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"
17 Command-Line Interface
18 ----------------------
20 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
21 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
22 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
23 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
24 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
30 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
32 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
34 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
35 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
36 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
38 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
40 It is now possible to embed newlines in
41 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
44 Search now uses the JSON format internally
46 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
47 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
49 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
50 user-specified formatting
52 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
53 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
54 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
55 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
56 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
58 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
59 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
61 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
62 ===========================
67 Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
68 compilation error for this contrib package.
70 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
71 ===========================
76 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
78 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
79 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
80 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
81 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
83 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
84 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
87 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
88 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
89 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
90 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
93 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
95 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
98 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
99 =========================
101 Command-Line Interface
102 ----------------------
106 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
107 for a reply message and full information about the original message
108 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
109 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
111 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
112 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
113 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
114 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
118 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
119 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
121 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
122 tag in your query, for example:
124 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
126 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
127 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
129 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
130 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
132 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
134 Raw show format changes
136 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
137 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
138 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
139 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
140 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
141 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
142 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
143 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
145 Listing configuration items
147 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
153 Changes to tagging interface
155 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
156 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
157 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
158 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
159 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
160 for more information.
162 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
163 may need to update in custom configurations.
165 Reply improvement using the JSON format
167 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
168 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
169 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
170 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
173 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
174 -----------------------------
176 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
177 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
178 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
179 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
180 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
181 contrib/ from now on.
186 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
187 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
189 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
190 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
192 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
193 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
194 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
196 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
197 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
199 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
200 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
201 returning the new database object or directory object.
208 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
209 compatible with go 1.
211 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
212 =========================
214 Command-Line Interface
215 ----------------------
219 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
220 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
221 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
222 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
224 Mail store folder/file ignore
226 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
227 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
228 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
230 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
231 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
233 Unified help and manual pages
235 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
236 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
239 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
241 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
242 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
250 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
251 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
252 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
253 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
255 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
257 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
258 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
260 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
263 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
264 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
265 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
267 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
269 should be changed to:
271 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
273 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
275 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
276 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
278 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
280 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
281 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
282 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
283 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
284 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
285 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
289 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
290 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
291 of Mailing List Archives.
293 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
295 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
296 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
299 Show view archiving key binding changes
301 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
302 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
303 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
304 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
305 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
308 Support text/calendar MIME type
310 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
313 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
315 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
316 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
317 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
318 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
320 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
322 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
323 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
324 messages blue by default in the search view.
328 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
329 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
336 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
339 Python bindings changes
340 -----------------------
342 Python 3.2 compatibility
344 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
346 Added missing unicode conversions
348 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
349 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
350 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
355 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
357 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
358 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
359 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
360 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
361 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
363 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
364 ===========================
369 Fix error handling in python bindings
371 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
372 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
373 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
374 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
376 Quote MML tags in replies
378 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
379 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
380 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
381 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
382 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
383 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
384 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
385 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
387 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
388 =========================
390 Command-Line Interface
391 ----------------------
395 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
396 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
397 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
398 importing new messages into the database.
400 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
402 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
403 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
404 sometimes. This is now fixed.
409 Automatic tag query optimization
411 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
412 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
413 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
415 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
417 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
418 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
419 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
424 Reduction of memory leaks
426 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
427 and fixed in this release.
434 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
435 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
436 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
439 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
441 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
442 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
443 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
446 Improvements in saved search management
448 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
449 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
450 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
452 Hooks for notmuch-hello
454 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
455 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
456 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
458 New face for crypto parts headers
460 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
461 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
462 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
465 Use space as default thousands separator
467 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
468 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
469 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
471 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
474 New function notmuch-show-advance
476 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
477 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
478 be bound to SPC with:
480 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
482 Various performance improvements
487 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
488 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
491 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
492 ===========================
497 Fix crash in python bindings
499 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
500 for some, but not all users.
