1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
9 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
10 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
11 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
12 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
13 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
14 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
17 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
19 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
20 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
21 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
22 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
25 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
27 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
28 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
29 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
30 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
31 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
32 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
33 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
38 Notmuch database upgrade
40 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
41 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
42 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
43 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
44 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
45 released version of Notmuch before now.
47 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
49 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
50 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
51 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
52 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
54 Command-Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
59 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
61 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
63 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
70 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
71 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
72 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
73 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
74 `~/.emacs` with these.
76 Changed format for saved searches
78 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
79 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
80 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
81 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
84 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
85 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
86 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
87 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
89 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
90 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
91 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
93 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
94 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
95 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
96 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
97 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
99 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
101 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
102 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
103 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
105 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
107 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
108 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
109 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
110 message had been unread).
112 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
113 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
114 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
115 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
117 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
118 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
119 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
121 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
122 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
123 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
124 to tags already present.
128 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
129 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
130 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
131 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
132 these differ from each other.
133 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
135 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
137 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
138 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
139 for these Emacs versions.
141 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
143 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
144 newlines before calling notmuch count.
146 Bug fixes for sender identities
148 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
149 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
150 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
152 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
154 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
155 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
156 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
157 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
162 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
163 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
165 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
166 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
167 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
168 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
170 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
171 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
172 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
173 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
174 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
176 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
178 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
179 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
181 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
182 =========================
184 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
185 ---------------------------------------
187 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
188 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
189 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
190 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
191 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
192 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
193 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
197 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
198 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
200 Command-Line Interface
201 ----------------------
203 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
205 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
206 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
207 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
208 print for each message.
210 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
211 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
212 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
213 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
215 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
217 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
218 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
219 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
221 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
223 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
224 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
225 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
226 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
228 `notmuch compact` command
230 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
231 functionality through a more convenient interface than
232 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
233 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
234 move the compacted database into place.
239 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
241 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
242 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
243 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
244 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
245 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
246 and multiple threads.
250 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
252 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
253 search, show and tree mode itself)
255 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
258 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
259 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
261 Customising `notmuch-tree`
263 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
264 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
265 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
266 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
267 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
268 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
269 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
271 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
273 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
274 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
275 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
276 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
277 thread when the search was performed.
279 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
281 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
282 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
283 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
285 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
287 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
288 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
291 Built-in help improvements
293 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
294 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
295 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
297 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
299 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
300 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
301 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
303 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
305 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
306 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
308 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
310 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
311 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
312 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
313 to move some of them to the common keymap.
315 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
317 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
318 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
319 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
320 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
322 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
324 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
325 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
326 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
328 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
330 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
331 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
332 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
334 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
336 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
337 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
338 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
339 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
340 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
342 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
344 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
345 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
346 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
347 the body part of the message.
352 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
353 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
354 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
356 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
357 =========================
359 Command-Line Interface
360 ----------------------
362 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
364 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
365 folder and notmuch index.
367 `notmuch count --batch` option
369 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
370 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
372 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
374 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
375 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
376 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
379 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
381 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
382 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
383 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
384 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
385 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
388 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
390 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
391 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
393 Top level option to specify configuration file
395 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
396 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
398 Bash command-line completion
400 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
401 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
402 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
403 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
404 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
405 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
406 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
407 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
408 bash-completion package.
410 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
415 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
417 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
418 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
419 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
420 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
421 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
422 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
423 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
424 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
426 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
428 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
429 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
430 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
432 Key bindings for next/previous thread
434 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
435 previous thread in the search results.
437 Better handling of errors in search buffers
439 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
440 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
442 Faster search and show
444 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
445 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
446 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
447 threads should show faster.
451 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
452 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
453 in question was now removed from this release.
458 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
459 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
464 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
466 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
467 ===========================
472 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
474 Internal test framework changes
475 -------------------------------
477 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
480 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
481 ===========================
483 Internal test framework changes
484 -------------------------------
486 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
487 build failures in non-interactive environments.
489 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
490 =========================
495 Date range search support
497 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
498 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
499 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
500 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
501 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
504 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
506 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
507 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
508 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
509 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
510 but may be removed in a future release.
512 Command-Line Interface
513 ----------------------
515 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
517 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
518 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
520 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
522 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
523 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
524 officially deprecated.
