1 Notmuch 0.20 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
9 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
10 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
11 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
16 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
17 docmumentation has been removed.
22 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
23 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
24 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
29 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
30 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
31 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
32 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
33 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
34 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
37 git checkout config origin/config
39 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
41 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
42 =========================
47 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
48 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
49 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
50 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
51 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
52 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
53 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
55 Command-Line Interface
56 ----------------------
58 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
60 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
61 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
62 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
63 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
64 script callers should still check the return value.
66 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
68 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
69 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
70 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
71 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
72 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
73 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
74 and returning success even if indexing fails).
76 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
78 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
79 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
80 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
82 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
84 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
85 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
86 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
87 currently unmaintained.
89 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
91 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
92 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
93 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
94 have at least `N` files associated with them.
96 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
98 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
99 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
100 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
101 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
102 count of duplicate addresses.
107 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
109 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
110 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
111 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
114 Improved handling of the unread tag
116 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
117 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
118 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
119 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
120 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
121 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
122 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
124 Expanded default saved search settings
126 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
127 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
129 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
131 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
132 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
133 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
135 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
137 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
138 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
139 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
140 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
141 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
142 the variable for details.
147 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
149 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
150 Representing these independently of the database version number will
151 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
152 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
154 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
156 Previously, library users were required to call
157 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
158 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
159 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
160 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
161 too out of date for that API.
163 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
165 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
166 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
167 atomic section will be aborted.
169 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
170 `notmuch_database_destroy`
172 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
174 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
175 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
176 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
177 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
178 messages into the same thread.
183 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
184 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
185 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
186 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
187 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
188 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
193 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
194 from the config file. Use something like:
198 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
199 "footer": "</body></html>",
208 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
213 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
214 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
215 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
217 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
218 ===========================
223 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
225 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
227 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
229 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
230 structure for signatures changed slightly.
232 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
234 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
237 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
238 ===========================
240 This is a bug fix and portability release.
245 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
247 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
249 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
251 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
253 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
259 Use --quick when starting emacs
261 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
263 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
265 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
267 Command-Line Interface
268 ----------------------
270 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
271 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
276 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
278 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
279 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
281 Fix for phrase indexing
283 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
284 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
285 will affect only newly indexed messages.
290 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
292 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
293 unintentionally removed.
295 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
296 =========================
301 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
302 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
303 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
304 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
305 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
306 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
307 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
308 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
309 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
315 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
317 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
318 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
319 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
320 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
321 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
322 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
323 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
324 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
326 There is a new `path:` search prefix
328 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
329 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
330 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
331 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
334 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
336 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
337 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
338 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
339 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
340 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
341 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
342 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
347 Notmuch database upgrade
349 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
350 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
351 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
352 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
353 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
354 released version of Notmuch before now.
356 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
358 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
359 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
360 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
361 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
363 Message header parsing changes
365 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
366 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
367 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
368 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
369 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
370 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
372 Command-Line Interface
373 ----------------------
375 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
377 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
379 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
381 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
383 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
385 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
386 user does not want it.
388 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
390 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
391 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
392 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
393 support formatted output.
395 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
397 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
398 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
399 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
407 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
408 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
409 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
410 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
411 `~/.emacs` with these.
413 Changed format for saved searches
415 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
416 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
417 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
418 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
421 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
422 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
423 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
424 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
426 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
427 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
428 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
430 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
431 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
432 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
433 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
434 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
436 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
438 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
439 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
440 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
442 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
444 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
445 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
446 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
447 message had been unread).
449 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
450 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
451 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
452 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
454 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
455 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
456 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
458 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
459 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
460 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
461 to tags already present.
465 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
466 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
467 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
468 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
469 these differ from each other.
470 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
472 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
474 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
475 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
476 for these Emacs versions.
478 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
480 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
481 newlines before calling notmuch count.
