1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
40 Bash command-line completion
42 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
43 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
44 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
45 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
46 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
47 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
48 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
49 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
50 bash-completion package.
55 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
56 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
57 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
58 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
59 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
66 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
67 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
68 in question was now removed from this release.
70 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
71 ===========================
76 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
78 Internal test framework changes
79 -------------------------------
81 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
84 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
85 ===========================
87 Internal test framework changes
88 -------------------------------
90 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
91 build failures in non-interactive environments.
93 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
94 =========================
99 Date range search support
101 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
102 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
103 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
104 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
105 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
108 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
110 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
111 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
112 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
113 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
114 but may be removed in a future release.
116 Command-Line Interface
117 ----------------------
119 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
121 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
122 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
124 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
126 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
127 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
128 officially deprecated.
130 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
132 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
133 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
134 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
136 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
138 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
139 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
142 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
143 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
146 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
148 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
149 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
150 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
152 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
154 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
155 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
156 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
158 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
160 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
161 output separated by null characters rather than newline
162 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
163 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
168 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
170 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
171 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
172 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
173 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
175 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
177 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
178 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
179 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
180 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
181 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
182 the behavior of this, see
183 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
184 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
186 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
187 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
188 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
190 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
192 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
193 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
196 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
198 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
199 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
200 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
201 simply displayed in place of the message.
203 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
205 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
206 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
208 Improved text/calendar content handling
210 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
211 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
212 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
213 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
215 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
217 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
218 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
219 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
220 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
222 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
224 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
225 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
226 for HTML email containing images.
228 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
230 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
232 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
234 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
237 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
239 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
240 the point where it was.
242 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
244 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
245 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
246 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
247 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
248 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
250 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
252 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
253 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
254 thread instead of the message id.
256 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
257 -----------------------------
259 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
260 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
261 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
262 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
263 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
264 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
265 further details and installation.
270 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
272 Internal test framework changes
273 -------------------------------
275 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
277 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
278 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
279 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
280 can result in buggy behavior.
282 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
283 =========================
288 Maildir tag synchronization
290 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
291 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
292 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
293 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
294 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
295 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
298 Command-Line Interface
299 ----------------------
301 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
302 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
303 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
304 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
305 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
311 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
313 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
315 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
316 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
317 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
319 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
321 It is now possible to embed newlines in
322 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
325 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
327 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
328 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
329 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
330 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
331 inside the result or message.
333 Search now uses the JSON format internally
335 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
336 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
338 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
339 user-specified formatting
341 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
342 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
343 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
344 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
345 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
347 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
348 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
350 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
351 ===========================
356 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
357 compilation error for this contrib package.
359 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
360 ===========================
365 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
367 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
368 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
369 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
370 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
372 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
373 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
376 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
377 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
378 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
379 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
382 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
384 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
387 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
388 =========================
390 Command-Line Interface
391 ----------------------
395 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
396 for a reply message and full information about the original message
397 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
398 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
400 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
401 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
402 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
403 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
407 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
408 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
410 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
411 tag in your query, for example:
413 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
415 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
416 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
418 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
419 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
421 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
423 Raw show format changes
425 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
426 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
427 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
428 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
429 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
430 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
431 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
432 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
434 Listing configuration items
436 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
442 Changes to tagging interface
444 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
445 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
446 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
447 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
448 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
449 for more information.
451 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
452 may need to update in custom configurations.
454 Reply improvement using the JSON format
456 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
457 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
458 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
459 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
462 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
463 -----------------------------
465 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
466 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
467 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
468 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
469 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
470 contrib/ from now on.
475 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
476 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
478 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
479 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
481 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
482 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
483 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
485 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
486 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
488 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
489 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
490 returning the new database object or directory object.
497 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
498 compatible with go 1.
500 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
501 =========================
503 Command-Line Interface
504 ----------------------
508 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
509 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
510 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
511 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
513 Mail store folder/file ignore
515 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
516 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
517 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
519 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
520 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
522 Unified help and manual pages
524 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
525 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
528 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
530 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
531 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
539 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
540 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
541 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
542 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
544 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
546 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
547 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
549 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
552 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
553 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
554 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
556 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
558 should be changed to:
560 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
562 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
564 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
565 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
567 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
569 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
570 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
571 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
572 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
573 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
574 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
578 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
579 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
580 of Mailing List Archives.
582 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
584 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
585 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
588 Show view archiving key binding changes
590 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
591 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
592 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
593 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
594 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
597 Support text/calendar MIME type
599 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
602 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
604 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
605 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
606 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
607 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
609 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
611 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
612 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
613 messages blue by default in the search view.
