1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
17 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
19 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
20 tag in your query, for example:
22 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
24 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
25 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
27 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
28 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
30 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
37 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
38 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
39 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
40 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
47 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
53 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
55 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
56 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
57 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
59 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
60 =========================
62 Command-Line Interface
63 ----------------------
67 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
68 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
69 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
70 importing new messages into the database.
72 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
74 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
75 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
76 sometimes. This is now fixed.
81 Automatic tag query optimization
83 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
84 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
85 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
87 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
89 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
90 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
91 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
96 Reduction of memory leaks
98 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
99 and fixed in this release.
106 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
107 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
108 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
111 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
113 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
114 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
115 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
118 Improvements in saved search management
120 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
121 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
122 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
124 Hooks for notmuch-hello
126 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
127 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
128 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
130 New face for crypto parts headers
132 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
133 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
134 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
137 Use space as default thousands separator
139 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
140 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
141 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
143 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
144 buttonized id: links.
146 New function notmuch-show-advance
148 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
149 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
150 be bound to SPC with:
152 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
154 Various performance improvements.
159 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
160 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
163 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
164 ===========================
169 Fix crash in python bindings.
171 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
172 for some, but not all users.
174 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
175 ===========================
182 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
183 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
186 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
187 =========================
189 New build and testing features
190 ------------------------------
192 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
193 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
194 prerequisites is improved.
196 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
198 New command-line features
199 -------------------------
201 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
203 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
204 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
207 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
209 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
210 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
211 favour of using stdout.
213 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
215 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
216 the number of results shown.
218 Add "notmuch count --output" option
220 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
221 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
223 New emacs UI features
224 ---------------------
226 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
228 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
229 starting with "tag:".
231 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
233 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
234 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
236 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
238 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
240 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
242 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
243 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
248 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
250 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
252 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
253 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
254 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
255 requires a database rebuild:
257 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
258 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
260 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
262 New collection of add-on tools
263 ------------------------------
265 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
266 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
267 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
270 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
272 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
273 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
274 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
276 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
277 ========================
279 New, general features
280 ---------------------
282 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
284 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
285 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
286 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
287 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
288 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
295 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
296 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
298 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
302 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
303 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
304 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
307 Python bindings changes
308 -----------------------
310 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
312 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
313 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
314 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
315 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
316 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
317 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
319 Ruby bindings changes
320 ---------------------
322 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
323 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
324 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
325 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
330 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
332 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
333 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
335 Reply formatting cleanup
336 ------------------------
338 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
339 MIME parts are being suppressed.
341 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
342 ========================
344 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
346 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
347 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
348 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
349 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
352 Improved Build system portability
354 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
355 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
356 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
358 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
360 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
362 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
364 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
365 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
366 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
368 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
369 ========================
371 Vim interface improvements
372 --------------------------
374 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
376 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
377 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
378 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
379 * fix from list reformatting in search view
380 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
382 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
384 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
385 * fix compose temp file name
387 Python Bindings changes
388 -----------------------
390 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
392 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
393 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
395 Build-System improvements
396 ------------------------
398 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
400 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
403 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
404 ==========================
409 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
411 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
412 people running gcc 4.4.5.
414 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
415 =======================
416 New, general features
417 ---------------------
418 Folder-based searching
420 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
421 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
422 storage). The syntax is as follows:
426 For example, one might use things such as:
432 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
433 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
435 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
436 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
437 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
438 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
440 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
441 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
442 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
445 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
446 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
448 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
452 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
453 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
454 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
456 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
458 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
459 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
461 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
462 notmuch will receive these tags.
464 New command-line features
465 -------------------------
466 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
468 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
469 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
471 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
473 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
474 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
475 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
477 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
479 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
480 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
481 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
482 which parts a signature part applies).
484 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
486 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
487 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
488 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
489 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
490 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
493 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
495 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
496 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
497 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
498 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
499 by translating it internally to the new call.
501 Performance improvements
502 ------------------------
503 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
505 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
506 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
507 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
509 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
510 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
512 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
514 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
515 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
516 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
518 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
519 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
520 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
521 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
523 Faster initial indexing
525 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
526 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
527 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
529 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
531 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
532 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
533 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
534 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
536 New emacs-interface features
537 ----------------------------
539 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
541 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
542 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
543 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
544 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
545 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
546 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
548 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
550 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
551 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
552 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
553 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
555 User-selectable From address
557 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
558 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
559 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
560 will prompt for the from address to use.