502 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
503 ===========================
508 Fix `--help` argument
510 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
511 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
512 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
514 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
515 =========================
517 New build and testing features
518 ------------------------------
520 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
521 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
522 prerequisites is improved.
524 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
526 New command-line features
527 -------------------------
529 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
531 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
532 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
535 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
537 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
538 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
539 favour of using stdout.
541 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
543 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
544 limit the number of results shown.
546 Add `notmuch count --output` option
548 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
549 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
552 New emacs UI features
553 ---------------------
555 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
557 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
558 starting with "tag:".
560 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
562 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
563 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
565 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
567 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
569 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
571 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
572 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
577 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
579 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
581 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
582 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
583 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
584 requires a database rebuild:
586 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
587 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
589 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
591 New collection of add-on tools
592 ------------------------------
594 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
595 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
596 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
599 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
601 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
602 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
603 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
605 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
606 ========================
608 New, general features
609 ---------------------
611 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
613 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
614 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
615 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
616 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
617 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
624 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
625 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
627 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
631 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
632 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
633 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
636 Python bindings changes
637 -----------------------
639 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
641 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
642 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
643 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
644 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
645 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
646 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
648 Ruby bindings changes
649 ---------------------
651 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
652 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
653 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
654 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
659 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
661 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
662 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
664 Reply formatting cleanup
665 ------------------------
667 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
668 MIME parts are being suppressed.
670 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
671 ========================
673 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
675 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
676 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
677 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
678 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
681 Improved Build system portability
683 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
684 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
685 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
687 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
689 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
691 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
693 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
694 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
695 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
697 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
698 ========================
700 Vim interface improvements
701 --------------------------
703 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
705 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
706 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
707 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
708 * fix from list reformatting in search view
709 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
711 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
713 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
714 * fix compose temp file name
716 Python Bindings changes
717 -----------------------
719 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
721 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
722 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
724 Build-System improvements
725 -------------------------
727 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
729 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
732 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
733 ==========================
738 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
740 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
741 people running gcc 4.4.5.
743 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
744 =======================
746 New, general features
747 ---------------------
749 Folder-based searching
751 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
752 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
753 storage). The syntax is as follows:
757 For example, one might use things such as:
763 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
764 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
766 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
767 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
768 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
769 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
771 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
772 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
773 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
776 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
777 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
779 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
783 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
784 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
785 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
787 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
789 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
790 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
792 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
793 notmuch will receive these tags.
795 New command-line features
796 -------------------------
798 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
800 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
801 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
803 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
805 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
806 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
807 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
809 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
811 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
812 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
813 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
814 which parts a signature part applies).
816 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
818 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
819 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
820 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
821 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
822 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
825 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
827 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
828 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
829 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
830 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
831 by translating it internally to the new call.
833 Performance improvements
834 ------------------------
836 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
838 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
839 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
840 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
842 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
843 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
845 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
847 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
848 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
849 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
851 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
852 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
853 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
854 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
856 Faster initial indexing
858 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
859 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
860 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
862 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
864 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
865 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
866 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
867 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
869 New emacs-interface features
870 ----------------------------
872 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
874 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
875 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
876 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
877 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
878 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
879 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
881 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
883 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
884 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
885 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
886 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
888 User-selectable From address
890 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
891 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
892 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
893 will prompt for the from address to use.
895 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
896 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
897 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
899 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
900 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
901 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
904 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
906 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
907 its parent, the subject is not shown.
909 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
911 When a message contains a line looking something like:
913 ----- Original Message -----
915 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
916 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
917 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
918 citations work much like conventional citations.
920 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
922 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
923 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
924 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
925 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
926 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
928 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
929 Notmuch After Tag Hook
931 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
933 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
934 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
935 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
937 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
939 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
940 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
941 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
942 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
943 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
945 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
947 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
950 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
952 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
954 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
956 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
959 Vim interface improvements
960 --------------------------
962 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
964 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
965 * Implementing archive in show view
966 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
967 * Add delete commands
970 Bindings improvements
971 ---------------------
973 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
975 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
976 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
978 Python bindings have been updated and extended
980 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
984 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
985 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
986 `list(Messages)` works now
987 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
989 These allow, for example:
993 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
995 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1001 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1003 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1006 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1008 New build-system features
1009 -------------------------
1011 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1013 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1014 the configure script from some other directory:
1021 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1023 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1024 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1025 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1026 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1027 manual invocation of configure.
