1 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2 =========================
4 Internal test framework changes
5 -------------------------------
7 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
8 build failures in non-interactive environments.
10 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
11 =========================
16 Date range search support
18 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
19 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
20 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
21 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
22 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
25 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
27 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
28 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
29 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
30 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
31 but may be removed in a future release.
33 Command-Line Interface
34 ----------------------
36 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
38 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
39 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
41 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
43 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
44 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
45 officially deprecated.
47 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
49 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
50 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
51 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
53 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
55 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
56 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
59 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
60 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
63 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
65 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
66 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
67 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
69 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
71 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
72 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
73 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
75 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
77 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
78 output separated by null characters rather than newline
79 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
80 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
85 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
87 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
88 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
89 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
90 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
92 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
94 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
95 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
96 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
97 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
98 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
99 the behavior of this, see
100 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
101 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
103 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
104 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
105 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
107 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
109 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
110 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
113 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
115 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
116 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
117 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
118 simply displayed in place of the message.
120 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
122 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
123 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
125 Improved text/calendar content handling
127 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
128 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
129 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
130 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
132 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
134 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
135 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
136 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
137 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
139 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
141 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
142 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
143 for HTML email containing images.
145 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
147 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
149 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
151 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
154 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
156 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
157 the point where it was.
159 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
161 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
162 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
163 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
164 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
165 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
167 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
169 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
170 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
171 thread instead of the message id.
173 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
174 -----------------------------
176 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
177 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
178 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
179 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
180 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
181 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
182 further details and installation.
187 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
189 Internal test framework changes
190 -------------------------------
192 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
194 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
195 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
196 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
197 can result in buggy behavior.
199 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
200 =========================
205 Maildir tag synchronization
207 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
208 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
209 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
210 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
211 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
212 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
215 Command-Line Interface
216 ----------------------
218 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
219 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
220 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
221 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
222 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
228 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
230 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
232 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
233 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
234 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
236 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
238 It is now possible to embed newlines in
239 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
242 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
244 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
245 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
246 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
247 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
248 inside the result or message.
250 Search now uses the JSON format internally
252 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
253 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
255 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
256 user-specified formatting
258 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
259 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
260 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
261 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
262 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
264 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
265 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
267 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
268 ===========================
273 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
274 compilation error for this contrib package.
276 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
277 ===========================
282 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
284 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
285 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
286 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
287 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
289 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
290 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
293 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
294 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
295 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
296 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
299 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
301 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
304 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
305 =========================
307 Command-Line Interface
308 ----------------------
312 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
313 for a reply message and full information about the original message
314 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
315 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
317 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
318 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
319 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
320 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
324 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
325 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
327 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
328 tag in your query, for example:
330 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
332 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
333 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
335 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
336 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
338 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
340 Raw show format changes
342 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
343 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
344 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
345 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
346 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
347 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
348 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
349 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
351 Listing configuration items
353 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
359 Changes to tagging interface
361 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
362 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
363 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
364 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
365 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
366 for more information.
368 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
369 may need to update in custom configurations.
371 Reply improvement using the JSON format
373 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
374 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
375 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
376 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
379 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
380 -----------------------------
382 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
383 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
384 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
385 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
386 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
387 contrib/ from now on.
392 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
393 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
395 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
396 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
398 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
399 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
400 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
402 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
403 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
405 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
406 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
407 returning the new database object or directory object.
414 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
415 compatible with go 1.
417 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
418 =========================
420 Command-Line Interface
421 ----------------------
425 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
426 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
427 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
428 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
430 Mail store folder/file ignore
432 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
433 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
434 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
436 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
437 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
439 Unified help and manual pages
441 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
442 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
445 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
447 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
448 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
456 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
457 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
458 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
459 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
461 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
463 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
464 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
466 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
469 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
470 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
471 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
473 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
475 should be changed to:
477 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
479 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
481 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
482 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
484 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
486 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
487 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
488 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
489 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
490 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
491 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
495 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
496 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
497 of Mailing List Archives.
499 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
501 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
502 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
505 Show view archiving key binding changes
507 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
508 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
509 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
510 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
511 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
514 Support text/calendar MIME type
516 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
519 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
521 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
522 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
523 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
524 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
526 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
528 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
529 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
530 messages blue by default in the search view.