562 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
563 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
564 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
566 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
567 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
568 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
571 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
573 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
574 its parent, the subject is not shown.
576 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
578 When a message contains a line looking something like:
580 ----- Original Message -----
582 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
583 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
584 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
585 citations work much like conventional citations.
587 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
589 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
590 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
591 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
592 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
593 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
595 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
596 Notmuch After Tag Hook
598 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
600 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
601 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
602 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
604 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
606 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
607 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
608 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
609 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
610 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
612 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
614 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
617 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
619 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
621 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
622 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
624 Vim interface improvements
625 --------------------------
626 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
628 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
629 * Implementing archive in show view
630 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
631 * Add delete commands
634 Bindings improvements
635 ---------------------
636 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
638 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
639 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
641 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
642 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
645 - Message().get_filenames(),
646 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
647 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
649 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
650 These allow, for example:
653 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
655 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
660 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
661 Use len(list(Messages())) or
662 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
664 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
666 New build-system features
667 -------------------------
668 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
670 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
671 the configure script from some other directory:
678 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
680 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
681 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
682 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
683 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
684 manual invocation of configure.
686 New test-suite feature
687 ----------------------
688 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
690 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
691 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
692 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
693 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
694 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
697 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
699 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
700 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
701 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
702 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
703 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
704 are updated to take advantage of this.
706 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
708 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
709 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
710 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
711 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
716 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
718 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
719 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
720 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
722 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
724 This fixed a bug where a search for:
726 to:user@elsewhere.com
728 would incorrectly match a message sent:
730 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
732 Fix --output=json when search has no results
734 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
735 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
736 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
739 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
740 from the Received headers in some cases.
742 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
743 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
745 Cleaned up several memory leaks
747 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
749 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
751 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
752 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
753 interface and were never intended to be exported.
755 Emacs-interface bug fixes
756 -------------------------
757 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
759 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
760 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
761 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
763 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
765 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
766 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
767 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
770 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
772 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
773 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
774 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
775 fixed to avoid this bug.
777 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
779 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
780 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
782 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
783 ========================
784 New, general features
785 ---------------------
786 Maildir-flag synchronization
788 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
789 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
798 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
800 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
801 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
802 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
803 renamed with an 'R' flag).
805 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
806 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
807 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
808 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
811 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
813 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
814 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
815 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
817 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
818 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
820 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
821 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
823 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
824 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
825 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
829 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
831 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
832 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
833 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
834 notmuch_message_get_filename).
836 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
837 message with the new function:
839 notmuch_message_get_filenames
841 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
842 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
843 all available filenames for a given message.
845 New command-line features
846 -------------------------
847 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
849 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
850 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
851 access to the mail store itself.
853 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
854 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
855 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
856 name of a script containing:
858 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
860 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
861 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
866 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
868 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
870 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
872 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
873 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
874 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
875 now produces nothing).
877 Emacs interface improvements
878 ----------------------------
879 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
881 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
883 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
885 Display current thread subject in a header line.
887 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
889 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
891 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
892 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
893 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
894 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
895 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
896 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
897 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
899 Vim interface improvements
900 --------------------------
901 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
903 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
904 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
909 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
911 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
912 ========================
913 New command-line features
914 -------------------------
915 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
917 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
918 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
919 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
921 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
922 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
923 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
924 scripts. For example:
926 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
927 <operations-on> "$file"
930 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
932 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
933 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
934 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
935 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
936 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
937 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
939 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
941 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
942 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
943 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
944 custom items stored in the configuration file.
946 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
948 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
949 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
950 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
951 default rather than Bcc.
955 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
957 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
958 notmuch_query_t object.
962 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
964 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
965 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
966 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
967 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
968 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
969 notmuch customize interface.
971 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
973 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
974 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
975 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
976 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
978 Optional support for detecting inline patches
980 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
981 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
982 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
983 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
985 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
987 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
988 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
989 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
990 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
991 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
992 notmuch customize interface.
994 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
996 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
997 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
998 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
999 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1000 notmuch customize interface.
1002 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1004 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1005 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1006 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1007 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1010 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1012 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1013 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1014 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1017 New build-system features
1018 -------------------------
1019 Various portability fixes have been applied
1021 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1022 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1023 more portable than ever before.
1025 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1027 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1028 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1029 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1031 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1032 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1033 automatically run ldconfig.
