2 Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED)
3 =========================
8 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
10 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
11 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
12 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
13 print for each message.
15 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
16 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
17 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
18 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
20 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
22 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
23 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
24 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
26 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
28 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
29 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
30 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
31 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
36 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
38 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
39 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
40 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
41 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
42 thread when the search was performed.
44 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
46 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
47 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
48 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
50 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
52 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
53 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
56 Built-in help improvements
58 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
59 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
60 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
62 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
64 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
65 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
67 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
69 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
70 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
71 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
72 to move some of them to the common keymap.
74 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
76 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
77 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
78 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
79 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
81 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
82 =========================
84 Command-Line Interface
85 ----------------------
87 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
89 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
90 folder and notmuch index.
92 `notmuch count --batch` option
94 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
95 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
97 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
99 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
100 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
101 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
104 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
106 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
107 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
108 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
109 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
110 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
113 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
115 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
116 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
118 Top level option to specify configuration file
120 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
121 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
123 Bash command-line completion
125 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
126 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
127 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
128 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
129 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
130 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
131 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
132 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
133 bash-completion package.
135 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
140 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
142 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
143 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
144 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
145 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
146 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
147 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
148 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
149 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
151 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
153 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
154 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
155 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
157 Key bindings for next/previous thread
159 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
160 previous thread in the search results.
162 Better handling of errors in search buffers
164 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
165 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
167 Faster search and show
169 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
170 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
171 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
172 threads should show faster.
176 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
177 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
178 in question was now removed from this release.
183 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
184 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
189 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
191 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
192 ===========================
197 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
199 Internal test framework changes
200 -------------------------------
202 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
205 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
206 ===========================
208 Internal test framework changes
209 -------------------------------
211 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
212 build failures in non-interactive environments.
214 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
215 =========================
220 Date range search support
222 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
223 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
224 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
225 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
226 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
229 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
231 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
232 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
233 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
234 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
235 but may be removed in a future release.
237 Command-Line Interface
238 ----------------------
240 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
242 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
243 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
245 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
247 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
248 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
249 officially deprecated.
251 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
253 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
254 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
255 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
257 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
259 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
260 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
263 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
264 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
267 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
269 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
270 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
271 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
273 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
275 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
276 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
277 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
279 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
281 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
282 output separated by null characters rather than newline
283 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
284 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
289 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
291 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
292 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
293 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
294 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
296 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
298 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
299 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
300 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
301 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
302 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
303 the behavior of this, see
304 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
305 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
307 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
308 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
309 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
311 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
313 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
314 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
317 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
319 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
320 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
321 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
322 simply displayed in place of the message.
324 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
326 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
327 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
329 Improved text/calendar content handling
331 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
332 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
333 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
334 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
336 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
338 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
339 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
340 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
341 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
343 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
345 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
346 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
347 for HTML email containing images.
349 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
351 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
353 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
355 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
358 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
360 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
361 the point where it was.
363 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
365 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
366 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
367 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
368 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
369 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
371 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
373 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
374 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
375 thread instead of the message id.
377 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
378 -----------------------------
380 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
381 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
382 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
383 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
384 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
385 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
386 further details and installation.
391 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
393 Internal test framework changes
394 -------------------------------
396 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
398 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
399 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
400 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
401 can result in buggy behavior.
403 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
404 =========================
409 Maildir tag synchronization
411 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
412 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
413 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
414 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
415 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
416 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
419 Command-Line Interface
420 ----------------------
422 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
423 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
424 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
425 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
426 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
432 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
434 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
436 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
437 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
438 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
440 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
442 It is now possible to embed newlines in
443 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
446 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
448 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
449 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
450 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
451 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
452 inside the result or message.
454 Search now uses the JSON format internally
456 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
457 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
459 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
460 user-specified formatting
462 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
463 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
464 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
465 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
466 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
468 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
469 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
471 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
472 ===========================
477 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
478 compilation error for this contrib package.
480 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
481 ===========================
486 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
488 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
489 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
490 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
491 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
493 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
494 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
497 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
498 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
499 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
500 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
503 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
505 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
508 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
509 =========================
511 Command-Line Interface
512 ----------------------
516 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
517 for a reply message and full information about the original message
518 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
519 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
521 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
522 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
523 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
524 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
528 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
529 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
531 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
532 tag in your query, for example:
534 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
536 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
537 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
539 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
540 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
542 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
544 Raw show format changes
546 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
547 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
548 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
549 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
550 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
551 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
552 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
553 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
555 Listing configuration items
557 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
563 Changes to tagging interface
565 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
566 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
567 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
568 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
569 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
570 for more information.
572 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
573 may need to update in custom configurations.
575 Reply improvement using the JSON format
577 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
578 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
579 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
580 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
583 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
584 -----------------------------
586 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
587 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
588 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
589 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
590 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
591 contrib/ from now on.
