1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
9 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
10 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
11 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
12 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
13 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
14 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
17 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
19 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
20 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
21 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
22 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
25 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
27 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
28 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
29 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
30 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
31 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
32 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
33 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
38 Notmuch database upgrade
40 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
41 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
42 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
43 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
44 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
45 released version of Notmuch before now.
47 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
49 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
50 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
51 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
52 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
54 Message header parsing changes
56 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
57 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
58 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
59 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
60 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
61 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
63 Command-Line Interface
64 ----------------------
66 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
68 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
70 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
72 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
79 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
80 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
81 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
82 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
83 `~/.emacs` with these.
85 Changed format for saved searches
87 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
88 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
89 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
90 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
93 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
94 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
95 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
96 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
98 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
99 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
100 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
102 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
103 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
104 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
105 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
106 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
108 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
110 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
111 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
112 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
114 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
116 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
117 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
118 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
119 message had been unread).
121 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
122 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
123 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
124 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
126 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
127 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
128 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
130 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
131 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
132 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
133 to tags already present.
137 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
138 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
139 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
140 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
141 these differ from each other.
142 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
144 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
146 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
147 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
148 for these Emacs versions.
150 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
152 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
153 newlines before calling notmuch count.
155 Bug fixes for sender identities
157 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
158 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
159 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
161 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
163 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
164 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
165 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
166 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
171 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
172 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
174 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
175 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
176 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
177 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
179 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
180 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
181 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
182 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
183 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
185 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
187 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
188 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
190 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
191 =========================
193 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
194 ---------------------------------------
196 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
197 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
198 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
199 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
200 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
201 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
202 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
206 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
207 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
209 Command-Line Interface
210 ----------------------
212 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
214 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
215 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
216 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
217 print for each message.
219 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
220 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
221 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
222 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
224 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
226 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
227 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
228 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
230 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
232 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
233 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
234 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
235 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
237 `notmuch compact` command
239 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
240 functionality through a more convenient interface than
241 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
242 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
243 move the compacted database into place.
248 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
250 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
251 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
252 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
253 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
254 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
255 and multiple threads.
259 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
261 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
262 search, show and tree mode itself)
264 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
267 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
268 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
270 Customising `notmuch-tree`
272 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
273 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
274 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
275 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
276 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
277 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
278 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
280 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
282 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
283 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
284 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
285 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
286 thread when the search was performed.
288 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
290 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
291 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
292 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
294 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
296 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
297 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
300 Built-in help improvements
302 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
303 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
304 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
306 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
308 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
309 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
310 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
312 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
314 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
315 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
317 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
319 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
320 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
321 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
322 to move some of them to the common keymap.
324 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
326 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
327 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
328 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
329 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
331 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
333 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
334 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
335 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
337 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
339 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
340 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
341 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
343 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
345 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
346 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
347 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
348 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
349 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
351 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
353 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
354 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
355 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
356 the body part of the message.
361 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
362 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
363 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
365 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
366 =========================
368 Command-Line Interface
369 ----------------------
371 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
373 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
374 folder and notmuch index.
376 `notmuch count --batch` option
378 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
379 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
381 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
383 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
384 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
385 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
388 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
390 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
391 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
392 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
393 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
394 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
397 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
399 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
400 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
402 Top level option to specify configuration file
404 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
405 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
407 Bash command-line completion
409 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
410 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
411 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
412 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
413 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
414 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
415 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
416 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
417 bash-completion package.
419 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
424 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
426 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
427 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
428 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
429 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
430 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
431 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
432 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
433 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
435 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
437 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
438 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
439 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
441 Key bindings for next/previous thread
443 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
444 previous thread in the search results.
446 Better handling of errors in search buffers
448 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
449 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
451 Faster search and show
453 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
454 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
455 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
456 threads should show faster.
460 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
461 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
462 in question was now removed from this release.
467 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
468 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
473 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
475 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
476 ===========================
481 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
483 Internal test framework changes
484 -------------------------------
486 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
489 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
490 ===========================
492 Internal test framework changes
493 -------------------------------
495 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
496 build failures in non-interactive environments.
498 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
499 =========================
504 Date range search support
506 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
507 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
508 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
509 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
510 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
513 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
515 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
516 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
517 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
518 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
519 but may be removed in a future release.
