1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
9 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
10 =========================
12 Internal test framework changes
13 -------------------------------
15 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
16 build failures in non-interactive environments.
18 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
19 =========================
24 Date range search support
26 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
27 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
28 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
29 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
30 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
33 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
35 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
36 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
37 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
38 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
39 but may be removed in a future release.
41 Command-Line Interface
42 ----------------------
44 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
46 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
47 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
49 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
51 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
52 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
53 officially deprecated.
55 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
57 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
58 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
59 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
61 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
63 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
64 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
67 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
68 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
71 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
73 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
74 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
75 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
77 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
79 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
80 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
81 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
83 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
85 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
86 output separated by null characters rather than newline
87 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
88 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
93 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
95 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
96 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
97 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
98 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
100 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
102 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
103 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
104 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
105 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
106 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
107 the behavior of this, see
108 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
109 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
111 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
112 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
113 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
115 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
117 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
118 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
121 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
123 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
124 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
125 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
126 simply displayed in place of the message.
128 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
130 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
131 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
133 Improved text/calendar content handling
135 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
136 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
137 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
138 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
140 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
142 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
143 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
144 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
145 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
147 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
149 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
150 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
151 for HTML email containing images.
153 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
155 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
157 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
159 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
162 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
164 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
165 the point where it was.
167 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
169 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
170 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
171 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
172 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
173 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
175 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
177 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
178 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
179 thread instead of the message id.
181 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
182 -----------------------------
184 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
185 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
186 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
187 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
188 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
189 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
190 further details and installation.
195 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
197 Internal test framework changes
198 -------------------------------
200 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
202 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
203 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
204 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
205 can result in buggy behavior.
207 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
208 =========================
213 Maildir tag synchronization
215 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
216 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
217 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
218 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
219 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
220 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
223 Command-Line Interface
224 ----------------------
226 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
227 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
228 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
229 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
230 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
236 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
238 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
240 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
241 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
242 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
244 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
246 It is now possible to embed newlines in
247 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
250 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
252 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
253 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
254 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
255 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
256 inside the result or message.
258 Search now uses the JSON format internally
260 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
261 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
263 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
264 user-specified formatting
266 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
267 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
268 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
269 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
270 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
272 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
273 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
275 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
276 ===========================
281 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
282 compilation error for this contrib package.
284 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
285 ===========================
290 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
292 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
293 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
294 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
295 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
297 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
298 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
301 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
302 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
303 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
304 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
307 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
309 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
312 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
313 =========================
315 Command-Line Interface
316 ----------------------
320 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
321 for a reply message and full information about the original message
322 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
323 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
325 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
326 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
327 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
328 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
332 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
333 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
335 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
336 tag in your query, for example:
338 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
340 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
341 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
343 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
344 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
346 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
348 Raw show format changes
350 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
351 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
352 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
353 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
354 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
355 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
356 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
357 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
359 Listing configuration items
361 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
367 Changes to tagging interface
369 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
370 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
371 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
372 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
373 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
374 for more information.
376 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
377 may need to update in custom configurations.
379 Reply improvement using the JSON format
381 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
382 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
383 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
384 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
387 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
388 -----------------------------
390 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
391 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
392 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
393 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
394 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
395 contrib/ from now on.
400 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
401 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
403 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
404 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
406 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
407 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
408 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
410 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
411 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
413 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
414 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
415 returning the new database object or directory object.
422 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
423 compatible with go 1.
425 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
426 =========================
428 Command-Line Interface
429 ----------------------
433 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
434 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
435 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
436 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
438 Mail store folder/file ignore
440 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
441 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
442 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
444 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
445 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
447 Unified help and manual pages
449 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
450 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
453 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
455 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
456 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
464 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
465 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
466 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
467 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
469 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
471 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
472 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
474 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
477 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
478 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
479 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
481 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
483 should be changed to:
485 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
487 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
489 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
490 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
492 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
494 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
495 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
496 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
497 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
498 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
499 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
503 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
504 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
505 of Mailing List Archives.
507 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
509 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
510 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
513 Show view archiving key binding changes
515 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
516 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
517 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
518 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
519 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
522 Support text/calendar MIME type
524 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
527 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
529 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
530 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
531 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
532 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
534 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
536 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
537 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
538 messages blue by default in the search view.