596 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
597 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
599 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
600 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
602 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
603 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
604 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
606 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
607 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
609 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
610 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
611 returning the new database object or directory object.
618 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
619 compatible with go 1.
621 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
622 =========================
624 Command-Line Interface
625 ----------------------
629 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
630 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
631 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
632 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
634 Mail store folder/file ignore
636 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
637 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
638 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
640 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
641 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
643 Unified help and manual pages
645 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
646 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
649 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
651 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
652 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
660 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
661 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
662 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
663 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
665 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
667 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
668 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
670 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
673 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
674 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
675 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
677 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
679 should be changed to:
681 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
683 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
685 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
686 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
688 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
690 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
691 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
692 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
693 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
694 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
695 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
699 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
700 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
701 of Mailing List Archives.
703 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
705 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
706 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
709 Show view archiving key binding changes
711 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
712 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
713 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
714 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
715 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
718 Support text/calendar MIME type
720 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
723 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
725 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
726 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
727 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
728 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
730 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
732 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
733 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
734 messages blue by default in the search view.
738 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
739 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
746 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
749 Python bindings changes
750 -----------------------
752 Python 3.2 compatibility
754 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
756 Added missing unicode conversions
758 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
759 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
760 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
765 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
767 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
768 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
769 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
770 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
771 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
773 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
774 ===========================
779 Fix error handling in python bindings
781 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
782 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
783 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
784 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
786 Quote MML tags in replies
788 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
789 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
790 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
791 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
792 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
793 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
794 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
795 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
797 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
798 =========================
800 Command-Line Interface
801 ----------------------
805 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
806 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
807 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
808 importing new messages into the database.
810 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
812 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
813 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
814 sometimes. This is now fixed.
819 Automatic tag query optimization
821 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
822 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
823 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
825 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
827 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
828 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
829 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
834 Reduction of memory leaks
836 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
837 and fixed in this release.
844 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
845 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
846 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
849 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
851 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
852 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
853 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
856 Improvements in saved search management
858 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
859 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
860 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
862 Hooks for notmuch-hello
864 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
865 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
866 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
868 New face for crypto parts headers
870 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
871 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
872 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
875 Use space as default thousands separator
877 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
878 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
879 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
881 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
884 New function notmuch-show-advance
886 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
887 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
888 be bound to SPC with:
890 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
892 Various performance improvements
897 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
898 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
901 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
902 ===========================
907 Fix crash in python bindings
909 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
910 for some, but not all users.
912 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
913 ===========================
918 Fix `--help` argument
920 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
921 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
922 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
924 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
925 =========================
927 New build and testing features
928 ------------------------------
930 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
931 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
932 prerequisites is improved.
934 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
936 New command-line features
937 -------------------------
939 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
941 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
942 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
945 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
947 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
948 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
949 favour of using stdout.
951 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
953 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
954 limit the number of results shown.
956 Add `notmuch count --output` option
958 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
959 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
962 New emacs UI features
963 ---------------------
965 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
967 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
968 starting with "tag:".
970 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
972 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
973 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
975 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
977 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
979 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
981 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
982 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
987 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
989 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
991 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
992 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
993 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
994 requires a database rebuild:
996 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
997 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
999 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1001 New collection of add-on tools
1002 ------------------------------
1004 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1005 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1006 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1009 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1011 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1012 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1013 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1015 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1016 ========================
1018 New, general features
1019 ---------------------
1021 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1023 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1024 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1025 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1026 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1027 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1034 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1035 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1037 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1041 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1042 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1043 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1046 Python bindings changes
1047 -----------------------
1049 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1051 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1052 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1053 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1054 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1055 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1056 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1058 Ruby bindings changes
1059 ---------------------
1061 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1062 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1063 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1064 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1069 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1071 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1072 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1074 Reply formatting cleanup
1075 ------------------------
1077 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1078 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1080 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1081 ========================
1083 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1085 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1086 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1087 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1088 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1091 Improved Build system portability
1093 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1094 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1095 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1097 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1099 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1101 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1103 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1104 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1105 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1107 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1108 ========================
1110 Vim interface improvements
1111 --------------------------
1113 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1115 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1116 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1117 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1118 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1119 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1121 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1123 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1124 * fix compose temp file name
1126 Python Bindings changes
1127 -----------------------
1129 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1131 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1132 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1134 Build-System improvements
1135 -------------------------
1137 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1139 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1142 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1143 ==========================
1148 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1150 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1151 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1153 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1154 =======================
1156 New, general features
1157 ---------------------
1159 Folder-based searching
1161 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1162 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1163 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1167 For example, one might use things such as:
1173 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1174 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1176 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1177 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1178 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1179 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1181 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1182 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1183 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1186 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1187 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1189 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1191 Support for PGP/MIME
1193 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1194 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1195 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1197 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1199 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1200 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1202 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1203 notmuch will receive these tags.
