------------
1165 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1167 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1168 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1169 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1171 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1172 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1174 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1176 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1177 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1178 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1180 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1181 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1182 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1183 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1185 Faster initial indexing
1187 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1188 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1189 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1191 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1193 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1194 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1195 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1196 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1198 New emacs-interface features
1199 ----------------------------
1201 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1203 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1204 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1205 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1206 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1207 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1208 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1210 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1212 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1213 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1214 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1215 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1217 User-selectable From address
1219 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1220 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1221 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1222 will prompt for the from address to use.
1224 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1225 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1226 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1228 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1229 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1230 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1233 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1235 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1236 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1238 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1240 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1242 ----- Original Message -----
1244 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1245 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1246 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1247 citations work much like conventional citations.
1249 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1251 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1252 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1253 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1254 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1255 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1257 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1258 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1260 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1262 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1263 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1264 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1266 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1268 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1269 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1270 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1271 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1272 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1274 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1276 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1279 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1281 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1283 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1285 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1288 Vim interface improvements
1289 --------------------------
1291 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1293 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1294 * Implementing archive in show view
1295 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1296 * Add delete commands
1299 Bindings improvements
1300 ---------------------
1302 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1304 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1305 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1307 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1309 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1313 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1314 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1315 `list(Messages)` works now
1316 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1318 These allow, for example:
1320 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1322 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1324 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1330 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1332 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1335 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1337 New build-system features
1338 -------------------------
1340 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1342 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1343 the configure script from some other directory:
1350 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1352 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1353 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1354 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1355 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1356 manual invocation of configure.
1358 New test-suite feature
1359 ----------------------
1361 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1363 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1364 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1365 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1366 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1367 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1370 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1372 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1373 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1374 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1375 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1376 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1377 are updated to take advantage of this.
1379 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1381 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1382 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1383 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1384 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1390 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1392 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1393 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1394 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1396 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1398 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1400 to:user@elsewhere.com
1402 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1404 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1406 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1408 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1409 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1410 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1413 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1414 from the Received headers in some cases
1416 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1417 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1419 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1421 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1423 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1425 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1426 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1427 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1429 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1430 -------------------------
1432 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1434 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1435 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1436 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1438 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1440 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1441 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1442 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1445 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1447 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1448 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1449 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1450 fixed to avoid this bug.
1452 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1454 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1455 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1457 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1458 ========================
1460 New, general features
1461 ---------------------
1463 Maildir-flag synchronization
1465 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1466 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1475 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1477 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1478 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1479 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1480 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1482 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1483 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1484 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1485 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1488 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1490 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1491 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1492 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1494 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1495 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1497 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1498 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1500 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1501 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1502 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1504 New library features
1505 --------------------
1507 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1509 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1510 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1511 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1512 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1514 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1515 message with the new function:
1517 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1519 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1520 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1521 over all available filenames for a given message.
1523 New command-line features
1524 -------------------------
1526 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1528 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1529 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1530 access to the mail store itself.
1532 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1533 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1534 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1535 name of a script containing:
1537 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1539 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1540 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1546 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1548 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1550 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1552 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1553 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1554 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1555 now produces nothing).
1557 Emacs interface improvements
1558 ----------------------------
1560 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1562 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1564 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1566 Display current thread subject in a header line
1568 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1570 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1572 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1573 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1574 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1575 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1576 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1577 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1578 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1580 Vim interface improvements
1581 --------------------------
1583 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1585 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1586 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1592 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1594 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1595 ========================
1597 New command-line features
1598 -------------------------
1600 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1602 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1603 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1604 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1606 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1607 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1608 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1609 scripts. For example:
1611 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1612 <operations-on> "$file"
1615 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1617 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1618 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1619 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1620 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1621 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1622 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1624 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1626 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1627 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1628 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1629 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1631 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1633 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1634 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1635 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1636 default rather than Bcc.
1638 New library features
1639 --------------------
1641 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1643 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1644 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1649 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1651 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1652 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1653 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1654 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1655 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1656 notmuch customize interface.
1658 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1660 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1661 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1662 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1663 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1665 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1667 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1668 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1669 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1670 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1672 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1674 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1675 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1676 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1677 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1678 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1679 notmuch customize interface.
1681 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1683 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1684 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1685 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1686 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1687 notmuch customize interface.
1689 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1691 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1692 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1693 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1694 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1697 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1699 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1700 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1701 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1704 New build-system features
1705 -------------------------
1707 Various portability fixes have been applied
1709 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1710 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1711 more portable than ever before.