617 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
618 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
625 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
628 Python bindings changes
629 -----------------------
631 Python 3.2 compatibility
633 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
635 Added missing unicode conversions
637 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
638 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
639 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
644 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
646 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
647 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
648 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
649 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
650 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
652 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
653 ===========================
658 Fix error handling in python bindings
660 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
661 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
662 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
663 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
665 Quote MML tags in replies
667 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
668 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
669 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
670 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
671 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
672 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
673 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
674 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
676 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
677 =========================
679 Command-Line Interface
680 ----------------------
684 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
685 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
686 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
687 importing new messages into the database.
689 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
691 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
692 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
693 sometimes. This is now fixed.
698 Automatic tag query optimization
700 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
701 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
702 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
704 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
706 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
707 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
708 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
713 Reduction of memory leaks
715 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
716 and fixed in this release.
723 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
724 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
725 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
728 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
730 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
731 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
732 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
735 Improvements in saved search management
737 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
738 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
739 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
741 Hooks for notmuch-hello
743 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
744 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
745 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
747 New face for crypto parts headers
749 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
750 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
751 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
754 Use space as default thousands separator
756 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
757 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
758 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
760 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
763 New function notmuch-show-advance
765 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
766 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
767 be bound to SPC with:
769 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
771 Various performance improvements
776 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
777 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
780 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
781 ===========================
786 Fix crash in python bindings
788 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
789 for some, but not all users.
791 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
792 ===========================
797 Fix `--help` argument
799 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
800 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
801 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
803 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
804 =========================
806 New build and testing features
807 ------------------------------
809 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
810 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
811 prerequisites is improved.
813 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
815 New command-line features
816 -------------------------
818 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
820 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
821 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
824 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
826 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
827 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
828 favour of using stdout.
830 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
832 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
833 limit the number of results shown.
835 Add `notmuch count --output` option
837 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
838 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
841 New emacs UI features
842 ---------------------
844 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
846 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
847 starting with "tag:".
849 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
851 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
852 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
854 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
856 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
858 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
860 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
861 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
866 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
868 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
870 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
871 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
872 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
873 requires a database rebuild:
875 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
876 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
878 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
880 New collection of add-on tools
881 ------------------------------
883 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
884 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
885 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
888 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
890 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
891 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
892 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
894 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
895 ========================
897 New, general features
898 ---------------------
900 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
902 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
903 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
904 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
905 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
906 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
913 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
914 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
916 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
920 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
921 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
922 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
925 Python bindings changes
926 -----------------------
928 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
930 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
931 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
932 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
933 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
934 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
935 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
937 Ruby bindings changes
938 ---------------------
940 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
941 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
942 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
943 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
948 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
950 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
951 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
953 Reply formatting cleanup
954 ------------------------
956 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
957 MIME parts are being suppressed.
959 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
960 ========================
962 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
964 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
965 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
966 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
967 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
970 Improved Build system portability
972 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
973 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
974 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
976 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
978 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
980 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
982 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
983 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
984 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
986 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
987 ========================
989 Vim interface improvements
990 --------------------------
992 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
994 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
995 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
996 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
997 * fix from list reformatting in search view
998 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1000 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1002 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1003 * fix compose temp file name
1005 Python Bindings changes
1006 -----------------------
1008 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1010 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1011 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1013 Build-System improvements
1014 -------------------------
1016 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1018 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1021 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1022 ==========================
1027 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1029 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1030 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1032 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1033 =======================
1035 New, general features
1036 ---------------------
1038 Folder-based searching
1040 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1041 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1042 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1046 For example, one might use things such as:
1052 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1053 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1055 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1056 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1057 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1058 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1060 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1061 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1062 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1065 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1066 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1068 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1070 Support for PGP/MIME
1072 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1073 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1074 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1076 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1078 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1079 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1081 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1082 notmuch will receive these tags.
1084 New command-line features
1085 -------------------------
1087 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1089 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1090 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1092 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1094 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1095 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1096 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1098 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1100 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1101 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1102 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1103 which parts a signature part applies).
1105 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1107 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1108 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1109 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1110 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1111 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1114 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1116 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1117 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1118 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1119 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1120 by translating it internally to the new call.
