1 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2 ===========================
7 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
9 Internal test framework changes
10 -------------------------------
12 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
15 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
16 =========================
18 Internal test framework changes
19 -------------------------------
21 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
22 build failures in non-interactive environments.
24 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
25 =========================
30 Date range search support
32 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
33 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
34 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
35 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
36 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
39 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
41 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
42 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
43 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
44 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
45 but may be removed in a future release.
47 Command-Line Interface
48 ----------------------
50 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
52 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
53 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
55 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
57 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
58 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
59 officially deprecated.
61 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
63 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
64 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
65 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
67 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
69 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
70 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
73 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
74 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
77 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
79 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
80 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
81 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
83 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
85 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
86 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
87 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
89 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
91 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
92 output separated by null characters rather than newline
93 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
94 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
99 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
101 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
102 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
103 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
104 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
106 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
108 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
109 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
110 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
111 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
112 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
113 the behavior of this, see
114 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
115 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
117 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
118 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
119 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
121 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
123 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
124 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
127 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
129 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
130 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
131 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
132 simply displayed in place of the message.
134 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
136 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
137 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
139 Improved text/calendar content handling
141 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
142 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
143 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
144 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
146 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
148 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
149 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
150 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
151 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
153 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
155 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
156 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
157 for HTML email containing images.
159 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
161 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
163 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
165 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
168 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
170 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
171 the point where it was.
173 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
175 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
176 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
177 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
178 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
179 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
181 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
183 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
184 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
185 thread instead of the message id.
187 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
188 -----------------------------
190 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
191 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
192 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
193 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
194 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
195 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
196 further details and installation.
201 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
203 Internal test framework changes
204 -------------------------------
206 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
208 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
209 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
210 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
211 can result in buggy behavior.
213 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
214 =========================
219 Maildir tag synchronization
221 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
222 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
223 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
224 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
225 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
226 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
229 Command-Line Interface
230 ----------------------
232 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
233 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
234 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
235 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
236 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
242 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
244 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
246 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
247 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
248 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
250 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
252 It is now possible to embed newlines in
253 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
256 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
258 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
259 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
260 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
261 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
262 inside the result or message.
264 Search now uses the JSON format internally
266 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
267 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
269 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
270 user-specified formatting
272 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
273 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
274 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
275 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
276 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
278 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
279 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
281 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
282 ===========================
287 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
288 compilation error for this contrib package.
290 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
291 ===========================
296 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
298 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
299 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
300 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
301 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
303 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
304 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
307 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
308 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
309 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
310 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
313 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
315 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
318 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
319 =========================
321 Command-Line Interface
322 ----------------------
326 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
327 for a reply message and full information about the original message
328 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
329 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
331 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
332 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
333 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
334 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
338 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
339 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
341 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
342 tag in your query, for example:
344 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
346 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
347 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
349 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
350 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
352 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
354 Raw show format changes
356 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
357 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
358 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
359 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
360 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
361 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
362 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
363 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
365 Listing configuration items
367 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
373 Changes to tagging interface
375 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
376 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
377 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
378 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
379 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
380 for more information.
382 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
383 may need to update in custom configurations.
385 Reply improvement using the JSON format
387 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
388 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
389 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
390 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
393 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
394 -----------------------------
396 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
397 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
398 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
399 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
400 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
401 contrib/ from now on.
406 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
407 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
409 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
410 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
412 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
413 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
414 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
416 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
417 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
419 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
420 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
421 returning the new database object or directory object.
428 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
429 compatible with go 1.
431 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
432 =========================
434 Command-Line Interface
435 ----------------------
439 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
440 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
441 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
442 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
444 Mail store folder/file ignore
446 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
447 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
448 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
450 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
451 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
453 Unified help and manual pages
455 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
456 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
459 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
461 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
462 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
470 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
471 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
472 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
473 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
475 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
477 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
478 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
480 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
483 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
484 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
485 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
487 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
489 should be changed to:
491 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
493 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
495 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
496 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
498 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
500 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
501 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
502 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
503 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
504 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
505 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
509 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
510 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
511 of Mailing List Archives.
513 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
515 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
516 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
519 Show view archiving key binding changes
521 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
522 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
523 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
524 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
525 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
528 Support text/calendar MIME type
530 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
533 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
535 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
536 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
537 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
538 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
540 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
542 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
543 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
544 messages blue by default in the search view.
