1 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-xx-xx)
2 =========================
4 New command-line features
5 -------------------------
7 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
9 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
10 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
13 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
15 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
16 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
17 favour of using stdout.
19 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
20 ========================
25 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
27 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
28 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
29 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
30 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
31 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
38 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
39 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
41 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
45 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
46 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
47 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
50 Python bindings changes
51 -----------------------
53 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
55 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
56 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
57 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
58 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
59 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
60 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
65 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
66 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
67 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
68 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
73 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
75 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
76 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
78 Reply formatting cleanup
79 ------------------------
81 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
82 MIME parts are being suppressed.
84 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
85 ========================
87 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
89 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
90 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
91 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
92 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
95 Improved Build system portability
97 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
98 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
99 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
101 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
103 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
105 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
107 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
108 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
109 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
111 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
112 ========================
114 Vim interface improvements
115 --------------------------
117 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
119 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
120 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
121 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
122 * fix from list reformatting in search view
123 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
125 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
127 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
128 * fix compose temp file name
130 Python Bindings changes
131 -----------------------
133 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
135 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
136 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
138 Build-System improvments
139 ------------------------
141 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
143 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
146 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
147 ==========================
152 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
154 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
155 people running gcc 4.4.5.
157 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
158 =======================
159 New, general features
160 ---------------------
161 Folder-based searching
163 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
164 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
165 storage). The syntax is as follows:
169 For example, one might use things such as:
175 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
176 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
178 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
179 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
180 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
181 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
183 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
184 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
185 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
188 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
189 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
191 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
195 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
196 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
197 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
199 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
201 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
202 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
204 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
205 notmuch will receive these tags.
207 New command-line features
208 -------------------------
209 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
211 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
212 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
214 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
216 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
217 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
218 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
220 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
222 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
223 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
224 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
225 which parts a signature part applies).
227 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
229 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
230 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
231 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
232 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
233 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
236 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
238 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
239 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
240 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
241 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
242 by translating it internally to the new call.
244 Performance improvements
245 ------------------------
246 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
248 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
249 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
250 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
252 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
253 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
255 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
257 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
258 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
259 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
261 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
262 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
263 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
264 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
266 Faster initial indexing
268 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
269 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
270 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
272 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
274 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
275 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
276 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
277 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
279 New emacs-interface features
280 ----------------------------
282 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
284 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
285 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
286 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
287 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
288 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
289 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
291 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
293 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
294 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
295 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
296 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
298 User-selectable From address
300 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
301 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
302 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
303 will prompt for the from address to use.
305 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
306 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
307 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
309 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
310 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
311 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
314 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
316 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
317 its parent, the subject is not shown.
319 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
321 When a message contains a line looking something like:
323 ----- Original Message -----
325 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
326 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
327 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
328 citations work much like conventional citations.
330 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
332 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
333 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
334 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
335 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
336 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
338 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
339 Notmuch After Tag Hook
341 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
343 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
344 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
345 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
347 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
349 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
350 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
351 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
352 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
353 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
355 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
357 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
360 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
362 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
364 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
365 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
367 Vim interface improvements
368 --------------------------
369 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
371 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
372 * Implementing archive in show view
373 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
374 * Add delete commands
377 Bindings improvements
378 ---------------------
379 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
381 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
382 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
384 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
385 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
388 - Message().get_filenames(),
389 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
390 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
392 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
393 These allow, for example:
396 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
398 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
403 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
404 Use len(list(Messages())) or
405 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
407 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
409 New build-system features
410 -------------------------
411 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
413 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
414 the configure script from some other directory:
421 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
423 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
424 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
425 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
426 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
427 manual invocation of configure.
429 New test-suite feature
430 ----------------------
431 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
433 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
434 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
435 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
436 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
437 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
440 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
442 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
443 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
444 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
445 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
446 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
447 are updated to take advantage of this.
449 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
451 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
452 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
453 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
454 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
459 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
461 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
462 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
463 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
465 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
467 This fixed a bug where a search for:
469 to:user@elsewhere.com
471 would incorrectly match a message sent:
473 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
475 Fix --output=json when search has no results
477 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
478 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
479 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
482 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
483 from the Received headers in some cases.
485 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
486 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
488 Cleaned up several memory leaks
490 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
492 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
494 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
495 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
496 interface and were never intended to be exported.
498 Emacs-interface bug fixes
499 -------------------------
500 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
502 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
503 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
504 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
506 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
508 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
509 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
510 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
513 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
515 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
516 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
517 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
518 fixed to avoid this bug.
520 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
522 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
523 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
525 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
526 ========================
527 New, general features
528 ---------------------
529 Maildir-flag synchronization
531 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
532 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
541 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
543 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
544 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
545 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
546 renamed with an 'R' flag).
548 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
549 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
550 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
551 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
554 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
556 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
557 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
558 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
560 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
561 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
563 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
564 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
566 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
567 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
568 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
572 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
574 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
575 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
576 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
577 notmuch_message_get_filename).
579 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
580 message with the new function:
582 notmuch_message_get_filenames
584 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
585 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
586 all available filenames for a given message.
588 New command-line features
589 -------------------------
590 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
592 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
593 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
594 access to the mail store itself.
596 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
597 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
598 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
599 name of a script containing:
601 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
603 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
604 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
609 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
611 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
613 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
615 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
616 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
617 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
618 now produces nothing).