1122 Performance improvements
1123 ------------------------
1125 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1127 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1128 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1129 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1131 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1132 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1134 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1136 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1137 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1138 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1140 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1141 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1142 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1143 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1145 Faster initial indexing
1147 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1148 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1149 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1151 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1153 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1154 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1155 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1156 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1158 New emacs-interface features
1159 ----------------------------
1161 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1163 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1164 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1165 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1166 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1167 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1168 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1170 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1172 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1173 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1174 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1175 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1177 User-selectable From address
1179 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1180 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1181 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1182 will prompt for the from address to use.
1184 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1185 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1186 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1188 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1189 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1190 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1193 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1195 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1196 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1198 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1200 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1202 ----- Original Message -----
1204 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1205 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1206 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1207 citations work much like conventional citations.
1209 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1211 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1212 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1213 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1214 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1215 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1217 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1218 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1220 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1222 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1223 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1224 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1226 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1228 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1229 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1230 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1231 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1232 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1234 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1236 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1239 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1241 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1243 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1245 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1248 Vim interface improvements
1249 --------------------------
1251 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1253 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1254 * Implementing archive in show view
1255 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1256 * Add delete commands
1259 Bindings improvements
1260 ---------------------
1262 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1264 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1265 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1267 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1269 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1273 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1274 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1275 `list(Messages)` works now
1276 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1278 These allow, for example:
1280 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1282 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1284 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1290 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1292 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1295 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1297 New build-system features
1298 -------------------------
1300 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1302 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1303 the configure script from some other directory:
1310 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1312 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1313 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1314 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1315 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1316 manual invocation of configure.
1318 New test-suite feature
1319 ----------------------
1321 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1323 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1324 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1325 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1326 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1327 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1330 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1332 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1333 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1334 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1335 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1336 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1337 are updated to take advantage of this.
1339 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1341 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1342 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1343 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1344 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1350 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1352 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1353 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1354 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1356 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1358 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1360 to:user@elsewhere.com
1362 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1364 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1366 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1368 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1369 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1370 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1373 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1374 from the Received headers in some cases
1376 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1377 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1379 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1381 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1383 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1385 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1386 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1387 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1389 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1390 -------------------------
1392 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1394 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1395 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1396 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1398 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1400 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1401 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1402 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1405 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1407 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1408 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1409 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1410 fixed to avoid this bug.
1412 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1414 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1415 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1417 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1418 ========================
1420 New, general features
1421 ---------------------
1423 Maildir-flag synchronization
1425 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1426 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1435 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1437 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1438 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1439 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1440 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1442 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1443 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1444 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1445 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1448 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1450 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1451 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1452 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1454 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1455 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1457 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1458 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1460 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1461 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1462 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1464 New library features
1465 --------------------
1467 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1469 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1470 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1471 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1472 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1474 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1475 message with the new function:
1477 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1479 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1480 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1481 over all available filenames for a given message.
1483 New command-line features
1484 -------------------------
1486 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1488 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1489 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1490 access to the mail store itself.
1492 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1493 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1494 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1495 name of a script containing:
1497 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1499 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1500 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1506 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1508 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1510 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1512 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1513 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1514 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1515 now produces nothing).
1517 Emacs interface improvements
1518 ----------------------------
1520 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1522 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1524 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1526 Display current thread subject in a header line
1528 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1530 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1532 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1533 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1534 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1535 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1536 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1537 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1538 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1540 Vim interface improvements
1541 --------------------------
1543 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1545 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1546 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1552 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1554 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1555 ========================
1557 New command-line features
1558 -------------------------
1560 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1562 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1563 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1564 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1566 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1567 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1568 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1569 scripts. For example:
1571 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1572 <operations-on> "$file"
1575 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1577 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1578 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1579 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1580 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1581 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1582 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1584 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1586 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1587 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1588 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1589 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1591 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1593 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1594 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1595 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1596 default rather than Bcc.
1598 New library features
1599 --------------------
1601 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1603 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1604 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1609 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1611 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1612 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1613 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1614 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1615 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1616 notmuch customize interface.
1618 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1620 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1621 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1622 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1623 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1625 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1627 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1628 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1629 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1630 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1632 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1634 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1635 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1636 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1637 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1638 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1639 notmuch customize interface.
1641 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1643 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1644 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1645 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1646 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1647 notmuch customize interface.
1649 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1651 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1652 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1653 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1654 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1657 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1659 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1660 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1661 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1664 New build-system features
1665 -------------------------
1667 Various portability fixes have been applied
1669 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1670 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1671 more portable than ever before.
1673 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1675 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1676 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1677 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1679 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1680 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1681 automatically run ldconfig.