526 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
528 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
529 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
530 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
532 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
534 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
535 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
538 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
539 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
542 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
544 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
545 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
546 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
548 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
550 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
551 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
552 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
554 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
556 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
557 output separated by null characters rather than newline
558 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
559 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
564 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
566 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
567 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
568 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
569 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
571 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
573 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
574 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
575 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
576 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
577 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
578 the behavior of this, see
579 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
580 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
582 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
583 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
584 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
586 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
588 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
589 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
592 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
594 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
595 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
596 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
597 simply displayed in place of the message.
599 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
601 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
602 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
604 Improved text/calendar content handling
606 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
607 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
608 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
609 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
611 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
613 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
614 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
615 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
616 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
618 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
620 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
621 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
622 for HTML email containing images.
624 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
626 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
628 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
630 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
633 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
635 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
636 the point where it was.
638 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
640 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
641 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
642 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
643 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
644 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
646 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
648 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
649 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
650 thread instead of the message id.
652 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
653 -----------------------------
655 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
656 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
657 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
658 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
659 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
660 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
661 further details and installation.
666 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
668 Internal test framework changes
669 -------------------------------
671 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
673 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
674 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
675 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
676 can result in buggy behavior.
678 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
679 =========================
684 Maildir tag synchronization
686 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
687 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
688 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
689 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
690 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
691 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
694 Command-Line Interface
695 ----------------------
697 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
698 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
699 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
700 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
701 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
707 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
709 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
711 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
712 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
713 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
715 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
717 It is now possible to embed newlines in
718 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
721 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
723 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
724 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
725 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
726 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
727 inside the result or message.
729 Search now uses the JSON format internally
731 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
732 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
734 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
735 user-specified formatting
737 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
738 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
739 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
740 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
741 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
743 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
744 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
746 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
747 ===========================
752 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
753 compilation error for this contrib package.
755 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
756 ===========================
761 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
763 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
764 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
765 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
766 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
768 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
769 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
772 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
773 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
774 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
775 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
778 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
780 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
783 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
784 =========================
786 Command-Line Interface
787 ----------------------
791 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
792 for a reply message and full information about the original message
793 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
794 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
796 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
797 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
798 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
799 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
803 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
804 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
806 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
807 tag in your query, for example:
809 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
811 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
812 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
814 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
815 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
817 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
819 Raw show format changes
821 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
822 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
823 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
824 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
825 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
826 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
827 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
828 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
830 Listing configuration items
832 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
838 Changes to tagging interface
840 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
841 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
842 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
843 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
844 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
845 for more information.
847 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
848 may need to update in custom configurations.
850 Reply improvement using the JSON format
852 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
853 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
854 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
855 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
858 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
859 -----------------------------
861 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
862 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
863 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
864 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
865 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
866 contrib/ from now on.
871 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
872 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
874 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
875 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
877 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
878 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
879 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
881 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
882 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
884 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
885 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
886 returning the new database object or directory object.
893 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
894 compatible with go 1.
896 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
897 =========================
899 Command-Line Interface
900 ----------------------
904 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
905 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
906 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
907 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
909 Mail store folder/file ignore
911 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
912 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
913 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
915 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
916 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
918 Unified help and manual pages
920 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
921 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
924 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
926 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
927 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
935 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
936 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
937 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
938 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
940 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
942 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
943 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
945 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
948 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
949 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
950 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
952 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
954 should be changed to:
956 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
958 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
960 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
961 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
963 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
965 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
966 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
967 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
968 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
969 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
970 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
974 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
975 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
976 of Mailing List Archives.
978 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
980 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
981 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
984 Show view archiving key binding changes
986 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
987 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
988 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
989 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
990 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
993 Support text/calendar MIME type
995 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
998 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1000 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1001 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1002 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1003 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1005 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1007 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1008 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1009 messages blue by default in the search view.
1013 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1014 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1021 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1024 Python bindings changes
1025 -----------------------
1027 Python 3.2 compatibility
1029 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1031 Added missing unicode conversions
1033 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1034 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1035 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1040 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1042 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1043 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1044 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1045 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1046 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1048 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1049 ===========================
1054 Fix error handling in python bindings
1056 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1057 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1058 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1059 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1061 Quote MML tags in replies
1063 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1064 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1065 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1066 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1067 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1068 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1069 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1070 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1072 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1073 =========================
1075 Command-Line Interface
1076 ----------------------
1080 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1081 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1082 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1083 importing new messages into the database.
