1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
8 notmuch_database_destroy
13 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
14 from the config file. Use something like:
18 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
19 "footer": "</body></html>",
28 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
30 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
31 ===========================
33 This is a bug fix and portability release.
38 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
40 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
42 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
44 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
46 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
52 Use --quick when starting emacs
54 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
56 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
58 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
60 Command-Line Interface
61 ----------------------
63 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
64 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
69 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
71 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
72 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
74 Fix for phrase indexing
76 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
77 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
78 will affect only newly indexed messages.
83 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
85 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
86 unintentionally removed.
88 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
89 =========================
94 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
95 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
96 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
97 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
98 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
99 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
100 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
101 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
102 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
108 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
110 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
111 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
112 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
113 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
114 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
115 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
116 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
117 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
119 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
121 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
122 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
123 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
124 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
127 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
129 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
130 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
131 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
132 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
133 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
134 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
135 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
140 Notmuch database upgrade
142 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
143 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
144 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
145 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
146 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
147 released version of Notmuch before now.
149 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
151 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
152 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
153 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
154 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
156 Message header parsing changes
158 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
159 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
160 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
161 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
162 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
163 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
165 Command-Line Interface
166 ----------------------
168 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
170 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
172 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
174 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
176 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
178 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
179 user does not want it.
181 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
183 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
184 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
185 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
186 support formatted output.
188 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
190 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
191 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
192 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
200 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
201 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
202 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
203 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
204 `~/.emacs` with these.
206 Changed format for saved searches
208 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
209 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
210 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
211 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
214 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
215 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
216 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
217 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
219 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
220 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
221 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
223 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
224 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
225 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
226 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
227 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
229 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
231 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
232 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
233 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
235 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
237 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
238 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
239 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
240 message had been unread).
242 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
243 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
244 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
245 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
247 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
248 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
249 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
251 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
252 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
253 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
254 to tags already present.
258 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
259 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
260 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
261 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
262 these differ from each other.
263 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
265 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
267 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
268 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
269 for these Emacs versions.
271 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
273 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
274 newlines before calling notmuch count.
276 Bug fixes for sender identities
278 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
279 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
280 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
282 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
284 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
285 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
286 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
287 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
289 Reply pushes mark before signature
291 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
292 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
293 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
295 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
297 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
298 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
304 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
305 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
307 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
308 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
309 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
310 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
312 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
313 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
314 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
315 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
316 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
318 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
320 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
321 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
323 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
324 =========================
326 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
327 ---------------------------------------
329 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
330 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
331 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
332 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
333 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
334 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
335 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
339 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
340 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
342 Command-Line Interface
343 ----------------------
345 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
347 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
348 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
349 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
350 print for each message.
352 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
353 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
354 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
355 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
357 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
359 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
360 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
361 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
363 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
365 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
366 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
367 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
368 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
370 `notmuch compact` command
372 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
373 functionality through a more convenient interface than
374 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
375 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
376 move the compacted database into place.
381 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
383 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
384 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
385 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
386 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
387 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
388 and multiple threads.
392 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
394 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
395 search, show and tree mode itself)
397 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
400 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
401 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
403 Customising `notmuch-tree`
405 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
406 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
407 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
408 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
409 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
410 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
411 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
413 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
415 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
416 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
417 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
418 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
419 thread when the search was performed.
421 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
423 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
424 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
425 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
427 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
429 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
430 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
433 Built-in help improvements
435 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
436 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
437 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
439 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
441 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
442 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
443 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
445 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
447 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
448 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
450 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
452 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
453 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
454 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
455 to move some of them to the common keymap.
457 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
459 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
460 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
461 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
462 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
464 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
466 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
467 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
468 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
470 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
472 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
473 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
474 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
476 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
478 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
479 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
480 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
481 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
482 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
484 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
486 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
487 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
488 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
489 the body part of the message.
494 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
495 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
496 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
498 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
499 =========================
501 Command-Line Interface
502 ----------------------
504 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
506 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
507 folder and notmuch index.
509 `notmuch count --batch` option
511 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
512 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
514 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
516 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
517 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
518 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
521 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
523 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
524 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
525 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
526 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
527 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
530 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
532 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
533 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
535 Top level option to specify configuration file
537 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
538 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
540 Bash command-line completion
542 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
543 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
544 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
545 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
546 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
547 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
548 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
549 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
550 bash-completion package.
552 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
557 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
559 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
560 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
561 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
562 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
563 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
564 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
565 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
566 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
568 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
570 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
571 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
572 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
574 Key bindings for next/previous thread
576 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
577 previous thread in the search results.
