1 Notmuch 0.14 (xxxx-xx-xx)
2 =========================
7 Maildir tag synchronization
9 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
10 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
11 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
12 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
13 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
14 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
20 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
22 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
24 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
25 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
26 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
28 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
30 It is now possible to embed newlines in
31 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
34 Search now uses the JSON format internally
36 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
37 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
39 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
40 user-specified formatting
42 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
43 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
44 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
45 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
46 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
48 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
49 ===========================
54 Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
55 compilation error for this contrib package.
57 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
58 ===========================
63 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
65 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
66 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
67 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
68 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
70 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
71 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
74 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
75 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
76 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
77 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
80 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
82 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
85 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
86 =========================
88 Command-Line Interface
89 ----------------------
93 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
94 for a reply message and full information about the original message
95 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
96 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
98 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
99 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
100 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
101 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
105 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
106 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
108 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
109 tag in your query, for example:
111 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
113 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
114 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
116 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
117 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
119 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
121 Raw show format changes
123 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
124 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
125 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
126 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
127 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
128 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
129 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
130 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
132 Listing configuration items
134 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
140 Changes to tagging interface
142 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
143 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
144 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
145 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
146 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
147 for more information.
149 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
150 may need to update in custom configurations.
152 Reply improvement using the JSON format
154 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
155 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
156 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
157 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
160 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
161 -----------------------------
163 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
164 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
165 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
166 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
167 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
168 contrib/ from now on.
173 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
174 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
176 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
177 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
179 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
180 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
181 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
183 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
184 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
186 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
187 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
188 returning the new database object or directory object.
195 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
196 compatible with go 1.
198 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
199 =========================
201 Command-Line Interface
202 ----------------------
206 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
207 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
208 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
209 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
211 Mail store folder/file ignore
213 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
214 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
215 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
217 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
218 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
220 Unified help and manual pages
222 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
223 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
226 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
228 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
229 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
237 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
238 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
239 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
240 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
242 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
244 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
245 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
247 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
250 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
251 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
252 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
254 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
256 should be changed to:
258 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
260 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
262 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
263 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
265 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
267 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
268 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
269 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
270 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
271 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
272 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
276 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
277 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
278 of Mailing List Archives.
280 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
282 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
283 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
286 Show view archiving key binding changes
288 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
289 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
290 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
291 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
292 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
295 Support text/calendar MIME type
297 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
300 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
302 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
303 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
304 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
305 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
307 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
309 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
310 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
311 messages blue by default in the search view.
315 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
316 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
323 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
326 Python bindings changes
327 -----------------------
329 Python 3.2 compatibility
331 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
333 Added missing unicode conversions
335 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
336 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
337 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
342 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
344 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
345 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
346 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
347 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
348 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
350 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
351 ===========================
356 Fix error handling in python bindings
358 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
359 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
360 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
361 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
363 Quote MML tags in replies
365 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
366 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
367 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
368 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
369 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
370 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
371 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
372 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
374 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
375 =========================
377 Command-Line Interface
378 ----------------------
382 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
383 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
384 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
385 importing new messages into the database.
387 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
389 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
390 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
391 sometimes. This is now fixed.
396 Automatic tag query optimization
398 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
399 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
400 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
402 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
404 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
405 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
406 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
411 Reduction of memory leaks
413 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
414 and fixed in this release.
421 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
422 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
423 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
426 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
428 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
429 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
430 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
433 Improvements in saved search management
435 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
436 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
437 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
439 Hooks for notmuch-hello
441 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
442 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
443 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
445 New face for crypto parts headers
447 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
448 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
449 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
452 Use space as default thousands separator
454 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
455 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
456 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
458 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
461 New function notmuch-show-advance
463 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
464 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
465 be bound to SPC with:
467 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
469 Various performance improvements
474 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
475 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
478 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
479 ===========================
484 Fix crash in python bindings
486 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
487 for some, but not all users.
