1 Notmuch 0.14 (xxxx-xx-xx)
2 =========================
7 Maildir tag synchronization
9 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
10 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
11 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
12 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
13 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
14 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
17 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
18 ===========================
23 Update contrib/notmuch-deliver for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
24 compilation error for this contrib package.
26 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
27 ===========================
32 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
34 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
35 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
36 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
37 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
39 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
40 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
43 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
44 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
45 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
46 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
49 Fix compilation of ruby bindings.
51 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
54 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
55 =========================
57 Command-Line Interface
58 ----------------------
62 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
63 for a reply message and full information about the original message
64 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
65 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
67 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
68 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
69 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
70 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
74 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
75 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
77 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
78 tag in your query, for example:
80 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
82 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
83 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
85 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
86 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
88 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
90 Raw show format changes
92 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
93 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
94 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
95 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
96 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
97 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
98 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
99 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
101 Listing configuration items
103 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
109 Changes to tagging interface
111 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
112 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
113 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
114 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
115 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
116 for more information.
118 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
119 may need to update in custom configurations.
121 Reply improvement using the JSON format
123 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
124 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
125 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
126 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
129 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
130 -----------------------------
132 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
133 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
134 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
135 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
136 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
137 contrib/ from now on.
142 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
143 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
145 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
146 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
148 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
149 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
150 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
152 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
153 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
155 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
156 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
157 returning the new database object or directory object.
164 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
165 compatible with go 1.
167 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
168 =========================
170 Command-Line Interface
171 ----------------------
175 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
176 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
177 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
178 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
180 Mail store folder/file ignore
182 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
183 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
184 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
186 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
187 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
189 Unified help and manual pages
191 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
192 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
195 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
197 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
198 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
206 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
207 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
208 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
209 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
211 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
213 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
214 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
216 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
219 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
220 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
221 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
223 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
225 should be changed to:
227 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
229 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
231 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
232 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
234 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
236 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
237 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
238 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
239 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
240 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
241 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
245 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
246 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
247 of Mailing List Archives.
249 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
251 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
252 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
255 Show view archiving key binding changes
257 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
258 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
259 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
260 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
261 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
264 Support text/calendar MIME type
266 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
269 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
271 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
272 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
273 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
274 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
276 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
278 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
279 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
280 messages blue by default in the search view.
284 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
285 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
292 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
295 Python bindings changes
296 -----------------------
298 Python 3.2 compatibility
300 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
302 Added missing unicode conversions
304 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
305 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
306 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
311 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
313 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
314 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
315 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
316 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
317 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
319 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
320 ===========================
325 Fix error handling in python bindings
327 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
328 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
329 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
330 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
332 Quote MML tags in replies
334 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
335 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
336 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
337 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
338 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
339 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
340 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
341 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
343 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
344 =========================
346 Command-Line Interface
347 ----------------------
351 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
352 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
353 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
354 importing new messages into the database.
356 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
358 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
359 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
360 sometimes. This is now fixed.
365 Automatic tag query optimization
367 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
368 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
369 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
371 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
373 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
374 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
375 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
380 Reduction of memory leaks
382 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
383 and fixed in this release.
390 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
391 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
392 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
395 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
397 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
398 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
399 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
402 Improvements in saved search management
404 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
405 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
406 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
408 Hooks for notmuch-hello
410 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
411 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
412 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
414 New face for crypto parts headers
416 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
417 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
418 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
421 Use space as default thousands separator
423 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
424 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
425 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
427 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
430 New function notmuch-show-advance
432 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
433 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
434 be bound to SPC with:
436 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
438 Various performance improvements
443 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
444 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
447 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
448 ===========================
453 Fix crash in python bindings
455 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
456 for some, but not all users.
458 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
459 ===========================
464 Fix `--help` argument
466 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
467 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
468 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
470 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
471 =========================
473 New build and testing features
474 ------------------------------
476 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
477 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
478 prerequisites is improved.