521 Command-Line Interface
522 ----------------------
524 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
526 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
527 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
529 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
531 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
532 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
533 officially deprecated.
535 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
537 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
538 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
539 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
541 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
543 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
544 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
547 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
548 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
551 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
553 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
554 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
555 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
557 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
559 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
560 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
561 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
563 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
565 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
566 output separated by null characters rather than newline
567 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
568 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
573 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
575 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
576 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
577 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
578 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
580 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
582 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
583 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
584 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
585 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
586 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
587 the behavior of this, see
588 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
589 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
591 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
592 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
593 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
595 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
597 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
598 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
601 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
603 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
604 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
605 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
606 simply displayed in place of the message.
608 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
610 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
611 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
613 Improved text/calendar content handling
615 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
616 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
617 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
618 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
620 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
622 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
623 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
624 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
625 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
627 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
629 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
630 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
631 for HTML email containing images.
633 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
635 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
637 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
639 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
642 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
644 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
645 the point where it was.
647 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
649 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
650 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
651 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
652 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
653 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
655 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
657 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
658 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
659 thread instead of the message id.
661 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
662 -----------------------------
664 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
665 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
666 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
667 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
668 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
669 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
670 further details and installation.
675 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
677 Internal test framework changes
678 -------------------------------
680 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
682 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
683 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
684 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
685 can result in buggy behavior.
687 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
688 =========================
693 Maildir tag synchronization
695 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
696 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
697 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
698 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
699 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
700 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
703 Command-Line Interface
704 ----------------------
706 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
707 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
708 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
709 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
710 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
716 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
718 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
720 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
721 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
722 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
724 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
726 It is now possible to embed newlines in
727 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
730 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
732 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
733 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
734 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
735 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
736 inside the result or message.
738 Search now uses the JSON format internally
740 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
741 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
743 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
744 user-specified formatting
746 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
747 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
748 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
749 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
750 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
752 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
753 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
755 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
756 ===========================
761 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
762 compilation error for this contrib package.
764 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
765 ===========================
770 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
772 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
773 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
774 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
775 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
777 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
778 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
781 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
782 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
783 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
784 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
787 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
789 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
792 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
793 =========================
795 Command-Line Interface
796 ----------------------
800 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
801 for a reply message and full information about the original message
802 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
803 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
805 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
806 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
807 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
808 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
812 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
813 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
815 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
816 tag in your query, for example:
818 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
820 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
821 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
823 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
824 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
826 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
828 Raw show format changes
830 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
831 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
832 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
833 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
834 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
835 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
836 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
837 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
839 Listing configuration items
841 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
847 Changes to tagging interface
849 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
850 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
851 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
852 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
853 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
854 for more information.
856 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
857 may need to update in custom configurations.
859 Reply improvement using the JSON format
861 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
862 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
863 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
864 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
867 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
868 -----------------------------
870 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
871 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
872 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
873 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
874 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
875 contrib/ from now on.
880 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
881 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
883 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
884 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
886 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
887 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
888 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
890 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
891 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
893 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
894 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
895 returning the new database object or directory object.
902 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
903 compatible with go 1.
905 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
906 =========================
908 Command-Line Interface
909 ----------------------
913 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
914 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
915 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
916 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
918 Mail store folder/file ignore
920 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
921 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
922 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
924 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
925 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
927 Unified help and manual pages
929 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
930 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
933 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
935 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
936 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
944 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
945 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
946 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
947 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
949 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
951 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
952 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
954 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
957 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
958 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
959 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
961 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
963 should be changed to:
965 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
967 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
969 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
970 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
972 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
974 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
975 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
976 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
977 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
978 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
979 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
983 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
984 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
985 of Mailing List Archives.
987 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
989 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
990 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
993 Show view archiving key binding changes
995 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
996 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
997 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
998 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
999 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1002 Support text/calendar MIME type
1004 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1007 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1009 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1010 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1011 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1012 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1014 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1016 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1017 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1018 messages blue by default in the search view.
1022 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1023 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1030 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1033 Python bindings changes
1034 -----------------------
1036 Python 3.2 compatibility
1038 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1040 Added missing unicode conversions
1042 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1043 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1044 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1049 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1051 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1052 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1053 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1054 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1055 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1057 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1058 ===========================
1063 Fix error handling in python bindings
1065 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1066 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1067 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1068 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1070 Quote MML tags in replies
1072 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1073 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1074 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1075 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1076 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1077 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1078 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1079 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1081 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1082 =========================
1084 Command-Line Interface
1085 ----------------------
1089 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1090 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1091 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1092 importing new messages into the database.
