1 Notmuch 0.14 (xxxx-xx-xx)
2 =========================
7 Maildir tag synchronization
9 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
10 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
11 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
12 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
13 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
14 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
20 Search now uses the JSON format internally
22 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
23 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
25 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
26 user-specified formatting
28 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
29 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
30 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
31 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
32 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
34 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
35 ===========================
40 Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
41 compilation error for this contrib package.
43 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
44 ===========================
49 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
51 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
52 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
53 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
54 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
56 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
57 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
60 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
61 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
62 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
63 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
66 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
68 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
71 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
72 =========================
74 Command-Line Interface
75 ----------------------
79 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
80 for a reply message and full information about the original message
81 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
82 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
84 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
85 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
86 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
87 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
91 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
92 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
94 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
95 tag in your query, for example:
97 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
99 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
100 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
102 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
103 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
105 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
107 Raw show format changes
109 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
110 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
111 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
112 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
113 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
114 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
115 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
116 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
118 Listing configuration items
120 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
126 Changes to tagging interface
128 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
129 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
130 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
131 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
132 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
133 for more information.
135 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
136 may need to update in custom configurations.
138 Reply improvement using the JSON format
140 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
141 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
142 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
143 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
146 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
147 -----------------------------
149 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
150 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
151 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
152 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
153 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
154 contrib/ from now on.
159 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
160 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
162 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
163 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
165 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
166 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
167 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
169 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
170 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
172 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
173 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
174 returning the new database object or directory object.
181 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
182 compatible with go 1.
184 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
185 =========================
187 Command-Line Interface
188 ----------------------
192 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
193 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
194 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
195 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
197 Mail store folder/file ignore
199 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
200 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
201 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
203 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
204 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
206 Unified help and manual pages
208 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
209 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
212 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
214 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
215 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
223 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
224 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
225 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
226 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
228 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
230 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
231 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
233 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
236 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
237 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
238 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
240 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
242 should be changed to:
244 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
246 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
248 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
249 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
251 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
253 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
254 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
255 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
256 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
257 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
258 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
262 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
263 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
264 of Mailing List Archives.
266 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
268 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
269 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
272 Show view archiving key binding changes
274 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
275 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
276 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
277 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
278 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
281 Support text/calendar MIME type
283 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
286 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
288 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
289 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
290 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
291 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
293 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
295 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
296 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
297 messages blue by default in the search view.
301 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
302 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
309 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
312 Python bindings changes
313 -----------------------
315 Python 3.2 compatibility
317 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
319 Added missing unicode conversions
321 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
322 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
323 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
328 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
330 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
331 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
332 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
333 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
334 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
336 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
337 ===========================
342 Fix error handling in python bindings
344 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
345 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
346 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
347 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
349 Quote MML tags in replies
351 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
352 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
353 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
354 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
355 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
356 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
357 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
358 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
360 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
361 =========================
363 Command-Line Interface
364 ----------------------
368 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
369 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
370 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
371 importing new messages into the database.
373 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
375 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
376 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
377 sometimes. This is now fixed.
382 Automatic tag query optimization
384 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
385 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
386 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
388 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
390 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
391 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
392 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
397 Reduction of memory leaks
399 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
400 and fixed in this release.
407 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
408 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
409 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
412 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
414 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
415 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
416 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
419 Improvements in saved search management
421 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
422 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
423 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
425 Hooks for notmuch-hello
427 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
428 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
429 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
431 New face for crypto parts headers
433 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
434 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
435 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
438 Use space as default thousands separator
440 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
441 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
442 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
444 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
447 New function notmuch-show-advance
449 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
450 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
451 be bound to SPC with:
453 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
455 Various performance improvements
460 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
461 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
464 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
465 ===========================
470 Fix crash in python bindings
472 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
473 for some, but not all users.
475 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
476 ===========================
481 Fix `--help` argument
483 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
484 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
485 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
487 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
488 =========================
490 New build and testing features
491 ------------------------------
493 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
494 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
495 prerequisites is improved.
