1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
9 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
10 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
11 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
12 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
13 but may be removed in a future release.
15 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
17 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
18 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
19 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
24 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
26 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
27 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
28 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
29 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
34 Date range search support
36 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
37 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
38 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
39 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
40 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
43 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
44 -----------------------------
46 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
47 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
48 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
49 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
50 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
51 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
52 further details and installation.
54 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
55 =========================
60 Maildir tag synchronization
62 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
63 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
64 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
65 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
66 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
67 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
70 Command-Line Interface
71 ----------------------
73 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
74 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
75 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
76 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
77 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
83 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
85 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
87 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
88 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
89 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
91 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
93 It is now possible to embed newlines in
94 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
97 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
99 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
100 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
101 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
102 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
103 inside the result or message.
105 Search now uses the JSON format internally
107 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
108 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
110 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
111 user-specified formatting
113 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
114 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
115 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
116 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
117 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
119 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
120 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
122 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
123 ===========================
128 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
129 compilation error for this contrib package.
131 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
132 ===========================
137 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
139 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
140 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
141 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
142 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
144 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
145 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
148 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
149 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
150 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
151 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
154 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
156 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
159 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
160 =========================
162 Command-Line Interface
163 ----------------------
167 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
168 for a reply message and full information about the original message
169 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
170 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
172 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
173 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
174 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
175 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
179 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
180 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
182 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
183 tag in your query, for example:
185 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
187 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
188 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
190 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
191 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
193 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
195 Raw show format changes
197 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
198 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
199 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
200 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
201 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
202 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
203 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
204 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
206 Listing configuration items
208 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
214 Changes to tagging interface
216 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
217 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
218 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
219 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
220 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
221 for more information.
223 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
224 may need to update in custom configurations.
226 Reply improvement using the JSON format
228 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
229 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
230 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
231 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
234 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
235 -----------------------------
237 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
238 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
239 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
240 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
241 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
242 contrib/ from now on.
247 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
248 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
250 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
251 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
253 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
254 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
255 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
257 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
258 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
260 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
261 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
262 returning the new database object or directory object.
269 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
270 compatible with go 1.
272 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
273 =========================
275 Command-Line Interface
276 ----------------------
280 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
281 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
282 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
283 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
285 Mail store folder/file ignore
287 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
288 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
289 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
291 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
292 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
294 Unified help and manual pages
296 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
297 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
300 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
302 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
303 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
311 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
312 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
313 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
314 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
316 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
318 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
319 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
321 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
324 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
325 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
326 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
328 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
330 should be changed to:
332 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
334 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
336 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
337 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
339 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
341 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
342 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
343 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
344 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
345 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
346 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
350 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
351 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
352 of Mailing List Archives.
354 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
356 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
357 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
360 Show view archiving key binding changes
362 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
363 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
364 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
365 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
366 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
369 Support text/calendar MIME type
371 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
374 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
376 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
377 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
378 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
379 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
381 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
383 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
384 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
385 messages blue by default in the search view.
389 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
390 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
397 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
400 Python bindings changes
401 -----------------------
403 Python 3.2 compatibility
405 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
407 Added missing unicode conversions
409 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
410 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
411 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
416 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
418 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
419 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
420 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
421 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
422 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
424 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
425 ===========================
430 Fix error handling in python bindings
432 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
433 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
434 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
435 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
437 Quote MML tags in replies
439 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
440 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
441 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
442 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
443 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
444 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
445 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
446 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
448 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
449 =========================
451 Command-Line Interface
452 ----------------------
456 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
457 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
458 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
459 importing new messages into the database.
461 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
463 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
464 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
465 sometimes. This is now fixed.
470 Automatic tag query optimization
472 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
473 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
474 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
476 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
478 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
479 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
480 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
485 Reduction of memory leaks
487 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
488 and fixed in this release.