1094 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1096 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1097 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1098 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1103 Automatic tag query optimization
1105 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1106 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1107 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1109 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1111 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1112 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1113 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1118 Reduction of memory leaks
1120 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1121 and fixed in this release.
1128 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1129 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1130 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1133 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1135 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1136 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1137 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1140 Improvements in saved search management
1142 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1143 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1144 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1146 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1148 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1149 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1150 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1152 New face for crypto parts headers
1154 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1155 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1156 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1159 Use space as default thousands separator
1161 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1162 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1163 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1165 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1166 buttonized id: links
1168 New function notmuch-show-advance
1170 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1171 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1172 be bound to SPC with:
1174 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1176 Various performance improvements
1181 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1182 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1185 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1186 ===========================
1191 Fix crash in python bindings
1193 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1194 for some, but not all users.
1196 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1197 ===========================
1202 Fix `--help` argument
1204 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1205 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1206 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1208 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1209 =========================
1211 New build and testing features
1212 ------------------------------
1214 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1215 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1216 prerequisites is improved.
1218 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1220 New command-line features
1221 -------------------------
1223 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1225 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1226 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1229 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1231 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1232 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1233 favour of using stdout.
1235 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1237 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1238 limit the number of results shown.
1240 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1242 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1243 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1246 New emacs UI features
1247 ---------------------
1249 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1251 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1252 starting with "tag:".
1254 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1256 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1257 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1259 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1261 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1263 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1265 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1266 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1271 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1273 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1275 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1276 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1277 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1278 requires a database rebuild:
1280 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1281 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1283 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1285 New collection of add-on tools
1286 ------------------------------
1288 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1289 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1290 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1293 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1295 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1296 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1297 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1299 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1300 ========================
1302 New, general features
1303 ---------------------
1305 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1307 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1308 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1309 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1310 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1311 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1318 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1319 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1321 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1325 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1326 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1327 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1330 Python bindings changes
1331 -----------------------
1333 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1335 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1336 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1337 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1338 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1339 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1340 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1342 Ruby bindings changes
1343 ---------------------
1345 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1346 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1347 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1348 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1353 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1355 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1356 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1358 Reply formatting cleanup
1359 ------------------------
1361 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1362 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1364 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1365 ========================
1367 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1369 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1370 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1371 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1372 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1375 Improved Build system portability
1377 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1378 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1379 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1381 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1383 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1385 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1387 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1388 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1389 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1391 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1392 ========================
1394 Vim interface improvements
1395 --------------------------
1397 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1399 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1400 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1401 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1402 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1403 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1405 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1407 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1408 * fix compose temp file name
1410 Python Bindings changes
1411 -----------------------
1413 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1415 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1416 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1418 Build-System improvements
1419 -------------------------
1421 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1423 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1426 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1427 ==========================
1432 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1434 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1435 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1437 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1438 =======================
1440 New, general features
1441 ---------------------
1443 Folder-based searching
1445 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1446 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1447 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1451 For example, one might use things such as:
1457 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1458 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1460 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1461 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1462 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1463 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1465 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1466 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1467 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1470 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1471 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1473 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1475 Support for PGP/MIME
1477 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1478 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1479 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1481 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1483 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1484 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1486 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1487 notmuch will receive these tags.
1489 New command-line features
1490 -------------------------
1492 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1494 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1495 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1497 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1499 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1500 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1501 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1503 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1505 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1506 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1507 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1508 which parts a signature part applies).
1510 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1512 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1513 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1514 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1515 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1516 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1519 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1521 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1522 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1523 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1524 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1525 by translating it internally to the new call.
1527 Performance improvements
1528 ------------------------
1530 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1532 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1533 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1534 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1536 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1537 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1539 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1541 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1542 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1543 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1545 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1546 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1547 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1548 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1550 Faster initial indexing
1552 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1553 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1554 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1556 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1558 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1559 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1560 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1561 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1563 New emacs-interface features
1564 ----------------------------
1566 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1568 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1569 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1570 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1571 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1572 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1573 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1575 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1577 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1578 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1579 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1580 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1582 User-selectable From address
1584 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1585 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1586 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1587 will prompt for the from address to use.