1713 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1715 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1716 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1717 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1719 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1720 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1721 automatically run ldconfig.
1723 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1724 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1725 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1727 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1728 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1729 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1730 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1732 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1734 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1735 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1736 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1737 used in the resulting Makefile.
1739 New test-suite features
1740 -----------------------
1742 New modularization of test suite
1744 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1745 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1746 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1747 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1748 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1749 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1750 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1751 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1753 New testing of emacs interface
1755 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1756 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1757 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1758 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1759 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1760 database via the FCC setting.
1765 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1767 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1768 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1769 persistent error of the form:
1771 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1773 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1774 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1776 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1778 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1779 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1780 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1782 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1784 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1785 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1786 parsing the notmuch results).
1788 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1790 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1793 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1794 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1795 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1800 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1802 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1803 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1804 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1805 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1806 the emacs interface.
1808 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1810 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1811 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1812 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1814 Python-binding fixes
1815 --------------------
1817 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1819 Debian-specific fixes
1820 ---------------------
1822 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1824 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1825 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1826 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1829 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1830 ==========================
1835 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1837 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1838 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1839 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1840 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1842 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1844 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1845 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1846 want notmuch to crash.
1851 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1853 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1854 directory does not exist
1859 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1861 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1862 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1864 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1865 ========================
1867 New command-line features
1868 -------------------------
1870 User-configurable tags for new messages
1872 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1873 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1874 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1875 to specify this value.
1877 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1879 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1880 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1881 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1883 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1885 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1886 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1888 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1890 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1891 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1892 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1893 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1894 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1897 Indication of author names that match a search
1899 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1900 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1901 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1902 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1903 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1904 messages in the thread are listed first.
1906 New: Python bindings
1907 --------------------
1909 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1910 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1911 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1912 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1914 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1915 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1916 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1919 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1920 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1921 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1923 Emacs interface improvements
1924 ----------------------------
1926 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1928 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1929 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1930 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1931 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1932 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1933 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1934 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1935 but without any of the disadvantages).
1937 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1938 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1939 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1942 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1943 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1944 instead running something like:
1946 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1948 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1949 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1950 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1953 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1955 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1956 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1957 tweaked by the user.
1959 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1960 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1961 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1964 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1965 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1966 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1969 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1971 This support currently relies on an external program,
1972 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1973 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1974 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1975 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1976 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1979 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1980 notmuch) is available via:
1982 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1984 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1985 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1986 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1988 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1990 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1991 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1992 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1993 making this automatic in a future release.
1995 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1997 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1998 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1999 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2000 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2001 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2002 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2005 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2007 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2008 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2009 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2011 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2013 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2014 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2015 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2017 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2018 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2019 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2020 other representation.
2022 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2023 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2026 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2028 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2029 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2030 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2032 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2033 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2034 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2036 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2038 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2039 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2040 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2041 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2042 to display the search result.
2044 More flexible handling of header visibility
2046 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2047 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2048 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2049 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2050 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2051 with the 'h' keybinding.
2053 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2054 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2055 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2057 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2059 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2061 Customizable formatting of search results
2063 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2064 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2065 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2067 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2069 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2071 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2076 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2078 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2079 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2080 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2081 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2087 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2089 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2090 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2092 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2094 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2095 accept are now all accepted.
2100 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2102 Better display of output from failed tests
2104 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2105 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2107 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2108 ========================
2110 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2111 detailed release notes this time!
2113 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2114 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2116 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2117 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2118 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2119 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2126 Better guessing of From: header
2128 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2129 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2130 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2131 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2132 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2135 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2137 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2138 guaranteed to match all messages.
2140 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2142 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2143 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2144 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2145 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2146 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2149 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2152 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2153 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2154 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2155 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2160 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2162 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2163 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2164 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2165 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2167 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2169 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2171 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2172 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2173 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2175 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2177 Previously, the user might see:
2179 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2183 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2185 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2186 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2187 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2188 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2190 Emacs client features
2191 ---------------------
2193 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2195 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2196 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2197 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2198 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2199 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2201 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2204 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2205 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2206 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2207 search with the '*' binding.
2209 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2211 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2212 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2215 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2217 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2218 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2219 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2221 Build-system features
2222 ---------------------
2224 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2226 Add support to configure for many standard options
2228 We include actual support for:
2230 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2232 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2234 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2235 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2237 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2238 separate "make install-emacs"
2240 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2242 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2243 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2244 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2246 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2249 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2250 ========================
2252 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2254 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2255 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2257 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2258 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2259 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2260 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2261 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2262 tags from messages in a thread.
2269 indent-tabs-mode: nil