534 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
535 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
542 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
545 Python bindings changes
546 -----------------------
548 Python 3.2 compatibility
550 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
552 Added missing unicode conversions
554 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
555 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
556 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
561 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
563 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
564 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
565 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
566 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
567 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
569 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
570 ===========================
575 Fix error handling in python bindings
577 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
578 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
579 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
580 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
582 Quote MML tags in replies
584 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
585 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
586 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
587 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
588 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
589 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
590 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
591 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
593 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
594 =========================
596 Command-Line Interface
597 ----------------------
601 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
602 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
603 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
604 importing new messages into the database.
606 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
608 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
609 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
610 sometimes. This is now fixed.
615 Automatic tag query optimization
617 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
618 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
619 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
621 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
623 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
624 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
625 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
630 Reduction of memory leaks
632 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
633 and fixed in this release.
640 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
641 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
642 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
645 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
647 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
648 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
649 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
652 Improvements in saved search management
654 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
655 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
656 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
658 Hooks for notmuch-hello
660 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
661 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
662 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
664 New face for crypto parts headers
666 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
667 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
668 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
671 Use space as default thousands separator
673 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
674 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
675 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
677 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
680 New function notmuch-show-advance
682 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
683 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
684 be bound to SPC with:
686 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
688 Various performance improvements
693 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
694 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
697 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
698 ===========================
703 Fix crash in python bindings
705 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
706 for some, but not all users.
708 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
709 ===========================
714 Fix `--help` argument
716 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
717 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
718 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
720 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
721 =========================
723 New build and testing features
724 ------------------------------
726 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
727 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
728 prerequisites is improved.
730 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
732 New command-line features
733 -------------------------
735 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
737 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
738 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
741 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
743 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
744 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
745 favour of using stdout.
747 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
749 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
750 limit the number of results shown.
752 Add `notmuch count --output` option
754 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
755 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
758 New emacs UI features
759 ---------------------
761 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
763 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
764 starting with "tag:".
766 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
768 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
769 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
771 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
773 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
775 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
777 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
778 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
783 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
785 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
787 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
788 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
789 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
790 requires a database rebuild:
792 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
793 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
795 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
797 New collection of add-on tools
798 ------------------------------
800 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
801 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
802 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
805 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
807 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
808 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
809 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
811 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
812 ========================
814 New, general features
815 ---------------------
817 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
819 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
820 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
821 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
822 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
823 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
830 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
831 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
833 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
837 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
838 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
839 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
842 Python bindings changes
843 -----------------------
845 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
847 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
848 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
849 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
850 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
851 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
852 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
854 Ruby bindings changes
855 ---------------------
857 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
858 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
859 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
860 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
865 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
867 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
868 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
870 Reply formatting cleanup
871 ------------------------
873 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
874 MIME parts are being suppressed.
876 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
877 ========================
879 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
881 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
882 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
883 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
884 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
887 Improved Build system portability
889 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
890 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
891 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
893 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
895 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
897 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
899 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
900 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
901 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
903 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
904 ========================
906 Vim interface improvements
907 --------------------------
909 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
911 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
912 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
913 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
914 * fix from list reformatting in search view
915 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
917 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
919 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
920 * fix compose temp file name
922 Python Bindings changes
923 -----------------------
925 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
927 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
928 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
930 Build-System improvements
931 -------------------------
933 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
935 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
938 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
939 ==========================
944 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
946 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
947 people running gcc 4.4.5.
949 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
950 =======================
952 New, general features
953 ---------------------
955 Folder-based searching
957 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
958 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
959 storage). The syntax is as follows:
963 For example, one might use things such as:
969 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
970 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
972 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
973 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
974 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
975 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
977 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
978 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
979 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
982 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
983 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
985 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
989 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
990 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
991 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
993 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
995 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
996 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
998 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
999 notmuch will receive these tags.
1001 New command-line features
1002 -------------------------
1004 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1006 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1007 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1009 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1011 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1012 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1013 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1015 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1017 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1018 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1019 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1020 which parts a signature part applies).
1022 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1024 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1025 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1026 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1027 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1028 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1031 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1033 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1034 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1035 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1036 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1037 by translating it internally to the new call.
1039 Performance improvements
1040 ------------------------
1042 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1044 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1045 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1046 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1048 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1049 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1051 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1053 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1054 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1055 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1057 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1058 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1059 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1060 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1062 Faster initial indexing
1064 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1065 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1066 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1068 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1070 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1071 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1072 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1073 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1075 New emacs-interface features
1076 ----------------------------
1078 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1080 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1081 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1082 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1083 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1084 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1085 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1087 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1089 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1090 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1091 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1092 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1094 User-selectable From address
1096 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1097 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1098 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1099 will prompt for the from address to use.