579 Better handling of errors in search buffers
581 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
582 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
584 Faster search and show
586 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
587 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
588 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
589 threads should show faster.
593 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
594 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
595 in question was now removed from this release.
600 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
601 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
606 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
608 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
609 ===========================
614 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
616 Internal test framework changes
617 -------------------------------
619 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
622 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
623 ===========================
625 Internal test framework changes
626 -------------------------------
628 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
629 build failures in non-interactive environments.
631 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
632 =========================
637 Date range search support
639 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
640 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
641 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
642 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
643 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
646 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
648 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
649 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
650 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
651 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
652 but may be removed in a future release.
654 Command-Line Interface
655 ----------------------
657 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
659 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
660 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
662 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
664 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
665 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
666 officially deprecated.
668 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
670 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
671 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
672 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
674 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
676 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
677 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
680 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
681 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
684 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
686 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
687 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
688 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
690 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
692 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
693 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
694 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
696 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
698 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
699 output separated by null characters rather than newline
700 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
701 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
706 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
708 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
709 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
710 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
711 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
713 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
715 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
716 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
717 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
718 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
719 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
720 the behavior of this, see
721 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
722 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
724 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
725 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
726 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
728 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
730 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
731 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
734 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
736 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
737 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
738 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
739 simply displayed in place of the message.
741 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
743 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
744 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
746 Improved text/calendar content handling
748 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
749 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
750 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
751 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
753 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
755 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
756 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
757 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
758 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
760 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
762 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
763 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
764 for HTML email containing images.
766 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
768 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
770 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
772 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
775 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
777 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
778 the point where it was.
780 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
782 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
783 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
784 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
785 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
786 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
788 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
790 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
791 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
792 thread instead of the message id.
794 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
795 -----------------------------
797 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
798 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
799 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
800 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
801 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
802 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
803 further details and installation.
808 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
810 Internal test framework changes
811 -------------------------------
813 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
815 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
816 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
817 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
818 can result in buggy behavior.
820 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
821 =========================
826 Maildir tag synchronization
828 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
829 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
830 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
831 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
832 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
833 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
836 Command-Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
840 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
841 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
842 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
843 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
849 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
851 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
853 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
854 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
855 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
857 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
859 It is now possible to embed newlines in
860 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
863 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
865 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
866 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
867 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
868 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
869 inside the result or message.
871 Search now uses the JSON format internally
873 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
874 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
876 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
877 user-specified formatting
879 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
880 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
881 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
882 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
883 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
885 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
886 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
888 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
889 ===========================
894 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
895 compilation error for this contrib package.
897 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
898 ===========================
903 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
905 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
906 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
907 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
908 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
910 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
911 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
914 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
915 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
916 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
917 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
920 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
922 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
925 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
926 =========================
928 Command-Line Interface
929 ----------------------
933 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
934 for a reply message and full information about the original message
935 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
936 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
938 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
939 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
940 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
941 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
945 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
946 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
948 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
949 tag in your query, for example:
951 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
953 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
954 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
956 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
957 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
959 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
961 Raw show format changes
963 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
964 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
965 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
966 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
967 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
968 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
969 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
970 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
972 Listing configuration items
974 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
980 Changes to tagging interface
982 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
983 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
984 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
985 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
986 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
987 for more information.
989 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
990 may need to update in custom configurations.
992 Reply improvement using the JSON format
994 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
995 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
996 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
997 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1000 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1001 -----------------------------
1003 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1004 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1005 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1006 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1007 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1008 contrib/ from now on.
1013 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1014 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1016 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1017 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1019 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1020 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1021 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1023 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1024 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1026 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1027 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1028 returning the new database object or directory object.
1035 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1036 compatible with go 1.
1038 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1039 =========================
1041 Command-Line Interface
1042 ----------------------
1046 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1047 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1048 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1049 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1051 Mail store folder/file ignore
1053 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1054 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1055 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1057 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1058 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1060 Unified help and manual pages
1062 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1063 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1066 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1068 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1069 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1077 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1078 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1079 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1080 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1082 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1084 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1085 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1087 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1090 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1091 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1092 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1094 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1096 should be changed to:
1098 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1100 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1102 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1103 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1105 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1107 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1108 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1109 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1110 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1111 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1112 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1116 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1117 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1118 of Mailing List Archives.