497 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
499 New command-line features
500 -------------------------
502 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
504 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
505 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
508 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
510 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
511 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
512 favour of using stdout.
514 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
516 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
517 limit the number of results shown.
519 Add `notmuch count --output` option
521 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
522 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
525 New emacs UI features
526 ---------------------
528 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
530 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
531 starting with "tag:".
533 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
535 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
536 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
538 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
540 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
542 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
544 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
545 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
550 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
552 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
554 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
555 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
556 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
557 requires a database rebuild:
559 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
560 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
562 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
564 New collection of add-on tools
565 ------------------------------
567 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
568 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
569 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
572 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
574 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
575 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
576 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
578 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
579 ========================
581 New, general features
582 ---------------------
584 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
586 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
587 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
588 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
589 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
590 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
597 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
598 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
600 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
604 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
605 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
606 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
609 Python bindings changes
610 -----------------------
612 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
614 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
615 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
616 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
617 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
618 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
619 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
621 Ruby bindings changes
622 ---------------------
624 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
625 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
626 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
627 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
632 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
634 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
635 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
637 Reply formatting cleanup
638 ------------------------
640 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
641 MIME parts are being suppressed.
643 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
644 ========================
646 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
648 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
649 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
650 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
651 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
654 Improved Build system portability
656 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
657 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
658 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
660 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
662 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
664 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
666 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
667 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
668 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
670 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
671 ========================
673 Vim interface improvements
674 --------------------------
676 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
678 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
679 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
680 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
681 * fix from list reformatting in search view
682 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
684 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
686 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
687 * fix compose temp file name
689 Python Bindings changes
690 -----------------------
692 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
694 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
695 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
697 Build-System improvements
698 -------------------------
700 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
702 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
705 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
706 ==========================
711 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
713 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
714 people running gcc 4.4.5.
716 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
717 =======================
719 New, general features
720 ---------------------
722 Folder-based searching
724 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
725 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
726 storage). The syntax is as follows:
730 For example, one might use things such as:
736 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
737 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
739 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
740 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
741 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
742 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
744 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
745 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
746 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
749 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
750 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
752 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
756 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
757 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
758 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
760 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
762 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
763 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
765 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
766 notmuch will receive these tags.
768 New command-line features
769 -------------------------
771 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
773 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
774 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
776 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
778 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
779 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
780 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
782 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
784 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
785 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
786 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
787 which parts a signature part applies).
789 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
791 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
792 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
793 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
794 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
795 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
798 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
800 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
801 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
802 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
803 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
804 by translating it internally to the new call.
806 Performance improvements
807 ------------------------
809 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
811 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
812 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
813 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
815 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
816 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
818 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
820 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
821 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
822 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
824 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
825 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
826 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
827 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
829 Faster initial indexing
831 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
832 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
833 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
835 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
837 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
838 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
839 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
840 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
842 New emacs-interface features
843 ----------------------------
845 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
847 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
848 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
849 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
850 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
851 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
852 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
854 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
856 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
857 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
858 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
859 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
861 User-selectable From address
863 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
864 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
865 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
866 will prompt for the from address to use.
868 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
869 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
870 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
872 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
873 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
874 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
877 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
879 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
880 its parent, the subject is not shown.
882 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
884 When a message contains a line looking something like:
886 ----- Original Message -----
888 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
889 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
890 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
891 citations work much like conventional citations.
893 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
895 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
896 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
897 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
898 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
899 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
901 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
902 Notmuch After Tag Hook
904 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
906 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
907 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
908 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
910 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
912 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
913 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
914 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
915 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
916 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
918 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
920 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
923 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
925 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
927 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
929 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
932 Vim interface improvements
933 --------------------------
935 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
937 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
938 * Implementing archive in show view
939 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
940 * Add delete commands
943 Bindings improvements
944 ---------------------
946 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
948 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
949 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
951 Python bindings have been updated and extended
953 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
957 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
958 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
959 `list(Messages)` works now
960 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
962 These allow, for example:
966 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
968 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
974 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
976 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
979 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
981 New build-system features
982 -------------------------
984 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
986 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
987 the configure script from some other directory:
994 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
996 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
997 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
998 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
999 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1000 manual invocation of configure.