480 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
482 New command-line features
483 -------------------------
485 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
487 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
488 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
491 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
493 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
494 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
495 favour of using stdout.
497 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
499 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
500 limit the number of results shown.
502 Add `notmuch count --output` option
504 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
505 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
508 New emacs UI features
509 ---------------------
511 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
513 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
514 starting with "tag:".
516 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
518 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
519 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
521 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
523 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
525 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
527 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
528 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
533 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
535 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
537 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
538 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
539 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
540 requires a database rebuild:
542 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
543 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
545 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
547 New collection of add-on tools
548 ------------------------------
550 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
551 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
552 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
555 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
557 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
558 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
559 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
561 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
562 ========================
564 New, general features
565 ---------------------
567 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
569 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
570 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
571 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
572 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
573 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
580 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
581 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
583 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
587 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
588 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
589 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
592 Python bindings changes
593 -----------------------
595 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
597 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
598 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
599 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
600 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
601 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
602 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
604 Ruby bindings changes
605 ---------------------
607 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
608 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
609 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
610 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
615 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
617 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
618 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
620 Reply formatting cleanup
621 ------------------------
623 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
624 MIME parts are being suppressed.
626 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
627 ========================
629 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
631 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
632 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
633 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
634 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
637 Improved Build system portability
639 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
640 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
641 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
643 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
645 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
647 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
649 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
650 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
651 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
653 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
654 ========================
656 Vim interface improvements
657 --------------------------
659 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
661 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
662 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
663 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
664 * fix from list reformatting in search view
665 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
667 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
669 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
670 * fix compose temp file name
672 Python Bindings changes
673 -----------------------
675 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
677 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
678 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
680 Build-System improvements
681 -------------------------
683 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
685 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
688 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
689 ==========================
694 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
696 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
697 people running gcc 4.4.5.
699 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
700 =======================
702 New, general features
703 ---------------------
705 Folder-based searching
707 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
708 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
709 storage). The syntax is as follows:
713 For example, one might use things such as:
719 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
720 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
722 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
723 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
724 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
725 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
727 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
728 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
729 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
732 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
733 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
735 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
739 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
740 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
741 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
743 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
745 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
746 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
748 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
749 notmuch will receive these tags.
751 New command-line features
752 -------------------------
754 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
756 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
757 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
759 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
761 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
762 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
763 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
765 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
767 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
768 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
769 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
770 which parts a signature part applies).
772 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
774 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
775 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
776 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
777 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
778 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
781 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
783 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
784 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
785 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
786 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
787 by translating it internally to the new call.
789 Performance improvements
790 ------------------------
792 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
794 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
795 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
796 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
798 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
799 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
801 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
803 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
804 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
805 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
807 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
808 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
809 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
810 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
812 Faster initial indexing
814 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
815 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
816 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
818 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
820 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
821 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
822 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
823 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
825 New emacs-interface features
826 ----------------------------
828 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
830 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
831 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
832 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
833 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
834 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
835 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
837 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
839 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
840 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
841 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
842 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
844 User-selectable From address
846 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
847 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
848 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
849 will prompt for the from address to use.
851 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
852 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
853 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
855 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
856 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
857 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
860 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
862 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
863 its parent, the subject is not shown.
865 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
867 When a message contains a line looking something like:
869 ----- Original Message -----
871 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
872 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
873 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
874 citations work much like conventional citations.
876 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
878 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
879 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
880 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
881 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
882 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
884 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
885 Notmuch After Tag Hook
887 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
889 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
890 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
891 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
893 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
895 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
896 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
897 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
898 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
899 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
901 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
903 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
906 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
908 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
910 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
912 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
915 Vim interface improvements
916 --------------------------
918 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
920 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
921 * Implementing archive in show view
922 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
923 * Add delete commands
926 Bindings improvements
927 ---------------------
929 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
931 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
932 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
934 Python bindings have been updated and extended
936 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
940 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
941 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
942 `list(Messages)` works now
943 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
945 These allow, for example:
949 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
951 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
957 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
959 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
962 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
964 New build-system features
965 -------------------------
967 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
969 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
970 the configure script from some other directory:
977 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
979 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
980 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
981 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
982 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
983 manual invocation of configure.