1120 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1122 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1123 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1126 Show view archiving key binding changes
1128 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1129 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1130 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1131 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1132 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1135 Support text/calendar MIME type
1137 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1140 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1142 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1143 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1144 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1145 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1147 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1149 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1150 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1151 messages blue by default in the search view.
1155 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1156 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1163 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1166 Python bindings changes
1167 -----------------------
1169 Python 3.2 compatibility
1171 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1173 Added missing unicode conversions
1175 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1176 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1177 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1182 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1184 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1185 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1186 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1187 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1188 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1190 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1191 ===========================
1196 Fix error handling in python bindings
1198 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1199 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1200 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1201 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1203 Quote MML tags in replies
1205 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1206 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1207 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1208 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1209 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1210 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1211 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1212 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1214 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1215 =========================
1217 Command-Line Interface
1218 ----------------------
1222 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1223 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1224 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1225 importing new messages into the database.
1227 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1229 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1230 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1231 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1236 Automatic tag query optimization
1238 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1239 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1240 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1242 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1244 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1245 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1246 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1251 Reduction of memory leaks
1253 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1254 and fixed in this release.
1261 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1262 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1263 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1266 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1268 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1269 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1270 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1273 Improvements in saved search management
1275 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1276 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1277 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1279 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1281 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1282 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1283 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1285 New face for crypto parts headers
1287 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1288 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1289 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1292 Use space as default thousands separator
1294 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1295 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1296 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1298 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1299 buttonized id: links
1301 New function notmuch-show-advance
1303 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1304 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1305 be bound to SPC with:
1307 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1309 Various performance improvements
1314 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1315 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1318 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1319 ===========================
1324 Fix crash in python bindings
1326 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1327 for some, but not all users.
1329 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1330 ===========================
1335 Fix `--help` argument
1337 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1338 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1339 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1341 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1342 =========================
1344 New build and testing features
1345 ------------------------------
1347 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1348 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1349 prerequisites is improved.
1351 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1353 New command-line features
1354 -------------------------
1356 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1358 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1359 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1362 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1364 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1365 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1366 favour of using stdout.
1368 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1370 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1371 limit the number of results shown.
1373 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1375 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1376 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1379 New emacs UI features
1380 ---------------------
1382 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1384 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1385 starting with "tag:".
1387 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1389 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1390 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1392 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1394 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1396 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1398 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1399 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1404 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1406 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1408 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1409 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1410 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1411 requires a database rebuild:
1413 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1414 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1416 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1418 New collection of add-on tools
1419 ------------------------------
1421 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1422 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1423 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1426 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1428 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1429 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1430 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1432 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1433 ========================
1435 New, general features
1436 ---------------------
1438 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1440 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1441 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1442 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1443 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1444 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1451 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1452 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1454 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1458 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1459 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1460 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1463 Python bindings changes
1464 -----------------------
1466 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1468 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1469 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1470 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1471 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1472 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1473 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1475 Ruby bindings changes
1476 ---------------------
1478 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1479 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1480 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1481 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1486 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1488 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1489 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1491 Reply formatting cleanup
1492 ------------------------
1494 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1495 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1497 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1498 ========================
1500 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1502 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1503 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1504 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1505 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1508 Improved Build system portability
1510 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1511 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1512 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1514 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1516 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1518 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1520 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1521 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1522 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1524 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1525 ========================
1527 Vim interface improvements
1528 --------------------------
1530 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1532 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1533 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1534 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1535 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1536 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1538 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1540 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1541 * fix compose temp file name
1543 Python Bindings changes
1544 -----------------------
1546 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1548 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1549 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1551 Build-System improvements
1552 -------------------------
1554 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1556 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1559 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1560 ==========================
1565 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1567 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1568 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1570 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1571 =======================
1573 New, general features
1574 ---------------------
1576 Folder-based searching
1578 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1579 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1580 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1584 For example, one might use things such as:
1590 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1591 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1593 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1594 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1595 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1596 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1598 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1599 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1600 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1603 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1604 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1606 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1608 Support for PGP/MIME
1610 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1611 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1612 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1614 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1616 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1617 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1619 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1620 notmuch will receive these tags.
1622 New command-line features
1623 -------------------------
1625 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1627 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1628 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1630 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1632 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1633 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1634 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1636 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1638 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1639 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1640 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1641 which parts a signature part applies).
1643 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1645 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1646 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1647 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1648 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1649 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1652 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1654 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1655 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1656 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1657 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1658 by translating it internally to the new call.