1205 New command-line features
1206 -------------------------
1208 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1210 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1211 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1213 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1215 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1216 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1217 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1219 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1221 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1222 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1223 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1224 which parts a signature part applies).
1226 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1228 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1229 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1230 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1231 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1232 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1235 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1237 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1238 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1239 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1240 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1241 by translating it internally to the new call.
1243 Performance improvements
1244 ------------------------
1246 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1248 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1249 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1250 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1252 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1253 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1255 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1257 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1258 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1259 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1261 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1262 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1263 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1264 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1266 Faster initial indexing
1268 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1269 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1270 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1272 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1274 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1275 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1276 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1277 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1279 New emacs-interface features
1280 ----------------------------
1282 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1284 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1285 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1286 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1287 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1288 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1289 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1291 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1293 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1294 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1295 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1296 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1298 User-selectable From address
1300 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1301 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1302 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1303 will prompt for the from address to use.
1305 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1306 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1307 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1309 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1310 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1311 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1314 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1316 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1317 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1319 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1321 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1323 ----- Original Message -----
1325 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1326 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1327 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1328 citations work much like conventional citations.
1330 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1332 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1333 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1334 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1335 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1336 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1338 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1339 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1341 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1343 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1344 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1345 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1347 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1349 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1350 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1351 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1352 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1353 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1355 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1357 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1360 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1362 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1364 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1366 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1369 Vim interface improvements
1370 --------------------------
1372 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1374 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1375 * Implementing archive in show view
1376 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1377 * Add delete commands
1380 Bindings improvements
1381 ---------------------
1383 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1385 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1386 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1388 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1390 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1394 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1395 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1396 `list(Messages)` works now
1397 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1399 These allow, for example:
1401 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1403 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1405 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1411 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1413 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1416 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1418 New build-system features
1419 -------------------------
1421 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1423 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1424 the configure script from some other directory:
1431 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1433 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1434 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1435 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1436 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1437 manual invocation of configure.
1439 New test-suite feature
1440 ----------------------
1442 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1444 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1445 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1446 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1447 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1448 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1451 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1453 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1454 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1455 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1456 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1457 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1458 are updated to take advantage of this.
1460 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1462 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1463 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1464 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1465 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1471 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1473 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1474 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1475 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1477 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1479 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1481 to:user@elsewhere.com
1483 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1485 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1487 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1489 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1490 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1491 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1494 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1495 from the Received headers in some cases
1497 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1498 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1500 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1502 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1504 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1506 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1507 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1508 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1510 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1511 -------------------------
1513 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1515 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1516 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1517 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1519 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1521 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1522 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1523 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1526 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1528 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1529 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1530 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1531 fixed to avoid this bug.
1533 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1535 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1536 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1538 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1539 ========================
1541 New, general features
1542 ---------------------
1544 Maildir-flag synchronization
1546 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1547 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1556 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1558 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1559 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1560 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1561 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1563 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1564 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1565 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1566 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1569 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1571 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1572 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1573 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1575 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1576 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1578 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1579 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1581 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1582 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1583 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1585 New library features
1586 --------------------
1588 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1590 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1591 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1592 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1593 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1595 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1596 message with the new function:
1598 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1600 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1601 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1602 over all available filenames for a given message.
1604 New command-line features
1605 -------------------------
1607 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1609 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1610 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1611 access to the mail store itself.
1613 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1614 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1615 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1616 name of a script containing:
1618 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1620 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1621 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1627 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1629 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1631 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1633 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1634 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1635 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1636 now produces nothing).
1638 Emacs interface improvements
1639 ----------------------------
1641 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1643 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1645 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1647 Display current thread subject in a header line
1649 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1651 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1653 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1654 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1655 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1656 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1657 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1658 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1659 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1661 Vim interface improvements
1662 --------------------------
1664 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1666 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1667 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1673 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1675 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1676 ========================
1678 New command-line features
1679 -------------------------
1681 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1683 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1684 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1685 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1687 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1688 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1689 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1690 scripts. For example:
1692 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1693 <operations-on> "$file"
1696 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1698 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1699 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1700 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1701 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1702 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1703 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1705 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1707 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1708 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1709 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1710 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1712 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1714 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1715 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1716 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1717 default rather than Bcc.
1719 New library features
1720 --------------------
1722 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1724 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1725 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1730 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1732 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1733 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1734 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1735 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1736 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1737 notmuch customize interface.
1739 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1741 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1742 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1743 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1744 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1746 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1748 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1749 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1750 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1751 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1753 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1755 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1756 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1757 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1758 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1759 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1760 notmuch customize interface.
1762 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1764 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1765 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1766 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1767 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1768 notmuch customize interface.