495 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
496 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
497 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
500 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
502 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
503 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
504 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
507 Improvements in saved search management
509 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
510 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
511 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
513 Hooks for notmuch-hello
515 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
516 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
517 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
519 New face for crypto parts headers
521 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
522 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
523 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
526 Use space as default thousands separator
528 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
529 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
530 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
532 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
535 New function notmuch-show-advance
537 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
538 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
539 be bound to SPC with:
541 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
543 Various performance improvements
548 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
549 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
552 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
553 ===========================
558 Fix crash in python bindings
560 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
561 for some, but not all users.
563 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
564 ===========================
569 Fix `--help` argument
571 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
572 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
573 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
575 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
576 =========================
578 New build and testing features
579 ------------------------------
581 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
582 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
583 prerequisites is improved.
585 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
587 New command-line features
588 -------------------------
590 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
592 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
593 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
596 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
598 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
599 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
600 favour of using stdout.
602 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
604 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
605 limit the number of results shown.
607 Add `notmuch count --output` option
609 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
610 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
613 New emacs UI features
614 ---------------------
616 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
618 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
619 starting with "tag:".
621 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
623 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
624 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
626 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
628 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
630 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
632 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
633 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
638 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
640 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
642 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
643 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
644 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
645 requires a database rebuild:
647 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
648 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
650 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
652 New collection of add-on tools
653 ------------------------------
655 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
656 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
657 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
660 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
662 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
663 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
664 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
666 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
667 ========================
669 New, general features
670 ---------------------
672 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
674 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
675 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
676 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
677 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
678 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
685 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
686 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
688 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
692 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
693 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
694 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
697 Python bindings changes
698 -----------------------
700 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
702 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
703 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
704 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
705 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
706 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
707 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
709 Ruby bindings changes
710 ---------------------
712 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
713 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
714 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
715 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
720 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
722 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
723 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
725 Reply formatting cleanup
726 ------------------------
728 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
729 MIME parts are being suppressed.
731 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
732 ========================
734 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
736 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
737 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
738 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
739 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
742 Improved Build system portability
744 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
745 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
746 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
748 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
750 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
752 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
754 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
755 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
756 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
758 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
759 ========================
761 Vim interface improvements
762 --------------------------
764 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
766 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
767 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
768 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
769 * fix from list reformatting in search view
770 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
772 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
774 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
775 * fix compose temp file name
777 Python Bindings changes
778 -----------------------
780 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
782 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
783 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
785 Build-System improvements
786 -------------------------
788 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
790 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
793 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
794 ==========================
799 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
801 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
802 people running gcc 4.4.5.
804 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
805 =======================
807 New, general features
808 ---------------------
810 Folder-based searching
812 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
813 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
814 storage). The syntax is as follows:
818 For example, one might use things such as:
824 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
825 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
827 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
828 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
829 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
830 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
832 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
833 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
834 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
837 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
838 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
840 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
844 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
845 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
846 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
848 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
850 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
851 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
853 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
854 notmuch will receive these tags.
856 New command-line features
857 -------------------------
859 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
861 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
862 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
864 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
866 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
867 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
868 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
870 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
872 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
873 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
874 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
875 which parts a signature part applies).
877 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
879 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
880 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
881 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
882 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
883 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
886 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
888 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
889 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
890 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
891 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
892 by translating it internally to the new call.
894 Performance improvements
895 ------------------------
897 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
899 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
900 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
901 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
903 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
904 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
906 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
908 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
909 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
910 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
912 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
913 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
914 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
915 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
917 Faster initial indexing
919 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
920 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
921 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
923 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
925 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
926 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
927 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
928 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
930 New emacs-interface features
931 ----------------------------
933 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
935 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
936 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
937 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
938 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
939 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
940 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
942 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
944 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
945 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
946 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
947 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
949 User-selectable From address
951 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
952 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
953 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
954 will prompt for the from address to use.
956 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
957 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
958 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
960 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
961 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
962 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
965 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
967 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
968 its parent, the subject is not shown.
970 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
972 When a message contains a line looking something like:
974 ----- Original Message -----
976 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
977 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
978 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
979 citations work much like conventional citations.