1660 Performance improvements
1661 ------------------------
1663 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1665 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1666 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1667 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1669 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1670 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1672 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1674 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1675 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1676 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1678 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1679 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1680 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1681 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1683 Faster initial indexing
1685 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1686 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1687 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1689 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1691 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1692 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1693 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1694 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1696 New emacs-interface features
1697 ----------------------------
1699 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1701 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1702 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1703 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1704 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1705 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1706 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1708 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1710 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1711 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1712 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1713 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1715 User-selectable From address
1717 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1718 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1719 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1720 will prompt for the from address to use.
1722 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1723 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1724 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1726 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1727 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1728 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1731 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1733 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1734 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1736 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1738 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1740 ----- Original Message -----
1742 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1743 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1744 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1745 citations work much like conventional citations.
1747 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1749 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1750 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1751 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1752 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1753 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1755 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1756 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1758 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1760 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1761 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1762 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1764 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1766 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1767 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1768 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1769 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1770 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1772 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1774 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1777 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1779 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1781 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1783 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1786 Vim interface improvements
1787 --------------------------
1789 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1791 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1792 * Implementing archive in show view
1793 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1794 * Add delete commands
1797 Bindings improvements
1798 ---------------------
1800 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1802 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1803 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1805 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1807 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1811 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1812 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1813 `list(Messages)` works now
1814 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1816 These allow, for example:
1818 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1820 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1822 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1828 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1830 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1833 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1835 New build-system features
1836 -------------------------
1838 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1840 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1841 the configure script from some other directory:
1848 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1850 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1851 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1852 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1853 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1854 manual invocation of configure.
1856 New test-suite feature
1857 ----------------------
1859 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1861 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1862 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1863 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1864 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1865 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1868 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1870 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1871 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1872 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1873 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1874 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1875 are updated to take advantage of this.
1877 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1879 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1880 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1881 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1882 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1888 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1890 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1891 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1892 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1894 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1896 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1898 to:user@elsewhere.com
1900 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1902 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1904 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1906 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1907 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1908 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1911 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1912 from the Received headers in some cases
1914 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1915 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1917 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1919 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1921 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1923 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1924 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1925 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1927 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1928 -------------------------
1930 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1932 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1933 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1934 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1936 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1938 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1939 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1940 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1943 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1945 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1946 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1947 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1948 fixed to avoid this bug.
1950 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1952 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1953 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1955 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1956 ========================
1958 New, general features
1959 ---------------------
1961 Maildir-flag synchronization
1963 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1964 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1973 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1975 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1976 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1977 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1978 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1980 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1981 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1982 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1983 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1986 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1988 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1989 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1990 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1992 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1993 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1995 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1996 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1998 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1999 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2000 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2002 New library features
2003 --------------------
2005 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2007 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2008 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2009 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2010 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2012 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2013 message with the new function:
2015 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2017 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2018 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2019 over all available filenames for a given message.
2021 New command-line features
2022 -------------------------
2024 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2026 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2027 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2028 access to the mail store itself.
2030 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2031 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2032 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2033 name of a script containing:
2035 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2037 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2038 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2044 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2046 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2048 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2050 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2051 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2052 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2053 now produces nothing).
2055 Emacs interface improvements
2056 ----------------------------
2058 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2060 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2062 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2064 Display current thread subject in a header line
2066 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2068 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2070 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2071 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2072 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2073 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2074 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2075 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2076 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2078 Vim interface improvements
2079 --------------------------
2081 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2083 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2084 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2090 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2092 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2093 ========================
2095 New command-line features
2096 -------------------------
2098 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2100 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2101 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2102 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2104 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2105 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2106 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2107 scripts. For example:
2109 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2110 <operations-on> "$file"
2113 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2115 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2116 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2117 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2118 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2119 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2120 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2122 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2124 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2125 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2126 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2127 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2129 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2131 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2132 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2133 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2134 default rather than Bcc.
2136 New library features
2137 --------------------
2139 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2141 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2142 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2147 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2149 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2150 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2151 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2152 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2153 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2154 notmuch customize interface.
2156 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2158 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2159 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2160 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2161 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2163 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2165 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2166 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2167 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2168 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2170 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2172 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2173 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2174 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2175 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2176 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2177 notmuch customize interface.
2179 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2181 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2182 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2183 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2184 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2185 notmuch customize interface.
2187 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2189 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2190 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2191 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2192 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2195 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2197 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2198 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2199 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2202 New build-system features
2203 -------------------------
2205 Various portability fixes have been applied
2207 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2208 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2209 more portable than ever before.
2211 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2213 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2214 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2215 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2217 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2218 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2219 automatically run ldconfig.