1770 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1772 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1773 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1774 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1775 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1778 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1780 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1781 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1782 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1785 New build-system features
1786 -------------------------
1788 Various portability fixes have been applied
1790 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1791 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1792 more portable than ever before.
1794 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1796 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1797 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1798 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1800 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1801 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1802 automatically run ldconfig.
1804 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1805 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1806 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1808 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1809 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1810 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1811 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1813 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1815 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1816 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1817 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1818 used in the resulting Makefile.
1820 New test-suite features
1821 -----------------------
1823 New modularization of test suite
1825 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1826 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1827 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1828 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1829 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1830 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1831 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1832 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1834 New testing of emacs interface
1836 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1837 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1838 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1839 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1840 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1841 database via the FCC setting.
1846 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1848 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1849 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1850 persistent error of the form:
1852 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1854 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1855 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1857 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1859 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1860 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1861 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1863 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1865 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1866 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1867 parsing the notmuch results).
1869 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1871 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1874 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1875 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1876 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1881 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1883 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1884 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1885 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1886 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1887 the emacs interface.
1889 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1891 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1892 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1893 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1895 Python-binding fixes
1896 --------------------
1898 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1900 Debian-specific fixes
1901 ---------------------
1903 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1905 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1906 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1907 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1910 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1911 ==========================
1916 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1918 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1919 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1920 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1921 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1923 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1925 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1926 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1927 want notmuch to crash.
1932 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1934 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1935 directory does not exist
1940 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1942 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1943 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1945 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1946 ========================
1948 New command-line features
1949 -------------------------
1951 User-configurable tags for new messages
1953 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1954 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1955 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1956 to specify this value.
1958 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1960 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1961 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1962 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1964 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1966 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1967 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1969 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1971 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1972 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1973 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1974 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1975 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1978 Indication of author names that match a search
1980 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1981 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1982 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1983 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1984 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1985 messages in the thread are listed first.
1987 New: Python bindings
1988 --------------------
1990 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1991 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1992 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1993 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1995 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1996 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1997 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2000 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2001 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2002 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2004 Emacs interface improvements
2005 ----------------------------
2007 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2009 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2010 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2011 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2012 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2013 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2014 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2015 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2016 but without any of the disadvantages).
2018 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2019 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2020 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2023 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2024 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2025 instead running something like:
2027 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2029 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2030 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2031 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2034 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2036 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2037 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2038 tweaked by the user.
2040 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2041 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2042 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2045 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2046 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2047 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2050 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2052 This support currently relies on an external program,
2053 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2054 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2055 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2056 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2057 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2060 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2061 notmuch) is available via:
2063 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2065 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2066 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2067 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2069 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2071 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2072 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2073 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2074 making this automatic in a future release.
2076 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2078 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2079 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2080 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2081 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2082 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2083 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2086 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2088 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2089 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2090 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2092 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2094 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2095 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2096 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2098 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2099 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2100 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2101 other representation.
2103 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2104 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2107 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2109 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2110 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2111 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2113 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2114 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2115 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2117 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2119 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2120 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2121 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2122 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2123 to display the search result.
2125 More flexible handling of header visibility
2127 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2128 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2129 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2130 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2131 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2132 with the 'h' keybinding.
2134 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2135 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2136 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2138 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2140 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2142 Customizable formatting of search results
2144 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2145 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2146 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2148 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2150 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2152 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2157 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2159 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2160 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2161 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2162 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2168 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2170 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2171 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2173 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2175 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2176 accept are now all accepted.
2181 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2183 Better display of output from failed tests
2185 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2186 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2188 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2189 ========================
2191 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2192 detailed release notes this time!
2194 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2195 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2197 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2198 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2199 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2200 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2207 Better guessing of From: header
2209 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2210 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2211 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2212 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2213 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2216 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2218 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2219 guaranteed to match all messages.
2221 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2223 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2224 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2225 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2226 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2227 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2230 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2233 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2234 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2235 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2236 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2241 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2243 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2244 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2245 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2246 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2248 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2250 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2252 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2253 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2254 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2256 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2258 Previously, the user might see:
2260 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2264 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2266 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2267 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2268 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2269 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2271 Emacs client features
2272 ---------------------
2274 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2276 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2277 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2278 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2279 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2280 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2282 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2285 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2286 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2287 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2288 search with the '*' binding.
2290 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2292 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2293 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2296 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2298 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2299 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2300 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2302 Build-system features
2303 ---------------------
2305 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2307 Add support to configure for many standard options
2309 We include actual support for:
2311 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2313 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2315 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2316 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2318 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2319 separate "make install-emacs"
2321 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2323 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2324 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2325 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2327 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2330 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2331 ========================
2333 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2335 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2336 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2338 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2339 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2340 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2341 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2342 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2343 tags from messages in a thread.
2350 indent-tabs-mode: nil