620 Emacs interface improvements
621 ----------------------------
622 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
624 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
626 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
628 Display current thread subject in a header line.
630 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
632 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
634 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
635 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
636 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
637 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
638 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
639 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
640 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
642 Vim interface improvements
643 --------------------------
644 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
646 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
647 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
652 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
654 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
655 ========================
656 New command-line features
657 -------------------------
658 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
660 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
661 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
662 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
664 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
665 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
666 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
667 scripts. For example:
669 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
670 <operations-on> "$file"
673 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
675 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
676 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
677 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
678 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
679 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
680 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
682 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
684 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
685 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
686 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
687 custom items stored in the configuration file.
689 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
691 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
692 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
693 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
694 default rather than Bcc.
698 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
700 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
701 notmuch_query_t object.
705 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
707 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
708 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
709 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
710 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
711 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
712 notmuch customize interface.
714 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
716 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
717 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
718 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
719 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
721 Optional support for detecting inline patches
723 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
724 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
725 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
726 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
728 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
730 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
731 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
732 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
733 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
734 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
735 notmuch customize interface.
737 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
739 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
740 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
741 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
742 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
743 notmuch customize interface.
745 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
747 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
748 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
749 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
750 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
753 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
755 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
756 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
757 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
760 New build-system features
761 -------------------------
762 Various portability fixes have been applied
764 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
765 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
766 more portable than ever before.
768 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
770 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
771 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
772 after installing. This support takes two forms:
774 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
775 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
776 automatically run ldconfig.
778 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
779 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
780 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
782 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
783 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
784 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
785 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
787 Check compiler/linker options before using them
789 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
790 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
791 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
792 used in the resulting Makefile.
794 New test-suite features
795 -----------------------
796 New modularization of test suite.
798 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
799 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
800 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
801 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
802 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
803 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
804 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
805 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
807 New testing of emacs interface.
809 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
810 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
811 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
812 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
813 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
814 database via the FCC setting.
818 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
820 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
821 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
822 persistent error of the form:
824 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
826 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
827 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
829 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
831 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
832 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
833 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
835 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
837 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
838 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
839 parsing the notmuch results).
841 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
843 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
845 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
846 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
847 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
851 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
853 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
854 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
855 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
856 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
859 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
861 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
862 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
863 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
867 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
869 Debian-specific fixes
870 ---------------------
871 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
873 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
874 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
875 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
878 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
879 ==========================
882 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
884 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
885 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
886 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
887 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
889 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
891 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
892 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
893 want notmuch to crash.
897 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
899 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
900 directory does not exist.
904 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
906 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
907 final linking of notmuch would fail.
909 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
910 ========================
911 New command-line features
912 -------------------------
913 User-configurable tags for new messages
915 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
916 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
917 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
918 to specify this value.
920 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
922 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
923 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
924 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
926 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
928 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
929 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
931 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
933 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
934 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
935 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
936 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
937 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
940 Indication of author names that match a search
942 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
943 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
944 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
945 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
946 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
947 messages in the thread are listed first.
951 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
952 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
953 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
954 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
956 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
957 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
958 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
961 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
962 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
963 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
965 Emacs interface improvements
966 ----------------------------
967 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
969 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
970 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
971 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
972 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
973 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
974 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
975 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
976 but without any of the disadvantages).
978 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
979 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
980 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
983 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
984 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
985 recommend instead running something like:
987 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
989 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
990 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
991 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
994 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
996 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
997 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1000 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1001 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1002 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1005 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1006 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1007 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1010 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1012 This support currently relies on an external program,
1013 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1014 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1015 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1016 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1017 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1020 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1021 notmuch) is available via:
1023 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1025 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1026 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1027 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1029 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1031 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1032 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1033 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1034 making this automatic in a future release.
1036 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1038 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1039 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1040 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1041 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1042 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1043 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1046 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1048 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1049 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1050 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1052 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1054 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1055 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1056 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1058 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1059 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1060 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1061 other representation.
1063 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1064 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1067 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1069 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1070 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1071 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1073 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1074 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1075 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1077 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1079 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1080 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1081 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1082 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1083 to display the search result.
1085 More flexible handling of header visibility
1087 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1088 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1089 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1090 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1091 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1092 with the 'h' keybinding.
1094 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1095 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1096 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1098 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1100 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1102 Customizable formatting of search results
1104 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1105 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1106 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1108 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1110 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1112 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1116 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1118 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1119 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1120 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1121 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1126 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1128 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1129 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1131 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1133 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1134 accept are now all accepted.
1138 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1140 Better display of output from failed tests.
1142 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1143 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1145 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1146 ========================
1147 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1148 detailed release notes this time!
1150 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1151 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1153 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1154 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1155 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1156 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1162 Better guessing of From: header.
1164 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1165 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1166 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1167 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1168 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1171 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1173 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1174 guaranteed to match all messages.
1176 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1178 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1179 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1180 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1181 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1182 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1185 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1188 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1189 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1190 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1191 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1195 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1197 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1198 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1199 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1200 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1202 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1204 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1206 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1207 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1208 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1210 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1212 Previously, the user might see:
1214 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1218 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1220 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1221 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1222 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1223 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1225 Emacs client features
1226 ---------------------
1227 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1229 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1230 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1231 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1232 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1233 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1235 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1238 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1239 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1240 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1241 search with the '*' binding.
1243 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1245 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1246 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1249 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1251 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1252 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1253 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1255 Build-system features
1256 ---------------------
1257 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1259 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1261 We include actual support for:
1263 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1265 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1267 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1268 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1270 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1271 separate "make install-emacs".
1273 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1275 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1276 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1277 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1279 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1282 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1283 ========================
1284 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1286 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1287 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1289 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1290 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1291 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1292 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1293 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1294 tags from messages in a thread.