1029 New test-suite feature
1030 ----------------------
1032 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1034 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1035 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1036 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1037 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1038 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1041 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1043 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1044 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1045 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1046 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1047 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1048 are updated to take advantage of this.
1050 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1052 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1053 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1054 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1055 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1061 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1063 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1064 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1065 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1067 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1069 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1071 to:user@elsewhere.com
1073 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1075 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1077 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1079 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1080 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1081 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1084 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1085 from the Received headers in some cases
1087 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1088 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1090 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1092 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1094 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1096 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1097 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1098 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1100 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1101 -------------------------
1103 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1105 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1106 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1107 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1109 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1111 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1112 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1113 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1116 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1118 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1119 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1120 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1121 fixed to avoid this bug.
1123 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1125 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1126 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1128 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1129 ========================
1131 New, general features
1132 ---------------------
1134 Maildir-flag synchronization
1136 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1137 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1146 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1148 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1149 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1150 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1151 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1153 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1154 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1155 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1156 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1159 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1161 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1162 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1163 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1165 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1166 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1168 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1169 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1171 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1172 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1173 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1175 New library features
1176 --------------------
1178 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1180 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1181 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1182 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1183 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1185 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1186 message with the new function:
1188 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1190 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1191 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1192 over all available filenames for a given message.
1194 New command-line features
1195 -------------------------
1197 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1199 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1200 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1201 access to the mail store itself.
1203 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1204 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1205 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1206 name of a script containing:
1208 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1210 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1211 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1217 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1219 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1221 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1223 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1224 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1225 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1226 now produces nothing).
1228 Emacs interface improvements
1229 ----------------------------
1231 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1233 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1235 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1237 Display current thread subject in a header line
1239 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1241 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1243 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1244 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1245 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1246 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1247 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1248 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1249 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1251 Vim interface improvements
1252 --------------------------
1254 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1256 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1257 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1263 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1265 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1266 ========================
1268 New command-line features
1269 -------------------------
1271 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1273 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1274 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1275 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1277 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1278 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1279 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1280 scripts. For example:
1282 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1283 <operations-on> "$file"
1286 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1288 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1289 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1290 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1291 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1292 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1293 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1295 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1297 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1298 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1299 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1300 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1302 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1304 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1305 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1306 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1307 default rather than Bcc.
1309 New library features
1310 --------------------
1312 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1314 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1315 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1320 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1322 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1323 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1324 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1325 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1326 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1327 notmuch customize interface.
1329 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1331 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1332 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1333 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1334 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1336 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1338 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1339 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1340 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1341 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1343 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1345 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1346 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1347 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1348 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1349 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1350 notmuch customize interface.
1352 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1354 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1355 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1356 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1357 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1358 notmuch customize interface.
1360 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1362 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1363 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1364 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1365 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1368 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1370 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1371 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1372 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1375 New build-system features
1376 -------------------------
1378 Various portability fixes have been applied
1380 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1381 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1382 more portable than ever before.
1384 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1386 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1387 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1388 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1390 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1391 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1392 automatically run ldconfig.
1394 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1395 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1396 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1398 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1399 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1400 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1401 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1403 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1405 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1406 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1407 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1408 used in the resulting Makefile.
1410 New test-suite features
1411 -----------------------
1413 New modularization of test suite
1415 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1416 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1417 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1418 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1419 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1420 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1421 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1422 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1424 New testing of emacs interface
1426 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1427 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1428 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1429 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1430 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1431 database via the FCC setting.
1436 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1438 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1439 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1440 persistent error of the form:
1442 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1444 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1445 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1447 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1449 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1450 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1451 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1453 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1455 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1456 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1457 parsing the notmuch results).