1002 New test-suite feature
1003 ----------------------
1005 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1007 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1008 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1009 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1010 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1011 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1014 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1016 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1017 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1018 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1019 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1020 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1021 are updated to take advantage of this.
1023 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1025 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1026 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1027 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1028 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1034 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1036 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1037 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1038 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1040 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1042 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1044 to:user@elsewhere.com
1046 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1048 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1050 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1052 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1053 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1054 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1057 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1058 from the Received headers in some cases
1060 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1061 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1063 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1065 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1067 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1069 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1070 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1071 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1073 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1074 -------------------------
1076 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1078 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1079 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1080 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1082 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1084 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1085 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1086 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1089 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1091 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1092 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1093 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1094 fixed to avoid this bug.
1096 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1098 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1099 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1101 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1102 ========================
1104 New, general features
1105 ---------------------
1107 Maildir-flag synchronization
1109 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1110 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1119 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1121 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1122 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1123 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1124 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1126 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1127 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1128 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1129 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1132 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1134 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1135 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1136 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1138 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1139 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1141 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1142 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1144 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1145 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1146 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1148 New library features
1149 --------------------
1151 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1153 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1154 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1155 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1156 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1158 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1159 message with the new function:
1161 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1163 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1164 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1165 over all available filenames for a given message.
1167 New command-line features
1168 -------------------------
1170 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1172 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1173 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1174 access to the mail store itself.
1176 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1177 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1178 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1179 name of a script containing:
1181 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1183 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1184 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1190 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1192 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1194 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1196 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1197 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1198 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1199 now produces nothing).
1201 Emacs interface improvements
1202 ----------------------------
1204 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1206 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1208 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1210 Display current thread subject in a header line
1212 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1214 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1216 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1217 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1218 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1219 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1220 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1221 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1222 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1224 Vim interface improvements
1225 --------------------------
1227 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1229 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1230 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1236 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1238 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1239 ========================
1241 New command-line features
1242 -------------------------
1244 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1246 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1247 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1248 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1250 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1251 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1252 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1253 scripts. For example:
1255 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1256 <operations-on> "$file"
1259 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1261 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1262 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1263 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1264 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1265 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1266 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1268 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1270 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1271 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1272 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1273 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1275 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1277 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1278 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1279 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1280 default rather than Bcc.
1282 New library features
1283 --------------------
1285 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1287 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1288 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1293 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1295 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1296 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1297 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1298 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1299 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1300 notmuch customize interface.
1302 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1304 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1305 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1306 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1307 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1309 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1311 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1312 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1313 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1314 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1316 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1318 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1319 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1320 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1321 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1322 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1323 notmuch customize interface.
1325 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1327 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1328 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1329 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1330 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1331 notmuch customize interface.
1333 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1335 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1336 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1337 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1338 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1341 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1343 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1344 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1345 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1348 New build-system features
1349 -------------------------
1351 Various portability fixes have been applied
1353 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1354 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1355 more portable than ever before.
1357 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1359 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1360 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1361 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1363 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1364 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1365 automatically run ldconfig.
1367 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1368 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1369 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1371 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1372 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1373 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1374 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1376 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1378 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1379 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1380 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1381 used in the resulting Makefile.
1383 New test-suite features
1384 -----------------------
1386 New modularization of test suite
1388 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1389 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1390 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1391 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1392 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1393 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1394 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1395 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1397 New testing of emacs interface
1399 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1400 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1401 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1402 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1403 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1404 database via the FCC setting.
1409 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1411 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1412 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1413 persistent error of the form:
1415 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1417 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1418 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1420 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1422 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1423 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1424 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1426 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1428 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1429 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1430 parsing the notmuch results).