542 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
543 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
550 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
553 Python bindings changes
554 -----------------------
556 Python 3.2 compatibility
558 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
560 Added missing unicode conversions
562 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
563 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
564 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
569 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
571 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
572 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
573 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
574 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
575 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
577 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
578 ===========================
583 Fix error handling in python bindings
585 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
586 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
587 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
588 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
590 Quote MML tags in replies
592 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
593 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
594 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
595 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
596 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
597 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
598 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
599 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
601 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
602 =========================
604 Command-Line Interface
605 ----------------------
609 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
610 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
611 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
612 importing new messages into the database.
614 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
616 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
617 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
618 sometimes. This is now fixed.
623 Automatic tag query optimization
625 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
626 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
627 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
629 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
631 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
632 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
633 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
638 Reduction of memory leaks
640 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
641 and fixed in this release.
648 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
649 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
650 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
653 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
655 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
656 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
657 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
660 Improvements in saved search management
662 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
663 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
664 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
666 Hooks for notmuch-hello
668 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
669 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
670 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
672 New face for crypto parts headers
674 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
675 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
676 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
679 Use space as default thousands separator
681 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
682 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
683 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
685 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
688 New function notmuch-show-advance
690 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
691 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
692 be bound to SPC with:
694 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
696 Various performance improvements
701 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
702 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
705 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
706 ===========================
711 Fix crash in python bindings
713 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
714 for some, but not all users.
716 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
717 ===========================
722 Fix `--help` argument
724 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
725 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
726 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
728 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
729 =========================
731 New build and testing features
732 ------------------------------
734 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
735 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
736 prerequisites is improved.
738 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
740 New command-line features
741 -------------------------
743 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
745 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
746 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
749 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
751 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
752 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
753 favour of using stdout.
755 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
757 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
758 limit the number of results shown.
760 Add `notmuch count --output` option
762 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
763 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
766 New emacs UI features
767 ---------------------
769 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
771 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
772 starting with "tag:".
774 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
776 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
777 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
779 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
781 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
783 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
785 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
786 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
791 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
793 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
795 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
796 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
797 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
798 requires a database rebuild:
800 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
801 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
803 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
805 New collection of add-on tools
806 ------------------------------
808 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
809 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
810 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
813 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
815 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
816 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
817 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
819 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
820 ========================
822 New, general features
823 ---------------------
825 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
827 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
828 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
829 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
830 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
831 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
838 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
839 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
841 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
845 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
846 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
847 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
850 Python bindings changes
851 -----------------------
853 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
855 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
856 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
857 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
858 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
859 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
860 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
862 Ruby bindings changes
863 ---------------------
865 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
866 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
867 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
868 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
873 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
875 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
876 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
878 Reply formatting cleanup
879 ------------------------
881 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
882 MIME parts are being suppressed.
884 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
885 ========================
887 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
889 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
890 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
891 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
892 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
895 Improved Build system portability
897 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
898 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
899 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
901 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
903 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
905 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
907 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
908 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
909 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
911 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
912 ========================
914 Vim interface improvements
915 --------------------------
917 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
919 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
920 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
921 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
922 * fix from list reformatting in search view
923 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
925 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
927 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
928 * fix compose temp file name
930 Python Bindings changes
931 -----------------------
933 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
935 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
936 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
938 Build-System improvements
939 -------------------------
941 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
943 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
946 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
947 ==========================
952 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
954 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
955 people running gcc 4.4.5.
957 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
958 =======================
960 New, general features
961 ---------------------
963 Folder-based searching
965 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
966 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
967 storage). The syntax is as follows:
971 For example, one might use things such as:
977 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
978 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
980 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
981 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
982 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
983 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
985 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
986 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
987 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
990 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
991 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
993 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
997 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
998 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
999 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1001 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1003 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1004 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1006 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1007 notmuch will receive these tags.
1009 New command-line features
1010 -------------------------
1012 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1014 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1015 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1017 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1019 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1020 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1021 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1023 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1025 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1026 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1027 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1028 which parts a signature part applies).
1030 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1032 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1033 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1034 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1035 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1036 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1039 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1041 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1042 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1043 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1044 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1045 by translating it internally to the new call.
1047 Performance improvements
1048 ------------------------
1050 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1052 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1053 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1054 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1056 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1057 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1059 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1061 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1062 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1063 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1065 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1066 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1067 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1068 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1070 Faster initial indexing
1072 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1073 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1074 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1076 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1078 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1079 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1080 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1081 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1083 New emacs-interface features
1084 ----------------------------
1086 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1088 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1089 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1090 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1091 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1092 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1093 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1095 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1097 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1098 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1099 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1100 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1102 User-selectable From address
1104 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1105 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1106 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1107 will prompt for the from address to use.