1085 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1087 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1088 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1089 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1094 Automatic tag query optimization
1096 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1097 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1098 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1100 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1102 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1103 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1104 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1109 Reduction of memory leaks
1111 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1112 and fixed in this release.
1119 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1120 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1121 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1124 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1126 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1127 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1128 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1131 Improvements in saved search management
1133 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1134 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1135 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1137 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1139 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1140 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1141 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1143 New face for crypto parts headers
1145 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1146 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1147 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1150 Use space as default thousands separator
1152 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1153 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1154 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1156 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1157 buttonized id: links
1159 New function notmuch-show-advance
1161 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1162 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1163 be bound to SPC with:
1165 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1167 Various performance improvements
1172 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1173 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1176 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1177 ===========================
1182 Fix crash in python bindings
1184 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1185 for some, but not all users.
1187 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1188 ===========================
1193 Fix `--help` argument
1195 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1196 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1197 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1199 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1200 =========================
1202 New build and testing features
1203 ------------------------------
1205 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1206 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1207 prerequisites is improved.
1209 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1211 New command-line features
1212 -------------------------
1214 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1216 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1217 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1220 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1222 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1223 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1224 favour of using stdout.
1226 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1228 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1229 limit the number of results shown.
1231 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1233 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1234 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1237 New emacs UI features
1238 ---------------------
1240 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1242 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1243 starting with "tag:".
1245 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1247 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1248 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1250 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1252 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1254 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1256 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1257 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1262 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1264 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1266 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1267 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1268 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1269 requires a database rebuild:
1271 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1272 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1274 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1276 New collection of add-on tools
1277 ------------------------------
1279 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1280 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1281 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1284 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1286 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1287 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1288 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1290 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1291 ========================
1293 New, general features
1294 ---------------------
1296 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1298 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1299 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1300 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1301 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1302 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1309 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1310 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1312 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1316 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1317 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1318 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1321 Python bindings changes
1322 -----------------------
1324 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1326 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1327 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1328 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1329 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1330 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1331 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1333 Ruby bindings changes
1334 ---------------------
1336 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1337 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1338 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1339 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1344 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1346 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1347 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1349 Reply formatting cleanup
1350 ------------------------
1352 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1353 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1355 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1356 ========================
1358 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1360 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1361 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1362 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1363 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1366 Improved Build system portability
1368 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1369 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1370 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1372 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1374 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1376 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1378 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1379 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1380 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1382 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1383 ========================
1385 Vim interface improvements
1386 --------------------------
1388 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1390 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1391 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1392 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1393 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1394 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1396 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1398 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1399 * fix compose temp file name
1401 Python Bindings changes
1402 -----------------------
1404 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1406 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1407 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1409 Build-System improvements
1410 -------------------------
1412 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1414 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1417 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1418 ==========================
1423 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1425 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1426 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1428 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1429 =======================
1431 New, general features
1432 ---------------------
1434 Folder-based searching
1436 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1437 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1438 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1442 For example, one might use things such as:
1448 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1449 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1451 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1452 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1453 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1454 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1456 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1457 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1458 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1461 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1462 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1464 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1466 Support for PGP/MIME
1468 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1469 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1470 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1472 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1474 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1475 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1477 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1478 notmuch will receive these tags.
1480 New command-line features
1481 -------------------------
1483 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1485 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1486 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1488 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1490 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1491 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1492 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1494 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1496 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1497 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1498 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1499 which parts a signature part applies).
1501 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1503 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1504 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1505 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1506 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1507 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1510 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1512 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1513 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1514 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1515 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1516 by translating it internally to the new call.
1518 Performance improvements
1519 ------------------------
1521 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1523 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1524 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1525 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1527 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1528 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1530 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1532 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1533 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1534 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1536 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1537 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1538 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1539 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1541 Faster initial indexing
1543 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1544 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1545 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1547 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1549 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1550 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1551 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1552 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1554 New emacs-interface features
1555 ----------------------------
1557 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1559 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1560 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1561 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1562 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1563 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1564 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1566 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1568 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1569 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1570 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1571 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1573 User-selectable From address
1575 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1576 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1577 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1578 will prompt for the from address to use.