1589 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1590 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1591 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1593 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1594 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1595 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1598 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1600 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1601 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1603 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1605 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1607 ----- Original Message -----
1609 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1610 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1611 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1612 citations work much like conventional citations.
1614 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1616 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1617 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1618 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1619 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1620 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1622 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1623 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1625 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1627 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1628 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1629 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1631 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1633 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1634 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1635 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1636 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1637 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1639 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1641 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1644 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1646 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1648 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1650 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1653 Vim interface improvements
1654 --------------------------
1656 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1658 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1659 * Implementing archive in show view
1660 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1661 * Add delete commands
1664 Bindings improvements
1665 ---------------------
1667 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1669 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1670 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1672 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1674 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1678 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1679 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1680 `list(Messages)` works now
1681 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1683 These allow, for example:
1685 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1687 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1689 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1695 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1697 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1700 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1702 New build-system features
1703 -------------------------
1705 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1707 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1708 the configure script from some other directory:
1715 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1717 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1718 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1719 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1720 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1721 manual invocation of configure.
1723 New test-suite feature
1724 ----------------------
1726 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1728 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1729 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1730 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1731 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1732 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1735 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1737 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1738 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1739 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1740 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1741 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1742 are updated to take advantage of this.
1744 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1746 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1747 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1748 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1749 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1755 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1757 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1758 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1759 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1761 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1763 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1765 to:user@elsewhere.com
1767 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1769 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1771 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1773 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1774 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1775 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1778 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1779 from the Received headers in some cases
1781 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1782 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1784 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1786 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1788 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1790 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1791 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1792 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1794 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1795 -------------------------
1797 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1799 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1800 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1801 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1803 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1805 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1806 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1807 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1810 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1812 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1813 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1814 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1815 fixed to avoid this bug.
1817 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1819 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1820 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1822 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1823 ========================
1825 New, general features
1826 ---------------------
1828 Maildir-flag synchronization
1830 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1831 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1840 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1842 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1843 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1844 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1845 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1847 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1848 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1849 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1850 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1853 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1855 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1856 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1857 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1859 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1860 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1862 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1863 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1865 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1866 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1867 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1869 New library features
1870 --------------------
1872 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1874 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1875 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1876 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1877 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1879 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1880 message with the new function:
1882 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1884 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1885 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1886 over all available filenames for a given message.
1888 New command-line features
1889 -------------------------
1891 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1893 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1894 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1895 access to the mail store itself.
1897 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1898 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1899 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1900 name of a script containing:
1902 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1904 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1905 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1911 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1913 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1915 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1917 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1918 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1919 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1920 now produces nothing).
1922 Emacs interface improvements
1923 ----------------------------
1925 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1927 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1929 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1931 Display current thread subject in a header line
1933 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1935 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1937 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1938 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1939 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1940 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1941 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1942 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1943 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1945 Vim interface improvements
1946 --------------------------
1948 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1950 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1951 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1957 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1959 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1960 ========================
1962 New command-line features
1963 -------------------------
1965 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1967 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1968 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1969 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1971 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1972 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1973 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1974 scripts. For example:
1976 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1977 <operations-on> "$file"
1980 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1982 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1983 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1984 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1985 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1986 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1987 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1989 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1991 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1992 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1993 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1994 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1996 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1998 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1999 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2000 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2001 default rather than Bcc.
2003 New library features
2004 --------------------
2006 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2008 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2009 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2014 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2016 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2017 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2018 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2019 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2020 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2021 notmuch customize interface.
2023 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2025 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2026 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2027 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2028 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2030 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2032 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2033 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2034 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2035 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2037 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2039 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2040 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2041 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2042 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2043 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2044 notmuch customize interface.
2046 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2048 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2049 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2050 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2051 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2052 notmuch customize interface.
2054 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2056 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2057 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2058 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2059 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2062 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2064 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2065 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2066 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2069 New build-system features
2070 -------------------------
2072 Various portability fixes have been applied
2074 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2075 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2076 more portable than ever before.
2078 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2080 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2081 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2082 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2084 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2085 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2086 automatically run ldconfig.
2088 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2089 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2090 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2092 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2093 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2094 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2095 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2097 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2099 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2100 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2101 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2102 used in the resulting Makefile.