981 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
983 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
984 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
985 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
986 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
987 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
989 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
990 Notmuch After Tag Hook
992 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
994 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
995 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
996 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
998 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1000 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1001 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1002 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1003 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1004 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1006 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1008 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1011 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1013 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1015 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1017 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1020 Vim interface improvements
1021 --------------------------
1023 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1025 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1026 * Implementing archive in show view
1027 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1028 * Add delete commands
1031 Bindings improvements
1032 ---------------------
1034 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1036 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1037 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1039 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1041 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1045 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1046 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1047 `list(Messages)` works now
1048 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1050 These allow, for example:
1052 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1054 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1056 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1062 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1064 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1067 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1069 New build-system features
1070 -------------------------
1072 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1074 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1075 the configure script from some other directory:
1082 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1084 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1085 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1086 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1087 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1088 manual invocation of configure.
1090 New test-suite feature
1091 ----------------------
1093 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1095 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1096 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1097 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1098 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1099 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1102 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1104 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1105 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1106 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1107 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1108 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1109 are updated to take advantage of this.
1111 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1113 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1114 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1115 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1116 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1122 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1124 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1125 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1126 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1128 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1130 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1132 to:user@elsewhere.com
1134 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1136 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1138 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1140 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1141 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1142 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1145 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1146 from the Received headers in some cases
1148 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1149 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1151 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1153 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1155 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1157 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1158 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1159 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1161 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1162 -------------------------
1164 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1166 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1167 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1168 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1170 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1172 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1173 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1174 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1177 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1179 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1180 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1181 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1182 fixed to avoid this bug.
1184 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1186 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1187 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1189 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1190 ========================
1192 New, general features
1193 ---------------------
1195 Maildir-flag synchronization
1197 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1198 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1207 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1209 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1210 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1211 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1212 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1214 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1215 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1216 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1217 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1220 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1222 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1223 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1224 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1226 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1227 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1229 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1230 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1232 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1233 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1234 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1236 New library features
1237 --------------------
1239 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1241 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1242 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1243 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1244 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1246 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1247 message with the new function:
1249 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1251 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1252 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1253 over all available filenames for a given message.
1255 New command-line features
1256 -------------------------
1258 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1260 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1261 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1262 access to the mail store itself.
1264 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1265 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1266 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1267 name of a script containing:
1269 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1271 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1272 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1278 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1280 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1282 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1284 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1285 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1286 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1287 now produces nothing).
1289 Emacs interface improvements
1290 ----------------------------
1292 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1294 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1296 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1298 Display current thread subject in a header line
1300 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1302 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1304 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1305 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1306 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1307 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1308 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1309 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1310 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1312 Vim interface improvements
1313 --------------------------
1315 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1317 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1318 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1324 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1326 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1327 ========================
1329 New command-line features
1330 -------------------------
1332 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1334 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1335 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1336 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1338 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1339 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1340 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1341 scripts. For example:
1343 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1344 <operations-on> "$file"
1347 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1349 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1350 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1351 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1352 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1353 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1354 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1356 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1358 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1359 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1360 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1361 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1363 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1365 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1366 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1367 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1368 default rather than Bcc.
1370 New library features
1371 --------------------
1373 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1375 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1376 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1381 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1383 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1384 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1385 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1386 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1387 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1388 notmuch customize interface.
1390 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1392 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1393 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1394 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1395 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1397 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1399 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1400 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1401 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1402 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1404 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1406 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1407 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1408 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1409 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1410 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1411 notmuch customize interface.
1413 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1415 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1416 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1417 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1418 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1419 notmuch customize interface.
1421 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1423 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1424 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1425 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1426 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1429 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1431 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1432 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1433 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1436 New build-system features
1437 -------------------------
1439 Various portability fixes have been applied
1441 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1442 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1443 more portable than ever before.
1445 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1447 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1448 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1449 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1451 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1452 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1453 automatically run ldconfig.
1455 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1456 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1457 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1459 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1460 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1461 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1462 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1464 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1466 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1467 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1468 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1469 used in the resulting Makefile.
1471 New test-suite features
1472 -----------------------
1474 New modularization of test suite
1476 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1477 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1478 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1479 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1480 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1481 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1482 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1483 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1485 New testing of emacs interface
1487 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1488 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1489 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1490 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1491 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1492 database via the FCC setting.