483 Bug fixes for sender identities
485 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
486 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
487 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
489 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
491 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
492 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
493 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
494 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
496 Reply pushes mark before signature
498 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
499 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
500 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
502 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
504 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
505 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
511 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
512 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
514 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
515 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
516 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
517 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
519 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
520 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
521 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
522 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
523 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
525 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
527 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
528 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
530 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
531 =========================
533 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
534 ---------------------------------------
536 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
537 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
538 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
539 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
540 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
541 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
542 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
546 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
547 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
549 Command-Line Interface
550 ----------------------
552 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
554 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
555 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
556 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
557 print for each message.
559 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
560 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
561 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
562 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
564 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
566 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
567 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
568 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
570 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
572 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
573 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
574 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
575 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
577 `notmuch compact` command
579 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
580 functionality through a more convenient interface than
581 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
582 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
583 move the compacted database into place.
588 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
590 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
591 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
592 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
593 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
594 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
595 and multiple threads.
599 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
601 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
602 search, show and tree mode itself)
604 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
607 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
608 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
610 Customising `notmuch-tree`
612 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
613 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
614 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
615 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
616 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
617 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
618 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
620 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
622 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
623 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
624 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
625 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
626 thread when the search was performed.
628 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
630 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
631 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
632 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
634 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
636 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
637 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
640 Built-in help improvements
642 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
643 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
644 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
646 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
648 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
649 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
650 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
652 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
654 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
655 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
657 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
659 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
660 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
661 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
662 to move some of them to the common keymap.
664 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
666 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
667 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
668 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
669 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
671 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
673 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
674 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
675 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
677 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
679 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
680 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
681 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
683 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
685 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
686 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
687 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
688 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
689 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
691 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
693 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
694 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
695 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
696 the body part of the message.
701 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
702 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
703 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
705 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
706 =========================
708 Command-Line Interface
709 ----------------------
711 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
713 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
714 folder and notmuch index.
716 `notmuch count --batch` option
718 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
719 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
721 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
723 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
724 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
725 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
728 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
730 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
731 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
732 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
733 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
734 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
737 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
739 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
740 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
742 Top level option to specify configuration file
744 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
745 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
747 Bash command-line completion
749 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
750 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
751 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
752 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
753 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
754 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
755 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
756 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
757 bash-completion package.
759 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
764 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
766 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
767 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
768 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
769 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
770 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
771 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
772 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
773 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
775 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
777 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
778 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
779 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
781 Key bindings for next/previous thread
783 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
784 previous thread in the search results.
786 Better handling of errors in search buffers
788 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
789 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
791 Faster search and show
793 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
794 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
795 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
796 threads should show faster.
800 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
801 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
802 in question was now removed from this release.
807 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
808 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
813 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
815 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
816 ===========================
821 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
823 Internal test framework changes
824 -------------------------------
826 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
829 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
830 ===========================
832 Internal test framework changes
833 -------------------------------
835 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
836 build failures in non-interactive environments.
838 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
839 =========================
844 Date range search support
846 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
847 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
848 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
849 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
850 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
853 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
855 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
856 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
857 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
858 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
859 but may be removed in a future release.
861 Command-Line Interface
862 ----------------------
864 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
866 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
867 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
869 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
871 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
872 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
873 officially deprecated.
875 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
877 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
878 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
879 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
881 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
883 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
884 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
887 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
888 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
891 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
893 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
894 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
895 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
897 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
899 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
900 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
901 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
903 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
905 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
906 output separated by null characters rather than newline
907 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
908 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
913 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
915 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
916 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
917 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
918 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
920 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
922 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
923 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
924 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
925 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
926 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
927 the behavior of this, see
928 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
929 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
931 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
932 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
933 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
935 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
937 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
938 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
941 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
943 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
944 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
945 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
946 simply displayed in place of the message.
948 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
950 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
951 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
953 Improved text/calendar content handling
955 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
956 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
957 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
958 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
960 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
962 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
963 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
964 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
965 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
967 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
969 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
970 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
971 for HTML email containing images.
973 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
975 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
977 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
979 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
982 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
984 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
985 the point where it was.
987 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
989 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
990 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
991 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
992 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
993 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
995 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
997 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
998 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
999 thread instead of the message id.