1432 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1434 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1437 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1438 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1439 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1444 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1446 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1447 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1448 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1449 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1450 the emacs interface.
1452 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1454 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1455 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1456 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1458 Python-binding fixes
1459 --------------------
1461 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1463 Debian-specific fixes
1464 ---------------------
1466 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1468 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1469 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1470 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1473 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1474 ==========================
1479 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1481 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1482 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1483 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1484 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1486 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1488 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1489 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1490 want notmuch to crash.
1495 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1497 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1498 directory does not exist
1503 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1505 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1506 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1508 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1509 ========================
1511 New command-line features
1512 -------------------------
1514 User-configurable tags for new messages
1516 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1517 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1518 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1519 to specify this value.
1521 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1523 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1524 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1525 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1527 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1529 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1530 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1532 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1534 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1535 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1536 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1537 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1538 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1541 Indication of author names that match a search
1543 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1544 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1545 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1546 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1547 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1548 messages in the thread are listed first.
1550 New: Python bindings
1551 --------------------
1553 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1554 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1555 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1556 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1558 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1559 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1560 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1563 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1564 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1565 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1567 Emacs interface improvements
1568 ----------------------------
1570 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1572 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1573 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1574 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1575 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1576 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1577 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1578 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1579 but without any of the disadvantages).
1581 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1582 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1583 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1586 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1587 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1588 instead running something like:
1590 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1592 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1593 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1594 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1597 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1599 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1600 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1601 tweaked by the user.
1603 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1604 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1605 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1608 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1609 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1610 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1613 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1615 This support currently relies on an external program,
1616 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1617 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1618 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1619 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1620 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1623 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1624 notmuch) is available via:
1626 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1628 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1629 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1630 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1632 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1634 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1635 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1636 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1637 making this automatic in a future release.
1639 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1641 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1642 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1643 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1644 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1645 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1646 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1649 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1651 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1652 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1653 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1655 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1657 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1658 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1659 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1661 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1662 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1663 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1664 other representation.
1666 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1667 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1670 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1672 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1673 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1674 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1676 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1677 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1678 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1680 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1682 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1683 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1684 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1685 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1686 to display the search result.
1688 More flexible handling of header visibility
1690 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1691 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1692 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1693 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1694 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1695 with the 'h' keybinding.
1697 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1698 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1699 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1701 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1703 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1705 Customizable formatting of search results
1707 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1708 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1709 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1711 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1713 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1715 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1720 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1722 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1723 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1724 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1725 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1731 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1733 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1734 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1736 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1738 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1739 accept are now all accepted.
1744 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1746 Better display of output from failed tests
1748 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1749 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1751 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1752 ========================
1754 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1755 detailed release notes this time!
1757 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1758 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1760 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1761 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1762 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1763 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1770 Better guessing of From: header
1772 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1773 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1774 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1775 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1776 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1779 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1781 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1782 guaranteed to match all messages.
1784 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1786 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1787 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1788 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1789 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1790 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1793 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1796 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1797 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1798 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1799 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1804 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1806 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1807 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1808 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1809 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1811 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1813 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1815 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1816 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1817 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1819 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1821 Previously, the user might see:
1823 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1827 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1829 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1830 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1831 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1832 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1834 Emacs client features
1835 ---------------------
1837 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1839 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1840 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1841 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1842 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1843 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1845 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1848 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1849 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1850 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1851 search with the '*' binding.
1853 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1855 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1856 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1859 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1861 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1862 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1863 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1865 Build-system features
1866 ---------------------
1868 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1870 Add support to configure for many standard options
1872 We include actual support for:
1874 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1876 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1878 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1879 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1881 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1882 separate "make install-emacs"
1884 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1886 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1887 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1888 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1890 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1893 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1894 ========================
1896 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1898 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1899 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1901 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1902 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1903 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1904 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1905 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1906 tags from messages in a thread.
1913 indent-tabs-mode: nil