2 Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED)
3 =========================
8 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
10 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
11 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
12 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
13 print for each message.
15 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
16 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
17 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
18 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
20 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
22 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
23 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
24 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
26 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
28 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
29 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
30 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
31 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
36 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
38 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
39 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
40 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
41 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
42 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
47 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
49 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
50 search, show and tree mode itself)
52 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
55 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
56 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
58 Customising `notmuch-tree`
60 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
61 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
62 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
63 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
64 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
65 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
66 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
68 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
70 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
71 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
72 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
73 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
74 thread when the search was performed.
76 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
78 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
79 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
80 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
82 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
84 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
85 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
88 Built-in help improvements
90 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
91 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
92 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
94 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
96 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
97 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
98 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
100 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
102 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
103 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
105 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
107 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
108 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
109 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
110 to move some of them to the common keymap.
112 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
114 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
115 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
116 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
117 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
119 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
121 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
122 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
123 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
124 the body part of the message.
126 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
127 =========================
129 Command-Line Interface
130 ----------------------
132 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
134 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
135 folder and notmuch index.
137 `notmuch count --batch` option
139 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
140 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
142 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
144 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
145 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
146 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
149 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
151 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
152 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
153 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
154 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
155 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
158 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
160 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
161 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
163 Top level option to specify configuration file
165 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
166 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
168 Bash command-line completion
170 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
171 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
172 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
173 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
174 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
175 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
176 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
177 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
178 bash-completion package.
180 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
185 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
187 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
188 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
189 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
190 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
191 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
192 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
193 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
194 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
196 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
198 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
199 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
200 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
202 Key bindings for next/previous thread
204 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
205 previous thread in the search results.
207 Better handling of errors in search buffers
209 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
210 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
212 Faster search and show
214 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
215 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
216 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
217 threads should show faster.
221 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
222 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
223 in question was now removed from this release.
228 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
229 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
234 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
236 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
237 ===========================
242 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
244 Internal test framework changes
245 -------------------------------
247 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
250 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
251 ===========================
253 Internal test framework changes
254 -------------------------------
256 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
257 build failures in non-interactive environments.
259 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
260 =========================
265 Date range search support
267 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
268 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
269 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
270 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
271 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
274 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
276 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
277 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
278 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
279 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
280 but may be removed in a future release.
282 Command-Line Interface
283 ----------------------
285 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
287 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
288 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
290 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
292 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
293 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
294 officially deprecated.
296 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
298 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
299 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
300 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
302 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
304 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
305 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
308 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
309 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
312 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
314 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
315 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
316 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
318 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
320 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
321 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
322 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
324 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
326 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
327 output separated by null characters rather than newline
328 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
329 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
334 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
336 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
337 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
338 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
339 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
341 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
343 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
344 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
345 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
346 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
347 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
348 the behavior of this, see
349 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
350 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
352 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
353 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
354 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
356 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
358 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
359 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
362 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
364 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
365 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
366 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
367 simply displayed in place of the message.
369 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
371 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
372 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
374 Improved text/calendar content handling
376 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
377 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
378 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
379 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
381 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
383 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
384 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
385 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
386 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
388 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
390 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
391 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
392 for HTML email containing images.
394 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
396 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
398 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
400 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
403 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
405 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
406 the point where it was.
408 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
410 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
411 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
412 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
413 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
414 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
416 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
418 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
419 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
420 thread instead of the message id.
422 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
423 -----------------------------
425 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
426 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
427 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
428 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
429 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
430 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
431 further details and installation.
436 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
438 Internal test framework changes
439 -------------------------------
441 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
443 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
444 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
445 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
446 can result in buggy behavior.
448 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
449 =========================
454 Maildir tag synchronization
456 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
457 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
458 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
459 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
460 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
461 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
464 Command-Line Interface
465 ----------------------
467 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
468 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
469 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
470 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
471 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
477 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
479 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
481 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
482 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
483 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
485 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
487 It is now possible to embed newlines in
488 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
491 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
493 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
494 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
495 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
496 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
497 inside the result or message.