2221 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2222 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2223 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2225 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2226 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2227 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2228 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2230 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2232 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2233 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2234 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2235 used in the resulting Makefile.
2237 New test-suite features
2238 -----------------------
2240 New modularization of test suite
2242 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2243 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2244 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2245 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2246 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2247 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2248 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2249 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2251 New testing of emacs interface
2253 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2254 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2255 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2256 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2257 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2258 database via the FCC setting.
2263 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2265 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2266 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2267 persistent error of the form:
2269 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2271 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2272 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2274 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2276 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2277 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2278 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2280 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2282 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2283 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2284 parsing the notmuch results).
2286 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2288 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2291 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2292 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2293 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2298 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2300 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2301 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2302 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2303 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2304 the emacs interface.
2306 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2308 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2309 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2310 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2312 Python-binding fixes
2313 --------------------
2315 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2317 Debian-specific fixes
2318 ---------------------
2320 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2322 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2323 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2324 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2327 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2328 ==========================
2333 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2335 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2336 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2337 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2338 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2340 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2342 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2343 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2344 want notmuch to crash.
2349 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2351 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2352 directory does not exist
2357 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2359 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2360 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2362 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2363 ========================
2365 New command-line features
2366 -------------------------
2368 User-configurable tags for new messages
2370 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2371 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2372 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2373 to specify this value.
2375 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2377 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2378 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2379 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2381 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2383 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2384 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2386 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2388 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2389 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2390 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2391 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2392 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2395 Indication of author names that match a search
2397 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2398 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2399 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2400 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2401 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2402 messages in the thread are listed first.
2404 New: Python bindings
2405 --------------------
2407 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2408 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2409 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2410 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2412 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2413 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2414 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2417 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2418 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2419 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2421 Emacs interface improvements
2422 ----------------------------
2424 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2426 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2427 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2428 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2429 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2430 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2431 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2432 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2433 but without any of the disadvantages).
2435 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2436 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2437 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2440 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2441 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2442 instead running something like:
2444 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2446 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2447 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2448 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2451 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2453 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2454 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2455 tweaked by the user.
2457 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2458 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2459 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2462 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2463 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2464 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2467 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2469 This support currently relies on an external program,
2470 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2471 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2472 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2473 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2474 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2477 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2478 notmuch) is available via:
2480 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2482 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2483 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2484 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2486 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2488 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2489 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2490 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2491 making this automatic in a future release.
2493 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2495 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2496 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2497 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2498 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2499 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2500 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2503 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2505 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2506 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2507 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2509 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2511 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2512 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2513 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2515 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2516 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2517 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2518 other representation.
2520 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2521 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2524 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2526 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2527 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2528 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2530 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2531 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2532 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2534 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2536 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2537 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2538 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2539 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2540 to display the search result.
2542 More flexible handling of header visibility
2544 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2545 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2546 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2547 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2548 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2549 with the 'h' keybinding.
2551 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2552 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2553 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2555 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2557 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2559 Customizable formatting of search results
2561 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2562 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2563 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2565 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2567 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2569 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2574 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2576 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2577 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2578 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2579 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2585 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2587 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2588 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2590 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2592 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2593 accept are now all accepted.
2598 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2600 Better display of output from failed tests
2602 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2603 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2605 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2606 ========================
2608 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2609 detailed release notes this time!
2611 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2612 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2614 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2615 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2616 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2617 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2624 Better guessing of From: header
2626 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2627 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2628 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2629 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2630 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2633 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2635 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2636 guaranteed to match all messages.
2638 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2640 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2641 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2642 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2643 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2644 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2647 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2650 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2651 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2652 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2653 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2658 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2660 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2661 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2662 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2663 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2665 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2667 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2669 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2670 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2671 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2673 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2675 Previously, the user might see:
2677 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2681 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2683 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2684 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2685 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2686 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2688 Emacs client features
2689 ---------------------
2691 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2693 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2694 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2695 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2696 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2697 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2699 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2702 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2703 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2704 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2705 search with the '*' binding.
2707 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2709 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2710 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2713 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2715 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2716 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2717 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2719 Build-system features
2720 ---------------------
2722 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2724 Add support to configure for many standard options
2726 We include actual support for:
2728 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2730 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2732 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2733 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2735 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2736 separate "make install-emacs"
2738 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2740 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2741 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2742 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2744 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2747 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2748 ========================
2750 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2752 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2753 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2755 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2756 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2757 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2758 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2759 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2760 tags from messages in a thread.
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