1101 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1102 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1103 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1105 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1106 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1107 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1110 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1112 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1113 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1115 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1117 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1119 ----- Original Message -----
1121 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1122 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1123 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1124 citations work much like conventional citations.
1126 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1128 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1129 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1130 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1131 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1132 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1134 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1135 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1137 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1139 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1140 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1141 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1143 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1145 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1146 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1147 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1148 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1149 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1151 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1153 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1156 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1158 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1160 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1162 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1165 Vim interface improvements
1166 --------------------------
1168 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1170 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1171 * Implementing archive in show view
1172 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1173 * Add delete commands
1176 Bindings improvements
1177 ---------------------
1179 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1181 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1182 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1184 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1186 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1190 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1191 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1192 `list(Messages)` works now
1193 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1195 These allow, for example:
1197 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1199 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1201 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1207 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1209 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1212 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1214 New build-system features
1215 -------------------------
1217 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1219 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1220 the configure script from some other directory:
1227 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1229 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1230 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1231 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1232 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1233 manual invocation of configure.
1235 New test-suite feature
1236 ----------------------
1238 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1240 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1241 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1242 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1243 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1244 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1247 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1249 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1250 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1251 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1252 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1253 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1254 are updated to take advantage of this.
1256 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1258 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1259 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1260 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1261 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1267 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1269 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1270 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1271 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1273 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1275 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1277 to:user@elsewhere.com
1279 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1281 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1283 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1285 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1286 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1287 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1290 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1291 from the Received headers in some cases
1293 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1294 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1296 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1298 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1300 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1302 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1303 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1304 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1306 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1307 -------------------------
1309 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1311 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1312 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1313 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1315 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1317 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1318 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1319 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1322 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1324 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1325 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1326 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1327 fixed to avoid this bug.
1329 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1331 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1332 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1334 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1335 ========================
1337 New, general features
1338 ---------------------
1340 Maildir-flag synchronization
1342 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1343 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1352 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1354 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1355 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1356 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1357 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1359 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1360 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1361 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1362 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1365 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1367 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1368 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1369 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1371 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1372 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1374 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1375 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1377 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1378 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1379 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1381 New library features
1382 --------------------
1384 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1386 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1387 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1388 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1389 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1391 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1392 message with the new function:
1394 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1396 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1397 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1398 over all available filenames for a given message.
1400 New command-line features
1401 -------------------------
1403 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1405 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1406 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1407 access to the mail store itself.
1409 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1410 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1411 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1412 name of a script containing:
1414 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1416 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1417 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1423 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1425 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1427 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1429 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1430 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1431 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1432 now produces nothing).
1434 Emacs interface improvements
1435 ----------------------------
1437 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1439 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1441 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1443 Display current thread subject in a header line
1445 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1447 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1449 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1450 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1451 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1452 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1453 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1454 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1455 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1457 Vim interface improvements
1458 --------------------------
1460 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1462 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1463 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1469 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1471 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1472 ========================
1474 New command-line features
1475 -------------------------
1477 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1479 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1480 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1481 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1483 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1484 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1485 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1486 scripts. For example:
1488 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1489 <operations-on> "$file"
1492 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1494 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1495 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1496 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1497 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1498 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1499 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1501 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1503 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1504 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1505 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1506 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1508 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1510 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1511 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1512 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1513 default rather than Bcc.
1515 New library features
1516 --------------------
1518 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1520 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1521 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1526 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1528 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1529 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1530 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1531 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1532 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1533 notmuch customize interface.
1535 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1537 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1538 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1539 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1540 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1542 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1544 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1545 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1546 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1547 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1549 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1551 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1552 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1553 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1554 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1555 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1556 notmuch customize interface.
1558 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1560 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1561 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1562 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1563 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1564 notmuch customize interface.
1566 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1568 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1569 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1570 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1571 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1574 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1576 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1577 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1578 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1581 New build-system features
1582 -------------------------
1584 Various portability fixes have been applied
1586 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1587 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1588 more portable than ever before.
1590 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1592 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1593 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1594 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1596 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1597 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1598 automatically run ldconfig.
1600 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1601 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1602 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1604 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1605 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1606 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1607 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1609 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1611 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1612 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1613 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1614 used in the resulting Makefile.