1109 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1110 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1111 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1113 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1114 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1115 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1118 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1120 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1121 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1123 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1125 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1127 ----- Original Message -----
1129 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1130 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1131 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1132 citations work much like conventional citations.
1134 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1136 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1137 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1138 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1139 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1140 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1142 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1143 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1145 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1147 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1148 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1149 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1151 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1153 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1154 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1155 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1156 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1157 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1159 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1161 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1164 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1166 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1168 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1170 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1173 Vim interface improvements
1174 --------------------------
1176 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1178 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1179 * Implementing archive in show view
1180 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1181 * Add delete commands
1184 Bindings improvements
1185 ---------------------
1187 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1189 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1190 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1192 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1194 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1198 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1199 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1200 `list(Messages)` works now
1201 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1203 These allow, for example:
1205 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1207 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1209 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1215 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1217 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1220 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1222 New build-system features
1223 -------------------------
1225 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1227 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1228 the configure script from some other directory:
1235 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1237 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1238 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1239 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1240 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1241 manual invocation of configure.
1243 New test-suite feature
1244 ----------------------
1246 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1248 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1249 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1250 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1251 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1252 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1255 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1257 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1258 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1259 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1260 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1261 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1262 are updated to take advantage of this.
1264 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1266 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1267 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1268 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1269 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1275 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1277 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1278 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1279 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1281 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1283 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1285 to:user@elsewhere.com
1287 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1289 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1291 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1293 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1294 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1295 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1298 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1299 from the Received headers in some cases
1301 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1302 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1304 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1306 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1308 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1310 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1311 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1312 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1314 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1315 -------------------------
1317 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1319 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1320 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1321 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1323 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1325 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1326 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1327 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1330 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1332 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1333 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1334 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1335 fixed to avoid this bug.
1337 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1339 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1340 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1342 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1343 ========================
1345 New, general features
1346 ---------------------
1348 Maildir-flag synchronization
1350 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1351 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1360 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1362 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1363 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1364 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1365 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1367 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1368 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1369 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1370 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1373 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1375 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1376 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1377 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1379 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1380 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1382 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1383 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1385 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1386 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1387 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1389 New library features
1390 --------------------
1392 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1394 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1395 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1396 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1397 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1399 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1400 message with the new function:
1402 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1404 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1405 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1406 over all available filenames for a given message.
1408 New command-line features
1409 -------------------------
1411 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1413 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1414 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1415 access to the mail store itself.
1417 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1418 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1419 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1420 name of a script containing:
1422 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1424 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1425 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1431 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1433 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1435 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1437 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1438 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1439 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1440 now produces nothing).
1442 Emacs interface improvements
1443 ----------------------------
1445 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1447 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1449 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1451 Display current thread subject in a header line
1453 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1455 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1457 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1458 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1459 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1460 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1461 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1462 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1463 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1465 Vim interface improvements
1466 --------------------------
1468 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1470 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1471 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1477 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1479 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1480 ========================
1482 New command-line features
1483 -------------------------
1485 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1487 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1488 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1489 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1491 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1492 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1493 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1494 scripts. For example:
1496 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1497 <operations-on> "$file"
1500 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1502 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1503 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1504 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1505 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1506 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1507 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1509 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1511 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1512 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1513 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1514 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1516 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1518 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1519 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1520 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1521 default rather than Bcc.
1523 New library features
1524 --------------------
1526 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1528 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1529 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1534 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1536 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1537 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1538 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1539 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1540 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1541 notmuch customize interface.
1543 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1545 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1546 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1547 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1548 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1550 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1552 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1553 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1554 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1555 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1557 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1559 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1560 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1561 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1562 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1563 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1564 notmuch customize interface.
1566 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1568 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1569 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1570 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1571 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1572 notmuch customize interface.
1574 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1576 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1577 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1578 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1579 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1582 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1584 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1585 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1586 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1589 New build-system features
1590 -------------------------
1592 Various portability fixes have been applied
1594 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1595 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1596 more portable than ever before.
1598 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1600 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1601 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1602 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1604 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1605 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1606 automatically run ldconfig.
1608 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1609 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1610 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1612 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1613 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1614 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1615 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1617 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1619 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1620 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1621 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1622 used in the resulting Makefile.