1035 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1036 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1037 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1039 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1040 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1041 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1042 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1044 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1046 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1047 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1048 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1049 used in the resulting Makefile.
1051 New test-suite features
1052 -----------------------
1053 New modularization of test suite.
1055 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1056 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1057 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1058 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1059 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1060 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1061 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1062 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1064 New testing of emacs interface.
1066 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1067 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1068 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1069 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1070 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1071 database via the FCC setting.
1075 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1077 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1078 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1079 persistent error of the form:
1081 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1083 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1084 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1086 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1088 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1089 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1090 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1092 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1094 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1095 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1096 parsing the notmuch results).
1098 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1100 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1102 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1103 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1104 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1108 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1110 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1111 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1112 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1113 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1114 the emacs interface.
1116 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1118 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1119 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1120 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1122 Python-binding fixes
1123 --------------------
1124 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1126 Debian-specific fixes
1127 ---------------------
1128 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1130 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1131 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1132 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1135 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1136 ==========================
1139 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1141 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1142 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1143 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1144 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1146 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1148 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1149 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1150 want notmuch to crash.
1154 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1156 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1157 directory does not exist.
1161 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1163 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1164 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1166 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1167 ========================
1168 New command-line features
1169 -------------------------
1170 User-configurable tags for new messages
1172 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1173 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1174 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1175 to specify this value.
1177 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1179 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1180 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1181 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1183 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1185 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1186 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1188 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1190 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1191 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1192 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1193 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1194 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1197 Indication of author names that match a search
1199 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1200 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1201 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1202 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1203 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1204 messages in the thread are listed first.
1206 New: Python bindings
1207 --------------------
1208 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1209 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1210 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1211 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1213 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1214 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1215 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1218 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1219 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1220 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1222 Emacs interface improvements
1223 ----------------------------
1224 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1226 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1227 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1228 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1229 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1230 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1231 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1232 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1233 but without any of the disadvantages).
1235 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1236 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1237 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1240 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1241 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1242 recommend instead running something like:
1244 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1246 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1247 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1248 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1251 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1253 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1254 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1255 tweaked by the user.
1257 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1258 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1259 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1262 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1263 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1264 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1267 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1269 This support currently relies on an external program,
1270 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1271 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1272 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1273 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1274 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1277 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1278 notmuch) is available via:
1280 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1282 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1283 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1284 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1286 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1288 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1289 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1290 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1291 making this automatic in a future release.
1293 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1295 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1296 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1297 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1298 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1299 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1300 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1303 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1305 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1306 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1307 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1309 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1311 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1312 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1313 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1315 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1316 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1317 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1318 other representation.
1320 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1321 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1324 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1326 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1327 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1328 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1330 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1331 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1332 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1334 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1336 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1337 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1338 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1339 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1340 to display the search result.
1342 More flexible handling of header visibility
1344 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1345 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1346 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1347 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1348 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1349 with the 'h' keybinding.
1351 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1352 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1353 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1355 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1357 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1359 Customizable formatting of search results
1361 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1362 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1363 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1365 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1367 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1369 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1373 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1375 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1376 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1377 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1378 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1383 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1385 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1386 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1388 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1390 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1391 accept are now all accepted.
1395 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1397 Better display of output from failed tests.
1399 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1400 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1402 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1403 ========================
1404 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1405 detailed release notes this time!
1407 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1408 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1410 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1411 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1412 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1413 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1419 Better guessing of From: header.
1421 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1422 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1423 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1424 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1425 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1428 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1430 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1431 guaranteed to match all messages.
1433 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1435 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1436 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1437 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1438 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1439 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1442 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1445 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1446 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1447 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1448 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1452 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1454 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1455 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1456 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1457 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1459 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1461 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1463 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1464 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1465 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1467 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1469 Previously, the user might see:
1471 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1475 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1477 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1478 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1479 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1480 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1482 Emacs client features
1483 ---------------------
1484 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1486 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1487 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1488 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1489 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1490 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1492 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1495 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1496 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1497 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1498 search with the '*' binding.
1500 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1502 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1503 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1506 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1508 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1509 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1510 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1512 Build-system features
1513 ---------------------
1514 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1516 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1518 We include actual support for:
1520 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1522 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1524 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1525 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1527 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1528 separate "make install-emacs".
1530 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1532 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1533 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1534 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1536 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1539 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1540 ========================
1541 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1543 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1544 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1546 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1547 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1548 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1549 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1550 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1551 tags from messages in a thread.