489 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
490 ===========================
495 Fix `--help` argument
497 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
498 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
499 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
501 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
502 =========================
504 New build and testing features
505 ------------------------------
507 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
508 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
509 prerequisites is improved.
511 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
513 New command-line features
514 -------------------------
516 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
518 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
519 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
522 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
524 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
525 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
526 favour of using stdout.
528 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
530 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
531 limit the number of results shown.
533 Add `notmuch count --output` option
535 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
536 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
539 New emacs UI features
540 ---------------------
542 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
544 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
545 starting with "tag:".
547 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
549 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
550 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
552 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
554 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
556 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
558 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
559 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
564 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
566 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
568 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
569 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
570 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
571 requires a database rebuild:
573 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
574 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
576 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
578 New collection of add-on tools
579 ------------------------------
581 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
582 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
583 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
586 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
588 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
589 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
590 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
592 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
593 ========================
595 New, general features
596 ---------------------
598 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
600 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
601 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
602 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
603 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
604 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
611 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
612 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
614 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
618 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
619 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
620 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
623 Python bindings changes
624 -----------------------
626 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
628 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
629 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
630 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
631 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
632 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
633 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
635 Ruby bindings changes
636 ---------------------
638 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
639 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
640 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
641 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
646 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
648 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
649 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
651 Reply formatting cleanup
652 ------------------------
654 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
655 MIME parts are being suppressed.
657 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
658 ========================
660 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
662 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
663 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
664 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
665 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
668 Improved Build system portability
670 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
671 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
672 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
674 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
676 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
678 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
680 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
681 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
682 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
684 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
685 ========================
687 Vim interface improvements
688 --------------------------
690 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
692 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
693 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
694 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
695 * fix from list reformatting in search view
696 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
698 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
700 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
701 * fix compose temp file name
703 Python Bindings changes
704 -----------------------
706 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
708 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
709 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
711 Build-System improvements
712 -------------------------
714 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
716 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
719 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
720 ==========================
725 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
727 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
728 people running gcc 4.4.5.
730 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
731 =======================
733 New, general features
734 ---------------------
736 Folder-based searching
738 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
739 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
740 storage). The syntax is as follows:
744 For example, one might use things such as:
750 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
751 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
753 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
754 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
755 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
756 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
758 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
759 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
760 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
763 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
764 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
766 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
770 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
771 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
772 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
774 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
776 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
777 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
779 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
780 notmuch will receive these tags.
782 New command-line features
783 -------------------------
785 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
787 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
788 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
790 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
792 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
793 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
794 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
796 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
798 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
799 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
800 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
801 which parts a signature part applies).
803 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
805 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
806 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
807 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
808 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
809 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
812 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
814 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
815 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
816 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
817 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
818 by translating it internally to the new call.
820 Performance improvements
821 ------------------------
823 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
825 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
826 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
827 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
829 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
830 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
832 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
834 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
835 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
836 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
838 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
839 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
840 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
841 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
843 Faster initial indexing
845 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
846 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
847 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
849 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
851 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
852 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
853 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
854 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
856 New emacs-interface features
857 ----------------------------
859 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
861 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
862 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
863 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
864 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
865 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
866 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
868 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
870 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
871 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
872 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
873 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
875 User-selectable From address
877 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
878 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
879 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
880 will prompt for the from address to use.
882 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
883 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
884 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
886 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
887 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
888 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
891 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
893 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
894 its parent, the subject is not shown.
896 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
898 When a message contains a line looking something like:
900 ----- Original Message -----
902 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
903 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
904 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
905 citations work much like conventional citations.
907 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
909 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
910 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
911 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
912 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
913 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
915 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
916 Notmuch After Tag Hook
918 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
920 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
921 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
922 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
924 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
926 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
927 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
928 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
929 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
930 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
932 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
934 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
937 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
939 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
941 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
943 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
946 Vim interface improvements
947 --------------------------
949 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
951 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
952 * Implementing archive in show view
953 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
954 * Add delete commands
957 Bindings improvements
958 ---------------------
960 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
962 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
963 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
965 Python bindings have been updated and extended
967 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
971 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
972 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
973 `list(Messages)` works now
974 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
976 These allow, for example:
980 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
982 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
988 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
990 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
993 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
995 New build-system features
996 -------------------------
998 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1000 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1001 the configure script from some other directory:
1008 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1010 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1011 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1012 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1013 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1014 manual invocation of configure.
