1 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-05)
2 ========================
4 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
6 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
7 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
8 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
9 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
12 Improved Build system portability
14 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
15 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
16 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
18 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
20 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
22 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
23 ========================
25 Vim interface improvements
26 --------------------------
28 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
30 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
31 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
32 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
33 * fix from list reformatting in search view
34 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
36 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
38 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
39 * fix compose temp file name
41 Python Bindings changes
42 -----------------------
44 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
46 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
47 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
49 Build-System improvments
50 ------------------------
52 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
54 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
57 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
58 ==========================
63 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
65 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
66 people running gcc 4.4.5.
68 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
69 =======================
72 Folder-based searching
74 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
75 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
76 storage). The syntax is as follows:
80 For example, one might use things such as:
86 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
87 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
89 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
90 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
91 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
92 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
94 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
95 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
96 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
99 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
100 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
102 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
106 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
107 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
108 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
110 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
112 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
113 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
115 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
116 notmuch will receive these tags.
118 New command-line features
119 -------------------------
120 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
122 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
123 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
125 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
127 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
128 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
129 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
131 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
133 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
134 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
135 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
136 which parts a signature part applies).
138 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
140 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
141 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
142 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
143 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
144 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
147 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
149 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
150 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
151 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
152 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
153 by translating it internally to the new call.
155 Performance improvements
156 ------------------------
157 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
159 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
160 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
161 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
163 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
164 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
166 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
168 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
169 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
170 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
172 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
173 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
174 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
175 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
177 Faster initial indexing
179 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
180 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
181 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
183 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
185 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
186 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
187 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
188 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
190 New emacs-interface features
191 ----------------------------
193 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
195 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
196 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
197 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
198 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
199 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
200 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
202 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
204 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
205 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
206 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
207 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
209 User-selectable From address
211 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
212 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
213 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
214 will prompt for the from address to use.
216 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
217 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
218 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
220 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
221 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
222 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
225 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
227 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
228 its parent, the subject is not shown.
230 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
232 When a message contains a line looking something like:
234 ----- Original Message -----
236 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
237 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
238 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
239 citations work much like conventional citations.
241 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
243 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
244 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
245 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
246 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
247 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
249 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
250 Notmuch After Tag Hook
252 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
254 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
255 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
256 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
258 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
260 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
261 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
262 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
263 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
264 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
266 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
268 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
271 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
273 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
275 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
276 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
278 Vim interface improvements
279 --------------------------
280 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
282 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
283 * Implementing archive in show view
284 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
285 * Add delete commands
288 Bindings improvements
289 ---------------------
290 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
292 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
293 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
295 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
296 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
299 - Message().get_filenames(),
300 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
301 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
303 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
304 These allow, for example:
307 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
309 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
314 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
315 Use len(list(Messages())) or
316 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
318 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
320 New build-system features
321 -------------------------
322 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
324 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
325 the configure script from some other directory:
332 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
334 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
335 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
336 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
337 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
338 manual invocation of configure.
340 New test-suite feature
341 ----------------------
342 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
344 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
345 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
346 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
347 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
348 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
351 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
353 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
354 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
355 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
356 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
357 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
358 are updated to take advantage of this.
360 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
362 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
363 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
364 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
365 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
370 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
372 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
373 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
374 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
376 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
378 This fixed a bug where a search for:
380 to:user@elsewhere.com
382 would incorrectly match a message sent:
384 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
386 Fix --output=json when search has no results
388 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
389 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
390 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
393 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
394 from the Received headers in some cases.
396 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
397 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
399 Cleaned up several memory leaks
401 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
403 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
405 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
406 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
407 interface and were never intended to be exported.
409 Emacs-interface bug fixes
410 -------------------------
411 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
413 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
414 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
415 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
417 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
419 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
420 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
421 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
424 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
426 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
427 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
428 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
429 fixed to avoid this bug.
431 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
433 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
434 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
436 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
437 ========================
438 New, general features
439 ---------------------
440 Maildir-flag synchronization
442 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
443 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
452 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
454 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
455 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
456 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
457 renamed with an 'R' flag).
459 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
460 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
461 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
462 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
465 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
467 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
468 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
469 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
471 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
472 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
474 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
475 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
477 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
478 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
479 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
483 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
485 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
486 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
487 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
488 notmuch_message_get_filename).
490 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
491 message with the new function:
493 notmuch_message_get_filenames
495 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
496 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
497 all available filenames for a given message.
499 New command-line features
500 -------------------------
501 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
503 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
504 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
505 access to the mail store itself.
507 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
508 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
509 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
510 name of a script containing:
512 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
514 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
515 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
520 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
522 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
524 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
526 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
527 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
528 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
529 now produces nothing).
531 Emacs interface improvements
532 ----------------------------
533 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
535 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
537 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
539 Display current thread subject in a header line.
541 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
543 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
545 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
546 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
547 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
548 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
549 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
550 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
551 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
553 Vim interface improvements
554 --------------------------
555 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
557 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
558 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
563 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
565 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
566 ========================
567 New command-line features
568 -------------------------
569 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
571 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
572 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
573 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
575 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
576 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
577 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
578 scripts. For example:
580 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
581 <operations-on> "$file"
584 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
586 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
587 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
588 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
589 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
590 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
591 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
593 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
595 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
596 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
597 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
598 custom items stored in the configuration file.