499 Search now uses the JSON format internally
501 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
502 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
504 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
505 user-specified formatting
507 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
508 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
509 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
510 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
511 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
513 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
514 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
516 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
517 ===========================
522 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
523 compilation error for this contrib package.
525 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
526 ===========================
531 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
533 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
534 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
535 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
536 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
538 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
539 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
542 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
543 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
544 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
545 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
548 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
550 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
553 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
554 =========================
556 Command-Line Interface
557 ----------------------
561 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
562 for a reply message and full information about the original message
563 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
564 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
566 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
567 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
568 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
569 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
573 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
574 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
576 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
577 tag in your query, for example:
579 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
581 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
582 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
584 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
585 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
587 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
589 Raw show format changes
591 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
592 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
593 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
594 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
595 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
596 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
597 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
598 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
600 Listing configuration items
602 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
608 Changes to tagging interface
610 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
611 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
612 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
613 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
614 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
615 for more information.
617 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
618 may need to update in custom configurations.
620 Reply improvement using the JSON format
622 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
623 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
624 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
625 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
628 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
629 -----------------------------
631 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
632 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
633 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
634 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
635 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
636 contrib/ from now on.
641 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
642 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
644 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
645 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
647 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
648 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
649 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
651 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
652 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
654 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
655 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
656 returning the new database object or directory object.
663 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
664 compatible with go 1.
666 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
667 =========================
669 Command-Line Interface
670 ----------------------
674 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
675 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
676 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
677 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
679 Mail store folder/file ignore
681 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
682 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
683 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
685 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
686 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
688 Unified help and manual pages
690 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
691 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
694 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
696 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
697 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
705 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
706 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
707 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
708 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
710 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
712 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
713 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
715 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
718 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
719 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
720 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
722 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
724 should be changed to:
726 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
728 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
730 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
731 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
733 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
735 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
736 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
737 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
738 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
739 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
740 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
744 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
745 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
746 of Mailing List Archives.
748 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
750 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
751 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
754 Show view archiving key binding changes
756 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
757 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
758 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
759 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
760 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
763 Support text/calendar MIME type
765 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
768 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
770 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
771 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
772 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
773 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
775 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
777 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
778 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
779 messages blue by default in the search view.
783 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
784 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
791 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
794 Python bindings changes
795 -----------------------
797 Python 3.2 compatibility
799 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
801 Added missing unicode conversions
803 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
804 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
805 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
810 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
812 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
813 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
814 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
815 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
816 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
818 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
819 ===========================
824 Fix error handling in python bindings
826 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
827 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
828 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
829 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
831 Quote MML tags in replies
833 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
834 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
835 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
836 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
837 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
838 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
839 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
840 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
842 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
843 =========================
845 Command-Line Interface
846 ----------------------
850 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
851 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
852 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
853 importing new messages into the database.
855 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
857 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
858 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
859 sometimes. This is now fixed.
864 Automatic tag query optimization
866 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
867 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
868 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
870 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
872 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
873 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
874 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
879 Reduction of memory leaks
881 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
882 and fixed in this release.
889 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
890 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
891 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
894 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
896 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
897 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
898 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
901 Improvements in saved search management
903 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
904 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
905 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
907 Hooks for notmuch-hello
909 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
910 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
911 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
913 New face for crypto parts headers
915 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
916 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
917 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
920 Use space as default thousands separator
922 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
923 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
924 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
926 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
929 New function notmuch-show-advance
931 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
932 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
933 be bound to SPC with:
935 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
937 Various performance improvements
942 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
943 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
946 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
947 ===========================
952 Fix crash in python bindings
954 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
955 for some, but not all users.
957 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
958 ===========================
963 Fix `--help` argument
965 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
966 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
967 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
969 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
970 =========================
972 New build and testing features
973 ------------------------------
975 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
976 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
977 prerequisites is improved.