1016 New test-suite feature
1017 ----------------------
1019 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1021 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1022 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1023 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1024 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1025 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1028 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1030 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1031 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1032 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1033 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1034 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1035 are updated to take advantage of this.
1037 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1039 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1040 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1041 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1042 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1048 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1050 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1051 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1052 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1054 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1056 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1058 to:user@elsewhere.com
1060 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1062 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1064 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1066 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1067 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1068 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1071 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1072 from the Received headers in some cases
1074 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1075 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1077 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1079 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1081 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1083 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1084 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1085 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1087 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1088 -------------------------
1090 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1092 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1093 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1094 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1096 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1098 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1099 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1100 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1103 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1105 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1106 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1107 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1108 fixed to avoid this bug.
1110 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1112 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1113 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1115 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1116 ========================
1118 New, general features
1119 ---------------------
1121 Maildir-flag synchronization
1123 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1124 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1133 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1135 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1136 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1137 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1138 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1140 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1141 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1142 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1143 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1146 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1148 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1149 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1150 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1152 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1153 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1155 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1156 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1158 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1159 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1160 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1162 New library features
1163 --------------------
1165 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1167 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1168 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1169 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1170 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1172 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1173 message with the new function:
1175 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1177 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1178 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1179 over all available filenames for a given message.
1181 New command-line features
1182 -------------------------
1184 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1186 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1187 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1188 access to the mail store itself.
1190 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1191 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1192 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1193 name of a script containing:
1195 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1197 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1198 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1204 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1206 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1208 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1210 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1211 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1212 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1213 now produces nothing).
1215 Emacs interface improvements
1216 ----------------------------
1218 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1220 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1222 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1224 Display current thread subject in a header line
1226 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1228 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1230 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1231 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1232 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1233 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1234 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1235 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1236 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1238 Vim interface improvements
1239 --------------------------
1241 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1243 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1244 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1250 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1252 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1253 ========================
1255 New command-line features
1256 -------------------------
1258 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1260 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1261 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1262 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1264 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1265 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1266 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1267 scripts. For example:
1269 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1270 <operations-on> "$file"
1273 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1275 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1276 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1277 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1278 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1279 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1280 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1282 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1284 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1285 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1286 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1287 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1289 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1291 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1292 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1293 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1294 default rather than Bcc.
1296 New library features
1297 --------------------
1299 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1301 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1302 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1307 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1309 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1310 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1311 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1312 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1313 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1314 notmuch customize interface.
1316 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1318 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1319 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1320 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1321 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1323 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1325 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1326 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1327 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1328 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1330 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1332 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1333 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1334 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1335 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1336 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1337 notmuch customize interface.
1339 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1341 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1342 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1343 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1344 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1345 notmuch customize interface.
1347 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1349 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1350 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1351 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1352 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1355 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1357 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1358 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1359 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1362 New build-system features
1363 -------------------------
1365 Various portability fixes have been applied
1367 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1368 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1369 more portable than ever before.
1371 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1373 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1374 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1375 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1377 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1378 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1379 automatically run ldconfig.
1381 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1382 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1383 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1385 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1386 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1387 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1388 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1390 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1392 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1393 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1394 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1395 used in the resulting Makefile.
1397 New test-suite features
1398 -----------------------
1400 New modularization of test suite
1402 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1403 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1404 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1405 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1406 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1407 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1408 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1409 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1411 New testing of emacs interface
1413 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1414 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1415 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1416 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1417 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1418 database via the FCC setting.
1423 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1425 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1426 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1427 persistent error of the form:
1429 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1431 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1432 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1434 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1436 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1437 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1438 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1440 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1442 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1443 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1444 parsing the notmuch results).