548 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
549 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
556 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
559 Python bindings changes
560 -----------------------
562 Python 3.2 compatibility
564 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
566 Added missing unicode conversions
568 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
569 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
570 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
575 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
577 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
578 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
579 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
580 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
581 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
583 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
584 ===========================
589 Fix error handling in python bindings
591 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
592 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
593 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
594 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
596 Quote MML tags in replies
598 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
599 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
600 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
601 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
602 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
603 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
604 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
605 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
607 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
608 =========================
610 Command-Line Interface
611 ----------------------
615 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
616 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
617 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
618 importing new messages into the database.
620 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
622 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
623 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
624 sometimes. This is now fixed.
629 Automatic tag query optimization
631 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
632 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
633 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
635 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
637 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
638 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
639 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
644 Reduction of memory leaks
646 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
647 and fixed in this release.
654 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
655 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
656 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
659 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
661 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
662 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
663 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
666 Improvements in saved search management
668 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
669 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
670 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
672 Hooks for notmuch-hello
674 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
675 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
676 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
678 New face for crypto parts headers
680 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
681 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
682 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
685 Use space as default thousands separator
687 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
688 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
689 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
691 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
694 New function notmuch-show-advance
696 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
697 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
698 be bound to SPC with:
700 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
702 Various performance improvements
707 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
708 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
711 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
712 ===========================
717 Fix crash in python bindings
719 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
720 for some, but not all users.
722 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
723 ===========================
728 Fix `--help` argument
730 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
731 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
732 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
734 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
735 =========================
737 New build and testing features
738 ------------------------------
740 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
741 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
742 prerequisites is improved.
744 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
746 New command-line features
747 -------------------------
749 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
751 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
752 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
755 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
757 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
758 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
759 favour of using stdout.
761 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
763 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
764 limit the number of results shown.
766 Add `notmuch count --output` option
768 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
769 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
772 New emacs UI features
773 ---------------------
775 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
777 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
778 starting with "tag:".
780 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
782 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
783 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
785 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
787 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
789 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
791 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
792 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
797 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
799 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
801 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
802 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
803 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
804 requires a database rebuild:
806 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
807 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
809 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
811 New collection of add-on tools
812 ------------------------------
814 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
815 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
816 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
819 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
821 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
822 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
823 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
825 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
826 ========================
828 New, general features
829 ---------------------
831 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
833 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
834 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
835 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
836 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
837 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
844 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
845 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
847 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
851 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
852 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
853 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
856 Python bindings changes
857 -----------------------
859 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
861 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
862 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
863 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
864 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
865 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
866 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
868 Ruby bindings changes
869 ---------------------
871 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
872 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
873 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
874 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
879 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
881 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
882 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
884 Reply formatting cleanup
885 ------------------------
887 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
888 MIME parts are being suppressed.
890 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
891 ========================
893 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
895 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
896 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
897 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
898 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
901 Improved Build system portability
903 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
904 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
905 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
907 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
909 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
911 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
913 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
914 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
915 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
917 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
918 ========================
920 Vim interface improvements
921 --------------------------
923 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
925 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
926 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
927 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
928 * fix from list reformatting in search view
929 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
931 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
933 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
934 * fix compose temp file name
936 Python Bindings changes
937 -----------------------
939 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
941 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
942 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
944 Build-System improvements
945 -------------------------
947 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
949 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
952 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
953 ==========================
958 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
960 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
961 people running gcc 4.4.5.
963 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
964 =======================
966 New, general features
967 ---------------------
969 Folder-based searching
971 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
972 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
973 storage). The syntax is as follows:
977 For example, one might use things such as:
983 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
984 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
986 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
987 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
988 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
989 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
991 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
992 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
993 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
996 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
997 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
999 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1001 Support for PGP/MIME
1003 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1004 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1005 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1007 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1009 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1010 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1012 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1013 notmuch will receive these tags.
1015 New command-line features
1016 -------------------------
1018 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1020 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1021 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1023 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1025 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1026 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1027 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1029 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1031 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1032 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1033 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1034 which parts a signature part applies).
1036 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1038 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1039 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1040 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1041 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1042 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1045 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1047 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1048 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1049 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1050 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1051 by translating it internally to the new call.
1053 Performance improvements
1054 ------------------------
1056 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1058 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1059 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1060 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1062 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1063 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1065 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1067 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1068 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1069 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1071 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1072 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1073 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1074 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1076 Faster initial indexing
1078 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1079 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1080 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1082 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1084 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1085 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1086 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1087 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1089 New emacs-interface features
1090 ----------------------------
1092 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1094 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1095 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1096 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1097 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1098 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1099 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1101 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1103 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1104 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1105 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1106 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1108 User-selectable From address
1110 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1111 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1112 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1113 will prompt for the from address to use.