1580 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1581 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1582 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1584 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1585 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1586 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1589 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1591 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1592 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1594 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1596 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1598 ----- Original Message -----
1600 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1601 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1602 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1603 citations work much like conventional citations.
1605 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1607 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1608 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1609 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1610 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1611 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1613 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1614 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1616 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1618 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1619 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1620 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1622 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1624 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1625 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1626 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1627 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1628 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1630 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1632 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1635 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1637 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1639 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1641 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1644 Vim interface improvements
1645 --------------------------
1647 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1649 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1650 * Implementing archive in show view
1651 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1652 * Add delete commands
1655 Bindings improvements
1656 ---------------------
1658 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1660 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1661 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1663 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1665 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1669 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1670 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1671 `list(Messages)` works now
1672 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1674 These allow, for example:
1676 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1678 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1680 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1686 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1688 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1691 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1693 New build-system features
1694 -------------------------
1696 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1698 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1699 the configure script from some other directory:
1706 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1708 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1709 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1710 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1711 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1712 manual invocation of configure.
1714 New test-suite feature
1715 ----------------------
1717 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1719 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1720 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1721 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1722 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1723 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1726 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1728 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1729 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1730 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1731 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1732 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1733 are updated to take advantage of this.
1735 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1737 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1738 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1739 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1740 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1746 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1748 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1749 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1750 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1752 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1754 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1756 to:user@elsewhere.com
1758 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1760 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1762 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1764 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1765 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1766 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1769 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1770 from the Received headers in some cases
1772 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1773 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1775 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1777 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1779 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1781 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1782 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1783 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1785 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1786 -------------------------
1788 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1790 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1791 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1792 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1794 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1796 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1797 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1798 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1801 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1803 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1804 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1805 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1806 fixed to avoid this bug.
1808 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1810 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1811 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1813 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1814 ========================
1816 New, general features
1817 ---------------------
1819 Maildir-flag synchronization
1821 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1822 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1831 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1833 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1834 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1835 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1836 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1838 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1839 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1840 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1841 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1844 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1846 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1847 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1848 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1850 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1851 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1853 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1854 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1856 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1857 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1858 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1860 New library features
1861 --------------------
1863 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1865 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1866 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1867 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1868 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1870 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1871 message with the new function:
1873 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1875 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1876 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1877 over all available filenames for a given message.
1879 New command-line features
1880 -------------------------
1882 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1884 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1885 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1886 access to the mail store itself.
1888 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1889 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1890 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1891 name of a script containing:
1893 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1895 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1896 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1902 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1904 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1906 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1908 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1909 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1910 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1911 now produces nothing).
1913 Emacs interface improvements
1914 ----------------------------
1916 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1918 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1920 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1922 Display current thread subject in a header line
1924 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1926 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1928 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1929 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1930 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1931 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1932 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1933 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1934 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1936 Vim interface improvements
1937 --------------------------
1939 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1941 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1942 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1948 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1950 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1951 ========================
1953 New command-line features
1954 -------------------------
1956 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1958 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1959 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1960 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1962 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1963 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1964 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1965 scripts. For example:
1967 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1968 <operations-on> "$file"
1971 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1973 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1974 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1975 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1976 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1977 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1978 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1980 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1982 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1983 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1984 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1985 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1987 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1989 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1990 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1991 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1992 default rather than Bcc.
1994 New library features
1995 --------------------
1997 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1999 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2000 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2005 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2007 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2008 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2009 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2010 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2011 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2012 notmuch customize interface.
2014 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2016 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2017 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2018 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2019 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2021 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2023 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2024 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2025 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2026 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2028 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2030 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2031 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2032 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2033 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2034 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2035 notmuch customize interface.
2037 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2039 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2040 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2041 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2042 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2043 notmuch customize interface.
2045 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2047 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2048 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2049 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2050 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2053 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2055 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2056 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2057 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2060 New build-system features
2061 -------------------------
2063 Various portability fixes have been applied
2065 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2066 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2067 more portable than ever before.
2069 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2071 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2072 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2073 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2075 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2076 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2077 automatically run ldconfig.
2079 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2080 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2081 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2083 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2084 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2085 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2086 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2088 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2090 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2091 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2092 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2093 used in the resulting Makefile.