1001 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1002 -----------------------------
1004 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1005 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1006 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1007 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1008 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1009 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1010 further details and installation.
1015 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1017 Internal test framework changes
1018 -------------------------------
1020 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1022 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1023 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1024 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1025 can result in buggy behavior.
1027 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1028 =========================
1033 Maildir tag synchronization
1035 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1036 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1037 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1038 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1039 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1040 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1043 Command-Line Interface
1044 ----------------------
1046 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1047 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1048 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1049 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1050 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1056 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1058 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1060 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1061 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1062 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1064 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1066 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1067 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1068 span multiple lines.
1070 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1072 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1073 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1074 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1075 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1076 inside the result or message.
1078 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1080 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1081 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1083 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1084 user-specified formatting
1086 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1087 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1088 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1089 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1090 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1092 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1093 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1095 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1096 ===========================
1101 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1102 compilation error for this contrib package.
1104 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1105 ===========================
1110 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1112 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1113 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1114 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1115 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1117 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1118 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1121 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1122 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1123 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1124 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1127 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1129 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1132 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1133 =========================
1135 Command-Line Interface
1136 ----------------------
1140 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1141 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1142 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1143 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1145 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1146 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1147 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1148 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1152 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1153 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1155 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1156 tag in your query, for example:
1158 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1160 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1161 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1163 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1164 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1166 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1168 Raw show format changes
1170 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1171 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1172 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1173 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1174 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1175 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1176 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1177 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1179 Listing configuration items
1181 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1187 Changes to tagging interface
1189 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1190 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1191 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1192 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1193 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1194 for more information.
1196 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1197 may need to update in custom configurations.
1199 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1201 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1202 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1203 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1204 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1207 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1208 -----------------------------
1210 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1211 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1212 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1213 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1214 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1215 contrib/ from now on.
1220 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1221 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1223 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1224 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1226 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1227 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1228 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1230 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1231 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1233 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1234 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1235 returning the new database object or directory object.
1242 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1243 compatible with go 1.
1245 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1246 =========================
1248 Command-Line Interface
1249 ----------------------
1253 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1254 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1255 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1256 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1258 Mail store folder/file ignore
1260 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1261 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1262 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1264 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1265 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1267 Unified help and manual pages
1269 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1270 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1273 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1275 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1276 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1284 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1285 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1286 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1287 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1289 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1291 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1292 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1294 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1297 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1298 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1299 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1301 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1303 should be changed to:
1305 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1307 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1309 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1310 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1312 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1314 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1315 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1316 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1317 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1318 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1319 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1323 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1324 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1325 of Mailing List Archives.
1327 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1329 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1330 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1333 Show view archiving key binding changes
1335 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1336 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1337 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1338 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1339 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1342 Support text/calendar MIME type
1344 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1347 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1349 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1350 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1351 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1352 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1354 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1356 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1357 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1358 messages blue by default in the search view.
1362 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1363 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1370 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1373 Python bindings changes
1374 -----------------------
1376 Python 3.2 compatibility
1378 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1380 Added missing unicode conversions
1382 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1383 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1384 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1389 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1391 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1392 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1393 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1394 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1395 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1397 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1398 ===========================
1403 Fix error handling in python bindings
1405 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1406 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1407 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1408 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1410 Quote MML tags in replies
1412 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1413 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1414 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1415 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1416 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1417 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1418 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1419 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1421 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1422 =========================
1424 Command-Line Interface
1425 ----------------------
1429 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1430 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1431 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1432 importing new messages into the database.
1434 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1436 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1437 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1438 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1443 Automatic tag query optimization
1445 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1446 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1447 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1449 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1451 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1452 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1453 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1458 Reduction of memory leaks
1460 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1461 and fixed in this release.
1468 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1469 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1470 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1473 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1475 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1476 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1477 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1480 Improvements in saved search management
1482 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1483 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1484 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1486 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1488 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1489 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1490 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1492 New face for crypto parts headers
1494 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1495 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1496 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1499 Use space as default thousands separator
1501 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1502 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1503 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1505 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1506 buttonized id: links
1508 New function notmuch-show-advance
1510 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1511 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1512 be bound to SPC with:
1514 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1516 Various performance improvements
1521 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1522 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1525 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1526 ===========================
1531 Fix crash in python bindings
1533 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1534 for some, but not all users.