1459 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1461 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1464 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1465 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1466 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1471 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1473 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1474 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1475 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1476 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1477 the emacs interface.
1479 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1481 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1482 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1483 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1485 Python-binding fixes
1486 --------------------
1488 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1490 Debian-specific fixes
1491 ---------------------
1493 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1495 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1496 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1497 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1500 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1501 ==========================
1506 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1508 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1509 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1510 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1511 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1513 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1515 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1516 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1517 want notmuch to crash.
1522 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1524 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1525 directory does not exist
1530 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1532 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1533 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1535 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1536 ========================
1538 New command-line features
1539 -------------------------
1541 User-configurable tags for new messages
1543 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1544 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1545 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1546 to specify this value.
1548 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1550 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1551 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1552 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1554 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1556 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1557 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1559 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1561 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1562 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1563 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1564 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1565 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1568 Indication of author names that match a search
1570 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1571 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1572 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1573 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1574 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1575 messages in the thread are listed first.
1577 New: Python bindings
1578 --------------------
1580 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1581 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1582 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1583 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1585 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1586 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1587 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1590 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1591 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1592 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1594 Emacs interface improvements
1595 ----------------------------
1597 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1599 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1600 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1601 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1602 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1603 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1604 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1605 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1606 but without any of the disadvantages).
1608 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1609 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1610 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1613 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1614 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1615 instead running something like:
1617 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1619 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1620 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1621 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1624 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1626 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1627 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1628 tweaked by the user.
1630 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1631 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1632 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1635 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1636 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1637 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1640 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1642 This support currently relies on an external program,
1643 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1644 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1645 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1646 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1647 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1650 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1651 notmuch) is available via:
1653 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1655 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1656 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1657 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1659 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1661 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1662 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1663 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1664 making this automatic in a future release.
1666 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1668 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1669 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1670 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1671 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1672 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1673 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1676 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1678 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1679 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1680 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1682 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1684 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1685 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1686 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1688 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1689 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1690 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1691 other representation.
1693 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1694 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1697 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1699 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1700 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1701 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1703 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1704 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1705 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1707 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1709 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1710 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1711 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1712 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1713 to display the search result.
1715 More flexible handling of header visibility
1717 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1718 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1719 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1720 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1721 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1722 with the 'h' keybinding.
1724 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1725 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1726 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1728 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1730 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1732 Customizable formatting of search results
1734 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1735 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1736 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1738 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1740 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1742 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1747 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1749 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1750 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1751 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1752 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1758 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1760 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1761 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1763 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1765 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1766 accept are now all accepted.
1771 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1773 Better display of output from failed tests
1775 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1776 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1778 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1779 ========================
1781 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1782 detailed release notes this time!
1784 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1785 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1787 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1788 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1789 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1790 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1797 Better guessing of From: header
1799 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1800 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1801 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1802 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1803 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1806 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1808 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1809 guaranteed to match all messages.
1811 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1813 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1814 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1815 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1816 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1817 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1820 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1823 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1824 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1825 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1826 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1831 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1833 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1834 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1835 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1836 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1838 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1840 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1842 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1843 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1844 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1846 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1848 Previously, the user might see:
1850 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1854 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1856 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1857 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1858 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1859 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1861 Emacs client features
1862 ---------------------
1864 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1866 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1867 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1868 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1869 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1870 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1872 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1875 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1876 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1877 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1878 search with the '*' binding.
1880 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1882 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1883 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1886 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1888 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1889 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1890 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1892 Build-system features
1893 ---------------------
1895 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1897 Add support to configure for many standard options
1899 We include actual support for:
1901 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1903 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1905 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1906 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1908 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1909 separate "make install-emacs"
1911 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1913 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1914 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1915 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1917 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1920 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1921 ========================
1923 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1925 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1926 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1928 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1929 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1930 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1931 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1932 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1933 tags from messages in a thread.
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