979 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
981 New command-line features
982 -------------------------
984 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
986 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
987 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
990 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
992 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
993 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
994 favour of using stdout.
996 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
998 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
999 limit the number of results shown.
1001 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1003 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1004 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1007 New emacs UI features
1008 ---------------------
1010 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1012 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1013 starting with "tag:".
1015 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1017 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1018 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1020 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1022 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1024 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1026 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1027 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1032 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1034 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1036 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1037 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1038 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1039 requires a database rebuild:
1041 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1042 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1044 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1046 New collection of add-on tools
1047 ------------------------------
1049 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1050 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1051 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1054 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1056 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1057 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1058 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1060 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1061 ========================
1063 New, general features
1064 ---------------------
1066 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1068 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1069 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1070 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1071 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1072 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1079 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1080 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1082 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1086 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1087 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1088 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1091 Python bindings changes
1092 -----------------------
1094 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1096 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1097 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1098 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1099 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1100 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1101 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1103 Ruby bindings changes
1104 ---------------------
1106 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1107 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1108 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1109 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1114 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1116 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1117 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1119 Reply formatting cleanup
1120 ------------------------
1122 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1123 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1125 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1126 ========================
1128 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1130 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1131 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1132 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1133 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1136 Improved Build system portability
1138 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1139 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1140 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1142 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1144 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1146 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1148 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1149 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1150 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1152 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1153 ========================
1155 Vim interface improvements
1156 --------------------------
1158 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1160 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1161 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1162 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1163 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1164 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1166 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1168 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1169 * fix compose temp file name
1171 Python Bindings changes
1172 -----------------------
1174 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1176 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1177 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1179 Build-System improvements
1180 -------------------------
1182 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1184 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1187 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1188 ==========================
1193 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1195 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1196 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1198 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1199 =======================
1201 New, general features
1202 ---------------------
1204 Folder-based searching
1206 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1207 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1208 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1212 For example, one might use things such as:
1218 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1219 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1221 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1222 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1223 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1224 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1226 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1227 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1228 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1231 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1232 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1234 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1236 Support for PGP/MIME
1238 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1239 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1240 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1242 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1244 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1245 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1247 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1248 notmuch will receive these tags.
1250 New command-line features
1251 -------------------------
1253 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1255 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1256 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1258 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1260 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1261 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1262 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1264 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1266 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1267 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1268 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1269 which parts a signature part applies).
1271 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1273 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1274 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1275 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1276 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1277 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1280 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1282 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1283 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1284 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1285 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1286 by translating it internally to the new call.
1288 Performance improvements
1289 ------------------------
1291 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1293 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1294 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1295 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1297 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1298 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1300 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1302 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1303 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1304 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1306 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1307 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1308 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1309 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1311 Faster initial indexing
1313 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1314 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1315 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1317 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1319 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1320 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1321 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1322 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1324 New emacs-interface features
1325 ----------------------------
1327 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1329 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1330 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1331 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1332 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1333 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1334 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1336 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1338 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1339 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1340 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1341 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1343 User-selectable From address
1345 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1346 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1347 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1348 will prompt for the from address to use.
1350 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1351 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1352 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1354 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1355 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1356 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1359 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1361 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1362 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1364 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1366 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1368 ----- Original Message -----
1370 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1371 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1372 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1373 citations work much like conventional citations.
1375 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1377 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1378 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1379 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1380 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1381 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1383 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1384 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1386 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1388 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1389 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1390 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1392 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1394 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1395 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1396 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1397 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1398 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1400 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1402 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1405 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1407 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1409 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1411 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1414 Vim interface improvements
1415 --------------------------
1417 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1419 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1420 * Implementing archive in show view
1421 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1422 * Add delete commands
1425 Bindings improvements
1426 ---------------------
1428 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1430 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1431 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1433 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1435 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1439 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1440 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1441 `list(Messages)` works now
1442 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1444 These allow, for example:
1446 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1448 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1450 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1456 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1458 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1461 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1463 New build-system features
1464 -------------------------
1466 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1468 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1469 the configure script from some other directory:
1476 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1478 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1479 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1480 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1481 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1482 manual invocation of configure.