1497 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1499 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1500 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1501 persistent error of the form:
1503 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1505 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1506 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1508 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1510 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1511 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1512 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1514 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1516 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1517 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1518 parsing the notmuch results).
1520 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1522 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1525 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1526 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1527 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1532 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1534 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1535 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1536 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1537 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1538 the emacs interface.
1540 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1542 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1543 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1544 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1546 Python-binding fixes
1547 --------------------
1549 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1551 Debian-specific fixes
1552 ---------------------
1554 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1556 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1557 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1558 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1561 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1562 ==========================
1567 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1569 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1570 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1571 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1572 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1574 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1576 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1577 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1578 want notmuch to crash.
1583 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1585 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1586 directory does not exist
1591 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1593 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1594 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1596 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1597 ========================
1599 New command-line features
1600 -------------------------
1602 User-configurable tags for new messages
1604 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1605 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1606 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1607 to specify this value.
1609 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1611 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1612 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1613 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1615 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1617 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1618 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1620 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1622 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1623 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1624 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1625 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1626 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1629 Indication of author names that match a search
1631 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1632 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1633 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1634 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1635 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1636 messages in the thread are listed first.
1638 New: Python bindings
1639 --------------------
1641 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1642 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1643 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1644 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1646 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1647 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1648 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1651 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1652 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1653 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1655 Emacs interface improvements
1656 ----------------------------
1658 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1660 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1661 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1662 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1663 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1664 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1665 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1666 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1667 but without any of the disadvantages).
1669 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1670 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1671 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1674 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1675 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1676 instead running something like:
1678 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1680 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1681 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1682 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1685 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1687 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1688 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1689 tweaked by the user.
1691 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1692 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1693 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1696 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1697 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1698 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1701 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1703 This support currently relies on an external program,
1704 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1705 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1706 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1707 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1708 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1711 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1712 notmuch) is available via:
1714 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1716 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1717 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1718 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1720 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1722 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1723 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1724 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1725 making this automatic in a future release.
1727 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1729 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1730 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1731 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1732 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1733 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1734 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1737 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1739 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1740 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1741 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1743 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1745 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1746 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1747 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1749 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1750 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1751 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1752 other representation.
1754 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1755 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1758 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1760 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1761 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1762 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1764 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1765 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1766 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1768 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1770 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1771 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1772 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1773 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1774 to display the search result.
1776 More flexible handling of header visibility
1778 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1779 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1780 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1781 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1782 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1783 with the 'h' keybinding.
1785 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1786 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1787 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1789 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1791 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1793 Customizable formatting of search results
1795 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1796 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1797 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1799 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1801 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1803 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1808 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1810 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1811 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1812 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1813 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1819 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1821 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1822 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1824 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1826 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1827 accept are now all accepted.
1832 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1834 Better display of output from failed tests
1836 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1837 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1839 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1840 ========================
1842 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1843 detailed release notes this time!
1845 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1846 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1848 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1849 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1850 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1851 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1858 Better guessing of From: header
1860 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1861 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1862 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1863 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1864 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1867 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1869 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1870 guaranteed to match all messages.
1872 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1874 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1875 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1876 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1877 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1878 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1881 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1884 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1885 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1886 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1887 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1892 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1894 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1895 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1896 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1897 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1899 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1901 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1903 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1904 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1905 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1907 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1909 Previously, the user might see:
1911 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1915 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1917 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1918 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1919 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1920 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1922 Emacs client features
1923 ---------------------
1925 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1927 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1928 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1929 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1930 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1931 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1933 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1936 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1937 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1938 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1939 search with the '*' binding.
1941 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1943 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1944 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1947 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1949 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1950 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1951 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1953 Build-system features
1954 ---------------------
1956 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1958 Add support to configure for many standard options
1960 We include actual support for:
1962 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1964 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1966 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1967 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1969 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1970 separate "make install-emacs"
1972 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1974 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1975 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1976 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1978 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1981 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1982 ========================
1984 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1986 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1987 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1989 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1990 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1991 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1992 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1993 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1994 tags from messages in a thread.
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