2095 New test-suite features
2096 -----------------------
2098 New modularization of test suite
2100 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2101 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2102 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2103 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2104 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2105 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2106 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2107 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2109 New testing of emacs interface
2111 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2112 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2113 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2114 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2115 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2116 database via the FCC setting.
2121 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2123 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2124 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2125 persistent error of the form:
2127 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2129 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2130 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2132 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2134 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2135 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2136 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2138 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2140 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2141 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2142 parsing the notmuch results).
2144 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2146 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2149 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2150 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2151 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2156 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2158 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2159 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2160 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2161 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2162 the emacs interface.
2164 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2166 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2167 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2168 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2170 Python-binding fixes
2171 --------------------
2173 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2175 Debian-specific fixes
2176 ---------------------
2178 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2180 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2181 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2182 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2185 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2186 ==========================
2191 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2193 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2194 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2195 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2196 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2198 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2200 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2201 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2202 want notmuch to crash.
2207 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2209 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2210 directory does not exist
2215 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2217 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2218 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2220 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2221 ========================
2223 New command-line features
2224 -------------------------
2226 User-configurable tags for new messages
2228 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2229 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2230 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2231 to specify this value.
2233 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2235 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2236 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2237 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2239 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2241 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2242 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2244 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2246 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2247 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2248 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2249 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2250 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2253 Indication of author names that match a search
2255 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2256 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2257 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2258 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2259 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2260 messages in the thread are listed first.
2262 New: Python bindings
2263 --------------------
2265 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2266 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2267 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2268 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2270 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2271 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2272 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2275 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2276 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2277 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2279 Emacs interface improvements
2280 ----------------------------
2282 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2284 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2285 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2286 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2287 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2288 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2289 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2290 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2291 but without any of the disadvantages).
2293 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2294 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2295 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2298 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2299 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2300 instead running something like:
2302 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2304 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2305 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2306 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2309 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2311 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2312 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2313 tweaked by the user.
2315 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2316 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2317 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2320 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2321 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2322 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2325 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2327 This support currently relies on an external program,
2328 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2329 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2330 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2331 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2332 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2335 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2336 notmuch) is available via:
2338 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2340 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2341 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2342 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2344 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2346 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2347 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2348 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2349 making this automatic in a future release.
2351 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2353 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2354 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2355 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2356 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2357 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2358 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2361 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2363 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2364 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2365 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2367 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2369 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2370 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2371 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2373 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2374 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2375 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2376 other representation.
2378 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2379 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2382 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2384 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2385 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2386 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2388 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2389 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2390 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2392 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2394 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2395 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2396 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2397 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2398 to display the search result.
2400 More flexible handling of header visibility
2402 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2403 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2404 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2405 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2406 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2407 with the 'h' keybinding.
2409 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2410 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2411 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2413 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2415 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2417 Customizable formatting of search results
2419 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2420 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2421 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2423 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2425 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2427 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2432 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2434 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2435 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2436 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2437 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2443 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2445 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2446 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2448 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2450 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2451 accept are now all accepted.
2456 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2458 Better display of output from failed tests
2460 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2461 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2463 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2464 ========================
2466 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2467 detailed release notes this time!
2469 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2470 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2472 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2473 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2474 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2475 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2482 Better guessing of From: header
2484 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2485 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2486 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2487 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2488 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2491 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2493 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2494 guaranteed to match all messages.
2496 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2498 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2499 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2500 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2501 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2502 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2505 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2508 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2509 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2510 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2511 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2516 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2518 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2519 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2520 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2521 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2523 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2525 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2527 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2528 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2529 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2531 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2533 Previously, the user might see:
2535 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2539 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2541 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2542 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2543 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2544 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2546 Emacs client features
2547 ---------------------
2549 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2551 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2552 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2553 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2554 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2555 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2557 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2560 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2561 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2562 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2563 search with the '*' binding.
2565 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2567 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2568 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2571 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2573 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2574 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2575 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2577 Build-system features
2578 ---------------------
2580 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2582 Add support to configure for many standard options
2584 We include actual support for:
2586 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2588 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2590 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2591 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2593 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2594 separate "make install-emacs"
2596 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2598 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2599 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2600 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2602 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2605 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2606 ========================
2608 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2610 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2611 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2613 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2614 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2615 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2616 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2617 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2618 tags from messages in a thread.
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