1484 New test-suite feature
1485 ----------------------
1487 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1489 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1490 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1491 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1492 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1493 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1496 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1498 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1499 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1500 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1501 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1502 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1503 are updated to take advantage of this.
1505 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1507 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1508 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1509 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1510 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1516 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1518 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1519 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1520 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1522 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1524 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1526 to:user@elsewhere.com
1528 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1530 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1532 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1534 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1535 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1536 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1539 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1540 from the Received headers in some cases
1542 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1543 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1545 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1547 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1549 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1551 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1552 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1553 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1555 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1556 -------------------------
1558 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1560 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1561 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1562 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1564 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1566 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1567 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1568 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1571 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1573 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1574 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1575 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1576 fixed to avoid this bug.
1578 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1580 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1581 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1583 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1584 ========================
1586 New, general features
1587 ---------------------
1589 Maildir-flag synchronization
1591 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1592 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1601 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1603 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1604 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1605 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1606 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1608 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1609 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1610 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1611 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1614 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1616 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1617 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1618 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1620 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1621 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1623 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1624 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1626 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1627 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1628 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1630 New library features
1631 --------------------
1633 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1635 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1636 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1637 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1638 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1640 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1641 message with the new function:
1643 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1645 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1646 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1647 over all available filenames for a given message.
1649 New command-line features
1650 -------------------------
1652 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1654 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1655 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1656 access to the mail store itself.
1658 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1659 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1660 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1661 name of a script containing:
1663 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1665 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1666 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1672 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1674 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1676 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1678 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1679 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1680 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1681 now produces nothing).
1683 Emacs interface improvements
1684 ----------------------------
1686 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1688 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1690 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1692 Display current thread subject in a header line
1694 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1696 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1698 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1699 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1700 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1701 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1702 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1703 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1704 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1706 Vim interface improvements
1707 --------------------------
1709 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1711 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1712 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1718 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1720 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1721 ========================
1723 New command-line features
1724 -------------------------
1726 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1728 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1729 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1730 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1732 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1733 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1734 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1735 scripts. For example:
1737 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1738 <operations-on> "$file"
1741 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1743 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1744 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1745 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1746 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1747 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1748 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1750 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1752 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1753 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1754 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1755 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1757 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1759 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1760 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1761 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1762 default rather than Bcc.
1764 New library features
1765 --------------------
1767 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1769 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1770 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1775 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1777 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1778 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1779 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1780 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1781 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1782 notmuch customize interface.
1784 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1786 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1787 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1788 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1789 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1791 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1793 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1794 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1795 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1796 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1798 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1800 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1801 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1802 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1803 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1804 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1805 notmuch customize interface.
1807 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1809 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1810 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1811 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1812 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1813 notmuch customize interface.
1815 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1817 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1818 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1819 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1820 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1823 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1825 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1826 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1827 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1830 New build-system features
1831 -------------------------
1833 Various portability fixes have been applied
1835 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1836 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1837 more portable than ever before.
1839 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1841 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1842 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1843 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1845 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1846 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1847 automatically run ldconfig.
1849 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1850 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1851 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1853 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1854 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1855 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1856 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1858 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1860 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1861 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1862 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1863 used in the resulting Makefile.
1865 New test-suite features
1866 -----------------------
1868 New modularization of test suite
1870 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1871 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1872 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1873 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1874 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1875 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1876 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1877 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1879 New testing of emacs interface
1881 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1882 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1883 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1884 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1885 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1886 database via the FCC setting.
1891 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1893 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1894 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1895 persistent error of the form:
1897 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1899 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1900 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1902 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1904 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1905 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1906 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1908 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1910 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1911 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1912 parsing the notmuch results).