985 New test-suite feature
986 ----------------------
988 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
990 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
991 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
992 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
993 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
994 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
997 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
999 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1000 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1001 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1002 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1003 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1004 are updated to take advantage of this.
1006 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1008 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1009 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1010 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1011 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1017 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1019 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1020 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1021 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1023 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1025 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1027 to:user@elsewhere.com
1029 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1031 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1033 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1035 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1036 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1037 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1040 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1041 from the Received headers in some cases
1043 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1044 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1046 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1048 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1050 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1052 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1053 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1054 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1056 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1057 -------------------------
1059 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1061 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1062 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1063 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1065 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1067 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1068 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1069 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1072 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1074 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1075 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1076 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1077 fixed to avoid this bug.
1079 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1081 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1082 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1084 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1085 ========================
1087 New, general features
1088 ---------------------
1090 Maildir-flag synchronization
1092 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1093 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1102 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1104 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1105 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1106 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1107 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1109 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1110 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1111 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1112 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1115 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1117 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1118 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1119 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1121 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1122 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1124 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1125 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1127 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1128 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1129 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1131 New library features
1132 --------------------
1134 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1136 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1137 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1138 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1139 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1141 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1142 message with the new function:
1144 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1146 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1147 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1148 over all available filenames for a given message.
1150 New command-line features
1151 -------------------------
1153 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1155 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1156 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1157 access to the mail store itself.
1159 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1160 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1161 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1162 name of a script containing:
1164 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1166 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1167 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1173 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1175 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1177 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1179 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1180 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1181 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1182 now produces nothing).
1184 Emacs interface improvements
1185 ----------------------------
1187 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1189 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1191 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1193 Display current thread subject in a header line
1195 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1197 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1199 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1200 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1201 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1202 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1203 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1204 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1205 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1207 Vim interface improvements
1208 --------------------------
1210 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1212 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1213 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1219 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1221 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1222 ========================
1224 New command-line features
1225 -------------------------
1227 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1229 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1230 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1231 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1233 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1234 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1235 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1236 scripts. For example:
1238 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1239 <operations-on> "$file"
1242 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1244 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1245 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1246 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1247 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1248 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1249 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1251 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1253 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1254 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1255 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1256 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1258 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1260 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1261 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1262 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1263 default rather than Bcc.
1265 New library features
1266 --------------------
1268 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1270 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1271 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1276 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1278 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1279 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1280 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1281 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1282 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1283 notmuch customize interface.
1285 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1287 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1288 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1289 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1290 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1292 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1294 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1295 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1296 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1297 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1299 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1301 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1302 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1303 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1304 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1305 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1306 notmuch customize interface.
1308 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1310 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1311 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1312 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1313 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1314 notmuch customize interface.
1316 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1318 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1319 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1320 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1321 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1324 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1326 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1327 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1328 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1331 New build-system features
1332 -------------------------
1334 Various portability fixes have been applied
1336 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1337 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1338 more portable than ever before.
1340 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1342 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1343 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1344 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1346 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1347 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1348 automatically run ldconfig.
1350 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1351 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1352 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1354 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1355 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1356 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1357 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1359 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1361 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1362 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1363 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1364 used in the resulting Makefile.
1366 New test-suite features
1367 -----------------------
1369 New modularization of test suite
1371 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1372 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1373 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1374 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1375 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1376 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1377 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1378 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1380 New testing of emacs interface
1382 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1383 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1384 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1385 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1386 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1387 database via the FCC setting.
1392 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1394 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1395 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1396 persistent error of the form:
1398 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1400 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1401 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1403 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1405 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1406 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1407 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1409 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1411 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1412 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1413 parsing the notmuch results).