1536 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1537 ===========================
1542 Fix `--help` argument
1544 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1545 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1546 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1548 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1549 =========================
1551 New build and testing features
1552 ------------------------------
1554 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1555 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1556 prerequisites is improved.
1558 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1560 New command-line features
1561 -------------------------
1563 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1565 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1566 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1569 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1571 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1572 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1573 favour of using stdout.
1575 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1577 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1578 limit the number of results shown.
1580 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1582 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1583 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1586 New emacs UI features
1587 ---------------------
1589 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1591 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1592 starting with "tag:".
1594 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1596 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1597 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1599 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1601 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1603 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1605 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1606 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1611 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1613 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1615 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1616 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1617 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1618 requires a database rebuild:
1620 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1621 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1623 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1625 New collection of add-on tools
1626 ------------------------------
1628 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1629 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1630 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1633 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1635 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1636 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1637 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1639 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1640 ========================
1642 New, general features
1643 ---------------------
1645 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1647 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1648 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1649 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1650 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1651 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1658 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1659 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1661 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1665 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1666 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1667 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1670 Python bindings changes
1671 -----------------------
1673 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1675 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1676 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1677 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1678 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1679 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1680 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1682 Ruby bindings changes
1683 ---------------------
1685 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1686 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1687 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1688 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1693 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1695 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1696 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1698 Reply formatting cleanup
1699 ------------------------
1701 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1702 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1704 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1705 ========================
1707 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1709 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1710 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1711 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1712 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1715 Improved Build system portability
1717 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1718 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1719 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1721 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1723 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1725 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1727 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1728 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1729 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1731 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1732 ========================
1734 Vim interface improvements
1735 --------------------------
1737 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1739 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1740 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1741 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1742 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1743 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1745 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1747 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1748 * fix compose temp file name
1750 Python Bindings changes
1751 -----------------------
1753 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1755 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1756 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1758 Build-System improvements
1759 -------------------------
1761 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1763 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1766 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1767 ==========================
1772 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1774 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1775 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1777 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1778 =======================
1780 New, general features
1781 ---------------------
1783 Folder-based searching
1785 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1786 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1787 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1791 For example, one might use things such as:
1797 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1798 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1800 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1801 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1802 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1803 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1805 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1806 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1807 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1810 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1811 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1813 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1815 Support for PGP/MIME
1817 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1818 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1819 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1821 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1823 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1824 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1826 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1827 notmuch will receive these tags.
1829 New command-line features
1830 -------------------------
1832 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1834 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1835 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1837 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1839 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1840 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1841 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1843 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1845 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1846 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1847 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1848 which parts a signature part applies).
1850 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1852 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1853 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1854 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1855 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1856 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1859 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1861 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1862 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1863 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1864 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1865 by translating it internally to the new call.
1867 Performance improvements
1868 ------------------------
1870 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1872 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1873 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1874 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1876 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1877 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1879 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1881 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1882 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1883 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1885 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1886 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1887 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1888 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1890 Faster initial indexing
1892 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1893 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1894 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1896 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1898 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1899 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1900 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1901 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1903 New emacs-interface features
1904 ----------------------------
1906 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1908 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1909 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1910 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1911 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1912 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1913 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1915 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1917 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1918 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1919 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1920 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1922 User-selectable From address
1924 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1925 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1926 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1927 will prompt for the from address to use.
1929 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1930 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1931 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1933 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1934 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1935 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1938 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1940 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1941 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1943 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1945 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1947 ----- Original Message -----
1949 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1950 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1951 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1952 citations work much like conventional citations.