1683 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1684 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1685 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1687 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1688 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1689 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1690 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1692 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1694 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1695 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1696 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1697 used in the resulting Makefile.
1699 New test-suite features
1700 -----------------------
1702 New modularization of test suite
1704 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1705 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1706 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1707 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1708 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1709 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1710 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1711 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1713 New testing of emacs interface
1715 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1716 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1717 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1718 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1719 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1720 database via the FCC setting.
1725 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1727 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1728 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1729 persistent error of the form:
1731 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1733 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1734 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1736 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1738 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1739 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1740 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1742 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1744 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1745 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1746 parsing the notmuch results).
1748 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1750 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1753 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1754 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1755 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1760 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1762 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1763 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1764 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1765 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1766 the emacs interface.
1768 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1770 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1771 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1772 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1774 Python-binding fixes
1775 --------------------
1777 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1779 Debian-specific fixes
1780 ---------------------
1782 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1784 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1785 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1786 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1789 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1790 ==========================
1795 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1797 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1798 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1799 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1800 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1802 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1804 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1805 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1806 want notmuch to crash.
1811 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1813 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1814 directory does not exist
1819 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1821 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1822 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1824 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1825 ========================
1827 New command-line features
1828 -------------------------
1830 User-configurable tags for new messages
1832 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1833 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1834 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1835 to specify this value.
1837 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1839 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1840 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1841 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1843 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1845 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1846 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1848 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1850 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1851 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1852 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1853 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1854 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1857 Indication of author names that match a search
1859 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1860 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1861 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1862 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1863 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1864 messages in the thread are listed first.
1866 New: Python bindings
1867 --------------------
1869 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1870 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1871 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1872 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1874 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1875 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1876 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1879 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1880 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1881 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1883 Emacs interface improvements
1884 ----------------------------
1886 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1888 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1889 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1890 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1891 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1892 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1893 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1894 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1895 but without any of the disadvantages).
1897 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1898 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1899 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1902 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1903 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1904 instead running something like:
1906 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1908 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1909 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1910 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1913 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1915 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1916 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1917 tweaked by the user.
1919 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1920 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1921 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1924 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1925 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1926 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1929 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1931 This support currently relies on an external program,
1932 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1933 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1934 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1935 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1936 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1939 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1940 notmuch) is available via:
1942 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1944 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1945 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1946 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1948 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1950 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1951 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1952 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1953 making this automatic in a future release.
1955 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1957 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1958 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1959 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1960 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1961 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1962 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1965 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1967 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1968 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1969 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1971 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1973 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1974 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1975 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1977 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1978 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1979 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1980 other representation.
1982 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1983 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1986 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1988 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1989 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1990 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1992 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1993 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1994 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1996 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1998 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1999 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2000 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2001 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2002 to display the search result.
2004 More flexible handling of header visibility
2006 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2007 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2008 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2009 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2010 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2011 with the 'h' keybinding.
2013 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2014 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2015 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2017 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2019 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2021 Customizable formatting of search results
2023 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2024 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2025 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2027 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2029 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2031 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2036 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2038 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2039 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2040 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2041 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2047 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2049 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2050 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2052 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2054 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2055 accept are now all accepted.
2060 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2062 Better display of output from failed tests
2064 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2065 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2067 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2068 ========================
2070 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2071 detailed release notes this time!
2073 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2074 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2076 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2077 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2078 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2079 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2086 Better guessing of From: header
2088 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2089 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2090 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2091 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2092 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2095 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2097 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2098 guaranteed to match all messages.
2100 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2102 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2103 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2104 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2105 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2106 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2109 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2112 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2113 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2114 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2115 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2120 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2122 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2123 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2124 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2125 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2127 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2129 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2131 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2132 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2133 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2135 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2137 Previously, the user might see:
2139 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2143 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2145 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2146 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2147 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2148 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2150 Emacs client features
2151 ---------------------
2153 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2155 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2156 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2157 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2158 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2159 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2161 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2164 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2165 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2166 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2167 search with the '*' binding.
2169 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2171 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2172 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2175 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2177 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2178 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2179 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2181 Build-system features
2182 ---------------------
2184 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2186 Add support to configure for many standard options
2188 We include actual support for:
2190 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2192 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2194 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2195 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2197 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2198 separate "make install-emacs"
2200 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2202 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2203 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2204 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2206 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2209 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2210 ========================
2212 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2214 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2215 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2217 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2218 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2219 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2220 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2221 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2222 tags from messages in a thread.
2229 indent-tabs-mode: nil