1446 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1448 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1451 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1452 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1453 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1458 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1460 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1461 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1462 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1463 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1464 the emacs interface.
1466 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1468 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1469 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1470 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1472 Python-binding fixes
1473 --------------------
1475 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1477 Debian-specific fixes
1478 ---------------------
1480 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1482 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1483 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1484 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1487 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1488 ==========================
1493 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1495 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1496 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1497 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1498 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1500 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1502 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1503 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1504 want notmuch to crash.
1509 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1511 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1512 directory does not exist
1517 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1519 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1520 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1522 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1523 ========================
1525 New command-line features
1526 -------------------------
1528 User-configurable tags for new messages
1530 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1531 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1532 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1533 to specify this value.
1535 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1537 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1538 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1539 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1541 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1543 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1544 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1546 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1548 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1549 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1550 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1551 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1552 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1555 Indication of author names that match a search
1557 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1558 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1559 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1560 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1561 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1562 messages in the thread are listed first.
1564 New: Python bindings
1565 --------------------
1567 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1568 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1569 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1570 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1572 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1573 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1574 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1577 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1578 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1579 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1581 Emacs interface improvements
1582 ----------------------------
1584 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1586 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1587 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1588 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1589 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1590 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1591 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1592 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1593 but without any of the disadvantages).
1595 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1596 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1597 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1600 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1601 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1602 instead running something like:
1604 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1606 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1607 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1608 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1611 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1613 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1614 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1615 tweaked by the user.
1617 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1618 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1619 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1622 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1623 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1624 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1627 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1629 This support currently relies on an external program,
1630 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1631 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1632 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1633 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1634 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1637 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1638 notmuch) is available via:
1640 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1642 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1643 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1644 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1646 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1648 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1649 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1650 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1651 making this automatic in a future release.
1653 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1655 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1656 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1657 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1658 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1659 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1660 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1663 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1665 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1666 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1667 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1669 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1671 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1672 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1673 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1675 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1676 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1677 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1678 other representation.
1680 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1681 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1684 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1686 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1687 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1688 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1690 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1691 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1692 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1694 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1696 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1697 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1698 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1699 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1700 to display the search result.
1702 More flexible handling of header visibility
1704 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1705 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1706 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1707 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1708 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1709 with the 'h' keybinding.
1711 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1712 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1713 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1715 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1717 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1719 Customizable formatting of search results
1721 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1722 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1723 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1725 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1727 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1729 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1734 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1736 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1737 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1738 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1739 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1745 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1747 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1748 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1750 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1752 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1753 accept are now all accepted.
1758 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1760 Better display of output from failed tests
1762 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1763 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1765 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1766 ========================
1768 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1769 detailed release notes this time!
1771 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1772 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1774 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1775 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1776 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1777 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1784 Better guessing of From: header
1786 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1787 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1788 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1789 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1790 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1793 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1795 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1796 guaranteed to match all messages.
1798 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1800 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1801 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1802 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1803 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1804 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1807 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1810 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1811 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1812 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1813 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1818 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1820 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1821 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1822 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1823 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1825 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1827 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1829 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1830 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1831 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1833 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1835 Previously, the user might see:
1837 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1841 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1843 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1844 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1845 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1846 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1848 Emacs client features
1849 ---------------------
1851 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1853 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1854 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1855 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1856 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1857 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1859 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1862 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1863 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1864 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1865 search with the '*' binding.
1867 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1869 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1870 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1873 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1875 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1876 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1877 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1879 Build-system features
1880 ---------------------
1882 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1884 Add support to configure for many standard options
1886 We include actual support for:
1888 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1890 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1892 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1893 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1895 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1896 separate "make install-emacs"
1898 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1900 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1901 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1902 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1904 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1907 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1908 ========================
1910 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1912 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1913 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1915 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1916 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1917 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1918 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1919 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1920 tags from messages in a thread.
1927 indent-tabs-mode: nil