1115 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1116 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1117 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1119 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1120 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1121 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1124 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1126 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1127 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1129 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1131 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1133 ----- Original Message -----
1135 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1136 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1137 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1138 citations work much like conventional citations.
1140 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1142 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1143 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1144 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1145 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1146 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1148 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1149 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1151 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1153 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1154 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1155 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1157 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1159 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1160 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1161 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1162 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1163 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1165 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1167 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1170 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1172 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1174 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1176 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1179 Vim interface improvements
1180 --------------------------
1182 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1184 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1185 * Implementing archive in show view
1186 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1187 * Add delete commands
1190 Bindings improvements
1191 ---------------------
1193 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1195 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1196 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1198 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1200 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1204 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1205 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1206 `list(Messages)` works now
1207 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1209 These allow, for example:
1211 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1213 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1215 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1221 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1223 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1226 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1228 New build-system features
1229 -------------------------
1231 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1233 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1234 the configure script from some other directory:
1241 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1243 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1244 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1245 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1246 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1247 manual invocation of configure.
1249 New test-suite feature
1250 ----------------------
1252 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1254 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1255 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1256 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1257 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1258 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1261 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1263 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1264 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1265 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1266 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1267 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1268 are updated to take advantage of this.
1270 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1272 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1273 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1274 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1275 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1281 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1283 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1284 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1285 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1287 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1289 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1291 to:user@elsewhere.com
1293 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1295 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1297 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1299 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1300 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1301 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1304 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1305 from the Received headers in some cases
1307 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1308 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1310 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1312 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1314 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1316 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1317 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1318 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1320 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1321 -------------------------
1323 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1325 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1326 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1327 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1329 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1331 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1332 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1333 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1336 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1338 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1339 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1340 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1341 fixed to avoid this bug.
1343 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1345 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1346 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1348 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1349 ========================
1351 New, general features
1352 ---------------------
1354 Maildir-flag synchronization
1356 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1357 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1366 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1368 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1369 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1370 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1371 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1373 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1374 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1375 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1376 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1379 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1381 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1382 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1383 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1385 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1386 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1388 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1389 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1391 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1392 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1393 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1395 New library features
1396 --------------------
1398 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1400 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1401 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1402 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1403 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1405 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1406 message with the new function:
1408 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1410 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1411 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1412 over all available filenames for a given message.
1414 New command-line features
1415 -------------------------
1417 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1419 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1420 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1421 access to the mail store itself.
1423 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1424 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1425 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1426 name of a script containing:
1428 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1430 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1431 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1437 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1439 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1441 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1443 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1444 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1445 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1446 now produces nothing).
1448 Emacs interface improvements
1449 ----------------------------
1451 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1453 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1455 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1457 Display current thread subject in a header line
1459 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1461 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1463 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1464 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1465 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1466 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1467 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1468 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1469 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1471 Vim interface improvements
1472 --------------------------
1474 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1476 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1477 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1483 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1485 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1486 ========================
1488 New command-line features
1489 -------------------------
1491 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1493 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1494 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1495 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1497 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1498 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1499 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1500 scripts. For example:
1502 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1503 <operations-on> "$file"
1506 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1508 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1509 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1510 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1511 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1512 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1513 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1515 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1517 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1518 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1519 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1520 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1522 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1524 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1525 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1526 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1527 default rather than Bcc.
1529 New library features
1530 --------------------
1532 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1534 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1535 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1540 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1542 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1543 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1544 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1545 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1546 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1547 notmuch customize interface.
1549 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1551 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1552 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1553 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1554 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1556 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1558 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1559 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1560 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1561 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1563 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1565 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1566 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1567 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1568 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1569 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1570 notmuch customize interface.
1572 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1574 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1575 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1576 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1577 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1578 notmuch customize interface.
1580 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1582 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1583 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1584 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1585 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1588 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1590 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1591 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1592 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1595 New build-system features
1596 -------------------------
1598 Various portability fixes have been applied
1600 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1601 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1602 more portable than ever before.
1604 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1606 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1607 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1608 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1610 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1611 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1612 automatically run ldconfig.
1614 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1615 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1616 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1618 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1619 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1620 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1621 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1623 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1625 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1626 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1627 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1628 used in the resulting Makefile.