1616 New test-suite features
1617 -----------------------
1619 New modularization of test suite
1621 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1622 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1623 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1624 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1625 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1626 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1627 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1628 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1630 New testing of emacs interface
1632 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1633 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1634 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1635 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1636 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1637 database via the FCC setting.
1642 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1644 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1645 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1646 persistent error of the form:
1648 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1650 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1651 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1653 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1655 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1656 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1657 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1659 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1661 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1662 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1663 parsing the notmuch results).
1665 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1667 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1670 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1671 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1672 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1677 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1679 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1680 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1681 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1682 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1683 the emacs interface.
1685 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1687 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1688 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1689 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1691 Python-binding fixes
1692 --------------------
1694 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1696 Debian-specific fixes
1697 ---------------------
1699 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1701 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1702 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1703 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1706 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1707 ==========================
1712 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1714 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1715 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1716 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1717 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1719 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1721 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1722 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1723 want notmuch to crash.
1728 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1730 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1731 directory does not exist
1736 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1738 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1739 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1741 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1742 ========================
1744 New command-line features
1745 -------------------------
1747 User-configurable tags for new messages
1749 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1750 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1751 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1752 to specify this value.
1754 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1756 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1757 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1758 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1760 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1762 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1763 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1765 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1767 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1768 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1769 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1770 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1771 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1774 Indication of author names that match a search
1776 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1777 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1778 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1779 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1780 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1781 messages in the thread are listed first.
1783 New: Python bindings
1784 --------------------
1786 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1787 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1788 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1789 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1791 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1792 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1793 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1796 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1797 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1798 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1800 Emacs interface improvements
1801 ----------------------------
1803 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1805 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1806 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1807 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1808 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1809 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1810 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1811 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1812 but without any of the disadvantages).
1814 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1815 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1816 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1819 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1820 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1821 instead running something like:
1823 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1825 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1826 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1827 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1830 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1832 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1833 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1834 tweaked by the user.
1836 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1837 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1838 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1841 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1842 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1843 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1846 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1848 This support currently relies on an external program,
1849 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1850 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1851 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1852 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1853 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1856 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1857 notmuch) is available via:
1859 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1861 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1862 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1863 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1865 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1867 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1868 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1869 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1870 making this automatic in a future release.
1872 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1874 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1875 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1876 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1877 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1878 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1879 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1882 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1884 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1885 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1886 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1888 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1890 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1891 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1892 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1894 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1895 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1896 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1897 other representation.
1899 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1900 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1903 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1905 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1906 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1907 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1909 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1910 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1911 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1913 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1915 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1916 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1917 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1918 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1919 to display the search result.
1921 More flexible handling of header visibility
1923 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1924 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1925 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1926 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1927 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1928 with the 'h' keybinding.
1930 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1931 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1932 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1934 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1936 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1938 Customizable formatting of search results
1940 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1941 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1942 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1944 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1946 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1948 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1953 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1955 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1956 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1957 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1958 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1964 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1966 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1967 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1969 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1971 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1972 accept are now all accepted.
1977 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1979 Better display of output from failed tests
1981 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1982 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1984 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1985 ========================
1987 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1988 detailed release notes this time!
1990 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1991 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1993 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1994 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1995 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1996 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2003 Better guessing of From: header
2005 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2006 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2007 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2008 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2009 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2012 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2014 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2015 guaranteed to match all messages.
2017 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2019 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2020 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2021 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2022 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2023 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2026 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2029 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2030 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2031 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2032 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2037 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2039 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2040 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2041 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2042 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2044 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2046 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2048 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2049 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2050 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2052 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2054 Previously, the user might see:
2056 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2060 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2062 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2063 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2064 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2065 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2067 Emacs client features
2068 ---------------------
2070 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2072 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2073 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2074 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2075 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2076 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2078 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2081 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2082 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2083 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2084 search with the '*' binding.
2086 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2088 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2089 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2092 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2094 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2095 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2096 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2098 Build-system features
2099 ---------------------
2101 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2103 Add support to configure for many standard options
2105 We include actual support for:
2107 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2109 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2111 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2112 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2114 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2115 separate "make install-emacs"
2117 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2119 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2120 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2121 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2123 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2126 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2127 ========================
2129 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2131 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2132 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2134 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2135 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2136 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2137 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2138 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2139 tags from messages in a thread.
2146 indent-tabs-mode: nil