600 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
602 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
603 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
604 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
605 default rather than Bcc.
609 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
611 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
612 notmuch_query_t object.
616 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
618 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
619 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
620 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
621 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
622 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
623 notmuch customize interface.
625 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
627 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
628 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
629 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
630 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
632 Optional support for detecting inline patches
634 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
635 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
636 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
637 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
639 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
641 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
642 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
643 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
644 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
645 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
646 notmuch customize interface.
648 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
650 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
651 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
652 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
653 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
654 notmuch customize interface.
656 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
658 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
659 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
660 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
661 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
664 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
666 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
667 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
668 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
671 New build-system features
672 -------------------------
673 Various portability fixes have been applied
675 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
676 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
677 more portable than ever before.
679 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
681 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
682 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
683 after installing. This support takes two forms:
685 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
686 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
687 automatically run ldconfig.
689 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
690 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
691 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
693 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
694 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
695 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
696 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
698 Check compiler/linker options before using them
700 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
701 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
702 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
703 used in the resulting Makefile.
705 New test-suite features
706 -----------------------
707 New modularization of test suite.
709 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
710 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
711 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
712 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
713 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
714 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
715 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
716 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
718 New testing of emacs interface.
720 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
721 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
722 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
723 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
724 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
725 database via the FCC setting.
729 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
731 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
732 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
733 persistent error of the form:
735 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
737 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
738 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
740 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
742 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
743 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
744 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
746 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
748 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
749 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
750 parsing the notmuch results).
752 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
754 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
756 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
757 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
758 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
762 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
764 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
765 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
766 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
767 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
770 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
772 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
773 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
774 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
778 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
780 Debian-specific fixes
781 ---------------------
782 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
784 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
785 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
786 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
789 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
790 ==========================
793 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
795 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
796 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
797 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
798 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
800 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
802 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
803 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
804 want notmuch to crash.
808 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
810 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
811 directory does not exist.
815 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
817 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
818 final linking of notmuch would fail.
820 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
821 ========================
822 New command-line features
823 -------------------------
824 User-configurable tags for new messages
826 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
827 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
828 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
829 to specify this value.
831 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
833 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
834 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
835 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
837 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
839 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
840 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
842 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
844 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
845 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
846 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
847 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
848 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
851 Indication of author names that match a search
853 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
854 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
855 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
856 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
857 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
858 messages in the thread are listed first.
862 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
863 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
864 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
865 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
867 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
868 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
869 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
872 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
873 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
874 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
876 Emacs interface improvements
877 ----------------------------
878 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
880 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
881 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
882 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
883 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
884 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
885 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
886 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
887 but without any of the disadvantages).
889 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
890 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
891 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
894 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
895 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
896 recommend instead running something like:
898 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
900 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
901 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
902 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
905 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
907 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
908 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
911 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
912 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
913 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
916 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
917 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
918 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
921 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
923 This support currently relies on an external program,
924 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
925 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
926 already been written that generate address completions by doing
927 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
928 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
931 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
932 notmuch) is available via:
934 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
936 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
937 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
938 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
940 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
942 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
943 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
944 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
945 making this automatic in a future release.
947 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
949 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
950 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
951 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
952 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
953 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
954 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
957 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
959 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
960 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
961 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
963 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
965 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
966 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
967 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
969 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
970 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
971 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
972 other representation.
974 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
975 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
978 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
980 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
981 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
982 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
984 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
985 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
986 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
988 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
990 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
991 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
992 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
993 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
994 to display the search result.
996 More flexible handling of header visibility
998 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
999 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1000 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1001 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1002 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1003 with the 'h' keybinding.
1005 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1006 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1007 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1009 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1011 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1013 Customizable formatting of search results
1015 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1016 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1017 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1019 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1021 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1023 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1027 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1029 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1030 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1031 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1032 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1037 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1039 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1040 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1042 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1044 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1045 accept are now all accepted.
1049 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1051 Better display of output from failed tests.
1053 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1054 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1056 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1057 ========================
1058 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1059 detailed release notes this time!
1061 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1062 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1064 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1065 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1066 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1067 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1073 Better guessing of From: header.
1075 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1076 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1077 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1078 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1079 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1082 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1084 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1085 guaranteed to match all messages.
1087 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1089 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1090 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1091 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1092 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1093 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1096 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1099 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1100 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1101 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1102 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1106 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1108 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1109 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1110 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1111 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1113 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1115 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1117 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1118 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1119 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1121 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1123 Previously, the user might see:
1125 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1129 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1131 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1132 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1133 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1134 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1136 Emacs client features
1137 ---------------------
1138 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1140 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1141 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1142 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1143 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1144 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1146 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1149 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1150 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1151 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1152 search with the '*' binding.
1154 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1156 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1157 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1160 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1162 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1163 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1164 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1166 Build-system features
1167 ---------------------
1168 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1170 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1172 We include actual support for:
1174 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1176 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1178 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1179 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1181 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1182 separate "make install-emacs".
1184 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1186 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1187 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1188 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1190 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1193 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1194 ========================
1195 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1197 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1198 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1200 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1201 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1202 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1203 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1204 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1205 tags from messages in a thread.