1630 New test-suite features
1631 -----------------------
1633 New modularization of test suite
1635 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1636 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1637 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1638 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1639 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1640 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1641 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1642 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1644 New testing of emacs interface
1646 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1647 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1648 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1649 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1650 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1651 database via the FCC setting.
1656 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1658 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1659 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1660 persistent error of the form:
1662 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1664 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1665 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1667 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1669 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1670 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1671 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1673 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1675 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1676 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1677 parsing the notmuch results).
1679 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1681 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1684 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1685 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1686 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1691 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1693 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1694 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1695 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1696 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1697 the emacs interface.
1699 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1701 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1702 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1703 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1705 Python-binding fixes
1706 --------------------
1708 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1710 Debian-specific fixes
1711 ---------------------
1713 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1715 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1716 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1717 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1720 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1721 ==========================
1726 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1728 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1729 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1730 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1731 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1733 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1735 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1736 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1737 want notmuch to crash.
1742 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1744 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1745 directory does not exist
1750 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1752 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1753 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1755 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1756 ========================
1758 New command-line features
1759 -------------------------
1761 User-configurable tags for new messages
1763 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1764 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1765 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1766 to specify this value.
1768 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1770 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1771 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1772 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1774 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1776 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1777 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1779 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1781 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1782 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1783 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1784 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1785 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1788 Indication of author names that match a search
1790 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1791 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1792 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1793 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1794 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1795 messages in the thread are listed first.
1797 New: Python bindings
1798 --------------------
1800 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1801 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1802 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1803 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1805 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1806 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1807 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1810 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1811 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1812 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1814 Emacs interface improvements
1815 ----------------------------
1817 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1819 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1820 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1821 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1822 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1823 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1824 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1825 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1826 but without any of the disadvantages).
1828 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1829 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1830 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1833 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1834 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1835 instead running something like:
1837 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1839 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1840 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1841 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1844 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1846 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1847 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1848 tweaked by the user.
1850 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1851 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1852 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1855 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1856 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1857 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1860 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1862 This support currently relies on an external program,
1863 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1864 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1865 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1866 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1867 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1870 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1871 notmuch) is available via:
1873 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1875 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1876 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1877 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1879 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1881 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1882 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1883 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1884 making this automatic in a future release.
1886 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1888 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1889 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1890 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1891 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1892 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1893 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1896 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1898 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1899 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1900 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1902 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1904 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1905 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1906 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1908 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1909 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1910 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1911 other representation.
1913 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1914 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1917 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1919 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1920 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1921 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1923 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1924 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1925 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1927 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1929 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1930 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1931 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1932 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1933 to display the search result.
1935 More flexible handling of header visibility
1937 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1938 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1939 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1940 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1941 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1942 with the 'h' keybinding.
1944 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1945 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1946 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1948 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1950 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1952 Customizable formatting of search results
1954 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1955 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1956 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1958 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1960 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1962 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1967 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1969 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1970 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1971 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1972 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1978 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1980 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1981 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1983 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1985 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1986 accept are now all accepted.
1991 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1993 Better display of output from failed tests
1995 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1996 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1998 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1999 ========================
2001 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2002 detailed release notes this time!
2004 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2005 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2007 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2008 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2009 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2010 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2017 Better guessing of From: header
2019 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2020 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2021 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2022 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2023 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2026 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2028 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2029 guaranteed to match all messages.
2031 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2033 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2034 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2035 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2036 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2037 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2040 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2043 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2044 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2045 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2046 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2051 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2053 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2054 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2055 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2056 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2058 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2060 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2062 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2063 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2064 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2066 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2068 Previously, the user might see:
2070 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2074 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2076 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2077 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2078 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2079 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2081 Emacs client features
2082 ---------------------
2084 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2086 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2087 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2088 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2089 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2090 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2092 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2095 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2096 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2097 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2098 search with the '*' binding.
2100 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2102 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2103 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2106 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2108 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2109 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2110 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2112 Build-system features
2113 ---------------------
2115 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2117 Add support to configure for many standard options
2119 We include actual support for:
2121 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2123 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2125 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2126 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2128 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2129 separate "make install-emacs"
2131 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2133 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2134 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2135 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2137 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2140 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2141 ========================
2143 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2145 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2146 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2148 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2149 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2150 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2151 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2152 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2153 tags from messages in a thread.
2160 indent-tabs-mode: nil