2104 New test-suite features
2105 -----------------------
2107 New modularization of test suite
2109 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2110 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2111 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2112 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2113 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2114 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2115 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2116 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2118 New testing of emacs interface
2120 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2121 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2122 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2123 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2124 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2125 database via the FCC setting.
2130 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2132 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2133 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2134 persistent error of the form:
2136 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2138 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2139 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2141 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2143 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2144 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2145 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2147 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2149 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2150 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2151 parsing the notmuch results).
2153 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2155 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2158 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2159 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2160 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2165 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2167 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2168 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2169 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2170 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2171 the emacs interface.
2173 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2175 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2176 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2177 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2179 Python-binding fixes
2180 --------------------
2182 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2184 Debian-specific fixes
2185 ---------------------
2187 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2189 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2190 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2191 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2194 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2195 ==========================
2200 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2202 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2203 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2204 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2205 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2207 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2209 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2210 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2211 want notmuch to crash.
2216 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2218 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2219 directory does not exist
2224 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2226 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2227 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2229 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2230 ========================
2232 New command-line features
2233 -------------------------
2235 User-configurable tags for new messages
2237 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2238 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2239 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2240 to specify this value.
2242 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2244 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2245 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2246 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2248 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2250 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2251 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2253 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2255 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2256 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2257 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2258 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2259 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2262 Indication of author names that match a search
2264 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2265 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2266 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2267 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2268 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2269 messages in the thread are listed first.
2271 New: Python bindings
2272 --------------------
2274 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2275 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2276 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2277 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2279 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2280 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2281 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2284 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2285 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2286 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2288 Emacs interface improvements
2289 ----------------------------
2291 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2293 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2294 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2295 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2296 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2297 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2298 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2299 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2300 but without any of the disadvantages).
2302 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2303 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2304 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2307 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2308 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2309 instead running something like:
2311 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2313 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2314 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2315 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2318 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2320 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2321 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2322 tweaked by the user.
2324 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2325 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2326 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2329 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2330 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2331 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2334 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2336 This support currently relies on an external program,
2337 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2338 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2339 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2340 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2341 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2344 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2345 notmuch) is available via:
2347 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2349 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2350 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2351 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2353 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2355 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2356 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2357 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2358 making this automatic in a future release.
2360 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2362 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2363 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2364 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2365 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2366 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2367 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2370 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2372 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2373 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2374 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2376 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2378 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2379 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2380 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2382 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2383 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2384 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2385 other representation.
2387 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2388 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2391 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2393 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2394 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2395 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2397 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2398 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2399 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2401 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2403 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2404 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2405 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2406 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2407 to display the search result.
2409 More flexible handling of header visibility
2411 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2412 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2413 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2414 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2415 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2416 with the 'h' keybinding.
2418 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2419 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2420 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2422 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2424 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2426 Customizable formatting of search results
2428 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2429 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2430 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2432 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2434 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2436 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2441 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2443 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2444 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2445 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2446 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2452 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2454 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2455 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2457 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2459 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2460 accept are now all accepted.
2465 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2467 Better display of output from failed tests
2469 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2470 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2472 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2473 ========================
2475 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2476 detailed release notes this time!
2478 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2479 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2481 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2482 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2483 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2484 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2491 Better guessing of From: header
2493 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2494 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2495 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2496 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2497 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2500 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2502 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2503 guaranteed to match all messages.
2505 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2507 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2508 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2509 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2510 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2511 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2514 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2517 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2518 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2519 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2520 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2525 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2527 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2528 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2529 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2530 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2532 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2534 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2536 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2537 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2538 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2540 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2542 Previously, the user might see:
2544 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2548 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2550 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2551 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2552 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2553 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2555 Emacs client features
2556 ---------------------
2558 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2560 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2561 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2562 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2563 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2564 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2566 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2569 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2570 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2571 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2572 search with the '*' binding.
2574 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2576 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2577 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2580 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2582 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2583 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2584 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2586 Build-system features
2587 ---------------------
2589 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2591 Add support to configure for many standard options
2593 We include actual support for:
2595 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2597 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2599 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2600 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2602 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2603 separate "make install-emacs"
2605 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2607 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2608 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2609 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2611 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2614 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2615 ========================
2617 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2619 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2620 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2622 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2623 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2624 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2625 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2626 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2627 tags from messages in a thread.
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