1954 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1956 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1957 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1958 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1959 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1960 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1962 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1963 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1965 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1967 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1968 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1969 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1971 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1973 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1974 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1975 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1976 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1977 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1979 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1981 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1984 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1986 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1988 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1990 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1993 Vim interface improvements
1994 --------------------------
1996 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1998 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1999 * Implementing archive in show view
2000 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2001 * Add delete commands
2004 Bindings improvements
2005 ---------------------
2007 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2009 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2010 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2012 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2014 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2018 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2019 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2020 `list(Messages)` works now
2021 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2023 These allow, for example:
2025 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2027 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2029 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2035 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2037 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2040 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2042 New build-system features
2043 -------------------------
2045 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2047 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2048 the configure script from some other directory:
2055 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2057 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2058 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2059 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2060 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2061 manual invocation of configure.
2063 New test-suite feature
2064 ----------------------
2066 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2068 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2069 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2070 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2071 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2072 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2075 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2077 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2078 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2079 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2080 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2081 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2082 are updated to take advantage of this.
2084 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2086 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2087 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2088 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2089 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2095 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2097 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2098 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2099 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2101 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2103 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2105 to:user@elsewhere.com
2107 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2109 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2111 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2113 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2114 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2115 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2118 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2119 from the Received headers in some cases
2121 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2122 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2124 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2126 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2128 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2130 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2131 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2132 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2134 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2135 -------------------------
2137 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2139 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2140 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2141 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2143 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2145 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2146 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2147 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2150 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2152 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2153 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2154 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2155 fixed to avoid this bug.
2157 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2159 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2160 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2162 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2163 ========================
2165 New, general features
2166 ---------------------
2168 Maildir-flag synchronization
2170 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2171 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2180 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2182 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2183 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2184 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2185 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2187 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2188 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2189 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2190 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2193 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2195 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2196 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2197 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2199 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2200 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2202 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2203 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2205 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2206 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2207 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2209 New library features
2210 --------------------
2212 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2214 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2215 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2216 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2217 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2219 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2220 message with the new function:
2222 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2224 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2225 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2226 over all available filenames for a given message.
2228 New command-line features
2229 -------------------------
2231 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2233 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2234 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2235 access to the mail store itself.
2237 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2238 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2239 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2240 name of a script containing:
2242 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2244 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2245 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2251 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2253 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2255 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2257 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2258 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2259 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2260 now produces nothing).
2262 Emacs interface improvements
2263 ----------------------------
2265 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2267 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2269 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2271 Display current thread subject in a header line
2273 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2275 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2277 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2278 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2279 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2280 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2281 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2282 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2283 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2285 Vim interface improvements
2286 --------------------------
2288 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2290 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2291 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2297 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2299 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2300 ========================
2302 New command-line features
2303 -------------------------
2305 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2307 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2308 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2309 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2311 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2312 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2313 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2314 scripts. For example:
2316 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2317 <operations-on> "$file"
2320 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2322 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2323 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2324 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2325 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2326 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2327 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2329 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2331 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2332 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2333 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2334 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2336 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2338 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2339 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2340 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2341 default rather than Bcc.
2343 New library features
2344 --------------------
2346 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2348 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2349 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2354 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2356 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2357 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2358 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2359 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2360 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2361 notmuch customize interface.
2363 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2365 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2366 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2367 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2368 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2370 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2372 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2373 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2374 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2375 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2377 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2379 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2380 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2381 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2382 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2383 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2384 notmuch customize interface.
2386 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2388 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2389 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2390 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2391 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2392 notmuch customize interface.
2394 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2396 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2397 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2398 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2399 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2402 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2404 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2405 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2406 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2409 New build-system features
2410 -------------------------
2412 Various portability fixes have been applied
2414 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2415 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2416 more portable than ever before.
2418 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2420 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2421 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2422 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2424 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2425 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2426 automatically run ldconfig.
2428 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2429 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2430 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2432 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2433 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2434 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2435 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2437 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2439 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2440 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2441 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2442 used in the resulting Makefile.
2444 New test-suite features
2445 -----------------------
2447 New modularization of test suite
2449 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2450 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2451 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2452 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2453 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2454 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2455 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2456 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2458 New testing of emacs interface
2460 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2461 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2462 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2463 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2464 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2465 database via the FCC setting.