1624 New test-suite features
1625 -----------------------
1627 New modularization of test suite
1629 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1630 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1631 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1632 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1633 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1634 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1635 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1636 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1638 New testing of emacs interface
1640 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1641 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1642 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1643 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1644 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1645 database via the FCC setting.
1650 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1652 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1653 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1654 persistent error of the form:
1656 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1658 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1659 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1661 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1663 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1664 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1665 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1667 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1669 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1670 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1671 parsing the notmuch results).
1673 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1675 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1678 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1679 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1680 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1685 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1687 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1688 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1689 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1690 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1691 the emacs interface.
1693 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1695 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1696 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1697 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1699 Python-binding fixes
1700 --------------------
1702 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1704 Debian-specific fixes
1705 ---------------------
1707 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1709 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1710 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1711 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1714 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1715 ==========================
1720 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1722 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1723 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1724 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1725 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1727 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1729 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1730 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1731 want notmuch to crash.
1736 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1738 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1739 directory does not exist
1744 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1746 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1747 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1749 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1750 ========================
1752 New command-line features
1753 -------------------------
1755 User-configurable tags for new messages
1757 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1758 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1759 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1760 to specify this value.
1762 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1764 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1765 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1766 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1768 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1770 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1771 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1773 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1775 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1776 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1777 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1778 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1779 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1782 Indication of author names that match a search
1784 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1785 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1786 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1787 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1788 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1789 messages in the thread are listed first.
1791 New: Python bindings
1792 --------------------
1794 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1795 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1796 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1797 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1799 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1800 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1801 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1804 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1805 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1806 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1808 Emacs interface improvements
1809 ----------------------------
1811 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1813 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1814 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1815 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1816 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1817 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1818 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1819 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1820 but without any of the disadvantages).
1822 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1823 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1824 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1827 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1828 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1829 instead running something like:
1831 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1833 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1834 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1835 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1838 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1840 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1841 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1842 tweaked by the user.
1844 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1845 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1846 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1849 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1850 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1851 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1854 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1856 This support currently relies on an external program,
1857 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1858 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1859 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1860 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1861 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1864 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1865 notmuch) is available via:
1867 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1869 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1870 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1871 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1873 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1875 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1876 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1877 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1878 making this automatic in a future release.
1880 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1882 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1883 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1884 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1885 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1886 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1887 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1890 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1892 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1893 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1894 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1896 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1898 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1899 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1900 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1902 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1903 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1904 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1905 other representation.
1907 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1908 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1911 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1913 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1914 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1915 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1917 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1918 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1919 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1921 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1923 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1924 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1925 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1926 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1927 to display the search result.
1929 More flexible handling of header visibility
1931 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1932 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1933 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1934 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1935 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1936 with the 'h' keybinding.
1938 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1939 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1940 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1942 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1944 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1946 Customizable formatting of search results
1948 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1949 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1950 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1952 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1954 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1956 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1961 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1963 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1964 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1965 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1966 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1972 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1974 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1975 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1977 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1979 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1980 accept are now all accepted.
1985 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1987 Better display of output from failed tests
1989 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1990 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1992 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1993 ========================
1995 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1996 detailed release notes this time!
1998 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1999 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2001 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2002 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2003 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2004 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2011 Better guessing of From: header
2013 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2014 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2015 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2016 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2017 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2020 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2022 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2023 guaranteed to match all messages.
2025 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2027 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2028 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2029 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2030 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2031 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2034 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2037 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2038 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2039 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2040 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2045 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2047 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2048 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2049 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2050 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2052 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2054 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2056 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2057 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2058 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2060 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2062 Previously, the user might see:
2064 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2068 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2070 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2071 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2072 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2073 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2075 Emacs client features
2076 ---------------------
2078 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2080 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2081 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2082 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2083 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2084 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2086 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2089 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2090 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2091 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2092 search with the '*' binding.
2094 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2096 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2097 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2100 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2102 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2103 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2104 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2106 Build-system features
2107 ---------------------
2109 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2111 Add support to configure for many standard options
2113 We include actual support for:
2115 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2117 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2119 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2120 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2122 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2123 separate "make install-emacs"
2125 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2127 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2128 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2129 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2131 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2134 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2135 ========================
2137 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2139 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2140 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2142 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2143 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2144 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2145 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2146 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2147 tags from messages in a thread.
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