1415 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1417 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1420 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1421 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1422 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1427 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1429 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1430 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1431 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1432 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1433 the emacs interface.
1435 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1437 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1438 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1439 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1441 Python-binding fixes
1442 --------------------
1444 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1446 Debian-specific fixes
1447 ---------------------
1449 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1451 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1452 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1453 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1456 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1457 ==========================
1462 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1464 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1465 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1466 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1467 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1469 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1471 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1472 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1473 want notmuch to crash.
1478 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1480 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1481 directory does not exist
1486 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1488 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1489 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1491 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1492 ========================
1494 New command-line features
1495 -------------------------
1497 User-configurable tags for new messages
1499 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1500 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1501 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1502 to specify this value.
1504 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1506 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1507 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1508 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1510 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1512 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1513 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1515 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1517 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1518 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1519 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1520 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1521 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1524 Indication of author names that match a search
1526 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1527 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1528 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1529 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1530 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1531 messages in the thread are listed first.
1533 New: Python bindings
1534 --------------------
1536 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1537 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1538 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1539 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1541 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1542 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1543 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1546 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1547 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1548 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1550 Emacs interface improvements
1551 ----------------------------
1553 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1555 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1556 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1557 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1558 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1559 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1560 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1561 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1562 but without any of the disadvantages).
1564 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1565 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1566 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1569 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1570 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1571 instead running something like:
1573 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1575 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1576 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1577 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1580 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1582 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1583 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1584 tweaked by the user.
1586 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1587 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1588 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1591 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1592 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1593 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1596 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1598 This support currently relies on an external program,
1599 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1600 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1601 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1602 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1603 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1606 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1607 notmuch) is available via:
1609 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1611 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1612 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1613 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1615 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1617 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1618 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1619 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1620 making this automatic in a future release.
1622 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1624 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1625 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1626 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1627 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1628 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1629 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1632 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1634 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1635 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1636 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1638 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1640 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1641 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1642 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1644 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1645 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1646 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1647 other representation.
1649 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1650 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1653 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1655 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1656 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1657 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1659 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1660 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1661 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1663 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1665 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1666 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1667 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1668 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1669 to display the search result.
1671 More flexible handling of header visibility
1673 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1674 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1675 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1676 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1677 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1678 with the 'h' keybinding.
1680 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1681 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1682 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1684 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1686 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1688 Customizable formatting of search results
1690 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1691 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1692 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1694 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1696 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1698 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1703 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1705 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1706 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1707 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1708 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1714 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1716 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1717 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1719 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1721 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1722 accept are now all accepted.
1727 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1729 Better display of output from failed tests
1731 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1732 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1734 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1735 ========================
1737 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1738 detailed release notes this time!
1740 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1741 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1743 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1744 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1745 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1746 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1753 Better guessing of From: header
1755 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1756 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1757 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1758 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1759 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1762 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1764 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1765 guaranteed to match all messages.
1767 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1769 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1770 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1771 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1772 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1773 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1776 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1779 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1780 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1781 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1782 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1787 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1789 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1790 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1791 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1792 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1794 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1796 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1798 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1799 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1800 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1802 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1804 Previously, the user might see:
1806 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1810 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1812 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1813 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1814 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1815 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1817 Emacs client features
1818 ---------------------
1820 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1822 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1823 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1824 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1825 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1826 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1828 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1831 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1832 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1833 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1834 search with the '*' binding.
1836 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1838 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1839 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1842 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1844 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1845 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1846 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1848 Build-system features
1849 ---------------------
1851 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1853 Add support to configure for many standard options
1855 We include actual support for:
1857 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1859 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1861 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1862 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1864 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1865 separate "make install-emacs"
1867 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1869 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1870 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1871 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1873 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1876 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1877 ========================
1879 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1881 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1882 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1884 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1885 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1886 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1887 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1888 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1889 tags from messages in a thread.
1896 indent-tabs-mode: nil