1914 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1916 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1919 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1920 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1921 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1926 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1928 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1929 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1930 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1931 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1932 the emacs interface.
1934 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1936 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1937 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1938 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1940 Python-binding fixes
1941 --------------------
1943 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1945 Debian-specific fixes
1946 ---------------------
1948 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1950 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1951 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1952 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1955 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1956 ==========================
1961 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1963 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1964 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1965 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1966 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1968 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1970 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1971 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1972 want notmuch to crash.
1977 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1979 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1980 directory does not exist
1985 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1987 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1988 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1990 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1991 ========================
1993 New command-line features
1994 -------------------------
1996 User-configurable tags for new messages
1998 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1999 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2000 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2001 to specify this value.
2003 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2005 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2006 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2007 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2009 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2011 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2012 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2014 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2016 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2017 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2018 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2019 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2020 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2023 Indication of author names that match a search
2025 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2026 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2027 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2028 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2029 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2030 messages in the thread are listed first.
2032 New: Python bindings
2033 --------------------
2035 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2036 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2037 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2038 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2040 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2041 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2042 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2045 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2046 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2047 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2049 Emacs interface improvements
2050 ----------------------------
2052 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2054 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2055 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2056 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2057 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2058 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2059 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2060 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2061 but without any of the disadvantages).
2063 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2064 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2065 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2068 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2069 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2070 instead running something like:
2072 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2074 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2075 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2076 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2079 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2081 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2082 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2083 tweaked by the user.
2085 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2086 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2087 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2090 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2091 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2092 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2095 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2097 This support currently relies on an external program,
2098 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2099 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2100 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2101 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2102 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2105 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2106 notmuch) is available via:
2108 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2110 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2111 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2112 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2114 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2116 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2117 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2118 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2119 making this automatic in a future release.
2121 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2123 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2124 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2125 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2126 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2127 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2128 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2131 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2133 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2134 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2135 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2137 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2139 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2140 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2141 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2143 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2144 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2145 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2146 other representation.
2148 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2149 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2152 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2154 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2155 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2156 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2158 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2159 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2160 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2162 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2164 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2165 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2166 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2167 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2168 to display the search result.
2170 More flexible handling of header visibility
2172 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2173 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2174 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2175 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2176 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2177 with the 'h' keybinding.
2179 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2180 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2181 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2183 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2185 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2187 Customizable formatting of search results
2189 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2190 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2191 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2193 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2195 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2197 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2202 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2204 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2205 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2206 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2207 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2213 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2215 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2216 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2218 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2220 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2221 accept are now all accepted.
2226 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2228 Better display of output from failed tests
2230 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2231 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2233 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2234 ========================
2236 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2237 detailed release notes this time!
2239 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2240 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2242 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2243 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2244 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2245 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2252 Better guessing of From: header
2254 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2255 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2256 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2257 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2258 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2261 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2263 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2264 guaranteed to match all messages.
2266 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2268 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2269 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2270 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2271 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2272 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2275 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2278 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2279 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2280 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2281 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2286 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2288 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2289 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2290 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2291 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2293 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2295 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2297 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2298 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2299 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2301 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2303 Previously, the user might see:
2305 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2309 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2311 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2312 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2313 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2314 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2316 Emacs client features
2317 ---------------------
2319 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2321 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2322 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2323 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2324 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2325 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2327 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2330 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2331 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2332 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2333 search with the '*' binding.
2335 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2337 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2338 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2341 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2343 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2344 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2345 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2347 Build-system features
2348 ---------------------
2350 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2352 Add support to configure for many standard options
2354 We include actual support for:
2356 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2358 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2360 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2361 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2363 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2364 separate "make install-emacs"
2366 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2368 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2369 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2370 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2372 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2375 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2376 ========================
2378 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2380 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2381 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2383 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2384 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2385 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2386 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2387 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2388 tags from messages in a thread.
2395 indent-tabs-mode: nil