2470 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2472 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2473 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2474 persistent error of the form:
2476 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2478 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2479 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2481 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2483 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2484 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2485 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2487 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2489 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2490 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2491 parsing the notmuch results).
2493 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2495 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2498 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2499 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2500 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2505 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2507 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2508 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2509 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2510 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2511 the emacs interface.
2513 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2515 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2516 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2517 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2519 Python-binding fixes
2520 --------------------
2522 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2524 Debian-specific fixes
2525 ---------------------
2527 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2529 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2530 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2531 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2534 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2535 ==========================
2540 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2542 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2543 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2544 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2545 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2547 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2549 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2550 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2551 want notmuch to crash.
2556 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2558 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2559 directory does not exist
2564 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2566 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2567 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2569 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2570 ========================
2572 New command-line features
2573 -------------------------
2575 User-configurable tags for new messages
2577 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2578 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2579 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2580 to specify this value.
2582 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2584 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2585 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2586 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2588 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2590 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2591 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2593 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2595 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2596 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2597 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2598 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2599 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2602 Indication of author names that match a search
2604 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2605 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2606 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2607 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2608 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2609 messages in the thread are listed first.
2611 New: Python bindings
2612 --------------------
2614 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2615 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2616 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2617 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2619 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2620 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2621 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2624 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2625 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2626 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2628 Emacs interface improvements
2629 ----------------------------
2631 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2633 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2634 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2635 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2636 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2637 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2638 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2639 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2640 but without any of the disadvantages).
2642 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2643 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2644 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2647 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2648 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2649 instead running something like:
2651 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2653 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2654 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2655 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2658 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2660 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2661 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2662 tweaked by the user.
2664 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2665 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2666 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2669 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2670 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2671 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2674 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2676 This support currently relies on an external program,
2677 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2678 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2679 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2680 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2681 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2684 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2685 notmuch) is available via:
2687 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2689 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2690 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2691 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2693 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2695 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2696 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2697 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2698 making this automatic in a future release.
2700 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2702 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2703 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2704 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2705 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2706 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2707 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2710 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2712 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2713 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2714 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2716 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2718 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2719 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2720 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2722 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2723 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2724 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2725 other representation.
2727 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2728 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2731 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2733 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2734 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2735 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2737 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2738 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2739 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2741 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2743 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2744 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2745 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2746 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2747 to display the search result.
2749 More flexible handling of header visibility
2751 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2752 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2753 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2754 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2755 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2756 with the 'h' keybinding.
2758 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2759 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2760 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2762 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2764 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2766 Customizable formatting of search results
2768 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2769 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2770 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2772 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2774 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2776 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2781 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2783 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2784 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2785 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2786 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2792 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2794 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2795 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2797 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2799 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2800 accept are now all accepted.
2805 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2807 Better display of output from failed tests
2809 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2810 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2812 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2813 ========================
2815 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2816 detailed release notes this time!
2818 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2819 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2821 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2822 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2823 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2824 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2831 Better guessing of From: header
2833 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2834 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2835 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2836 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2837 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2840 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2842 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2843 guaranteed to match all messages.
2845 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2847 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2848 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2849 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2850 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2851 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2854 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2857 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2858 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2859 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2860 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2865 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2867 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2868 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2869 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2870 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2872 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2874 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2876 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2877 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2878 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2880 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2882 Previously, the user might see:
2884 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2888 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2890 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2891 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2892 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2893 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2895 Emacs client features
2896 ---------------------
2898 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2900 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2901 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2902 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2903 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2904 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2906 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2909 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2910 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2911 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2912 search with the '*' binding.
2914 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2916 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2917 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2920 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2922 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2923 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2924 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2926 Build-system features
2927 ---------------------
2929 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2931 Add support to configure for many standard options
2933 We include actual support for:
2935 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2937 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2939 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2940 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2942 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2943 separate "make install-emacs"
2945 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2947 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2948 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2949 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2951 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2954 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2955 ========================
2957 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2959 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2960 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2962 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2963 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2964 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2965 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2966 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2967 tags from messages in a thread.
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