1 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2 ===========================
4 This is a bug fix and portability release.
9 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
11 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
13 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
15 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
17 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
23 Use --quick when starting emacs
25 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
27 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
29 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
31 Command-Line Interface
32 ----------------------
34 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
35 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
40 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
42 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
43 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
45 Fix for phrase indexing
47 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
48 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
49 will affect only newly indexed messages.
54 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
56 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
57 unintentionally removed.
59 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
60 =========================
65 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
66 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
67 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
68 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
69 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
70 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
71 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
72 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
73 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
79 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
81 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
82 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
83 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
84 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
85 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
86 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
87 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
88 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
90 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
92 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
93 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
94 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
95 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
98 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
100 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
101 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
102 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
103 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
104 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
105 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
106 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
111 Notmuch database upgrade
113 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
114 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
115 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
116 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
117 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
118 released version of Notmuch before now.
120 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
122 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
123 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
124 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
125 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
127 Message header parsing changes
129 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
130 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
131 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
132 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
133 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
134 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
136 Command-Line Interface
137 ----------------------
139 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
141 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
143 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
145 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
147 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
149 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
150 user does not want it.
152 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
154 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
155 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
156 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
157 support formatted output.
159 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
161 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
162 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
163 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
171 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
172 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
173 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
174 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
175 `~/.emacs` with these.
177 Changed format for saved searches
179 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
180 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
181 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
182 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
185 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
186 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
187 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
188 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
190 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
191 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
192 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
194 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
195 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
196 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
197 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
198 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
200 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
202 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
203 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
204 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
206 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
208 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
209 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
210 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
211 message had been unread).
213 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
214 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
215 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
216 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
218 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
219 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
220 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
222 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
223 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
224 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
225 to tags already present.
229 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
230 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
231 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
232 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
233 these differ from each other.
234 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
236 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
238 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
239 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
240 for these Emacs versions.
242 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
244 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
245 newlines before calling notmuch count.
247 Bug fixes for sender identities
249 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
250 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
251 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
253 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
255 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
256 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
257 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
258 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
260 Reply pushes mark before signature
262 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
263 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
264 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
266 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
268 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
269 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
275 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
276 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
278 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
279 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
280 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
281 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
283 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
284 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
285 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
286 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
287 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
289 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
291 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
292 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
294 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
295 =========================
297 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
298 ---------------------------------------
300 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
301 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
302 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
303 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
304 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
305 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
306 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
310 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
311 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
313 Command-Line Interface
314 ----------------------
316 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
318 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
319 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
320 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
321 print for each message.
323 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
324 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
325 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
326 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
328 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
330 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
331 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
332 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
334 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
336 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
337 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
338 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
339 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
341 `notmuch compact` command
343 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
344 functionality through a more convenient interface than
345 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
346 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
347 move the compacted database into place.
352 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
354 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
355 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
356 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
357 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
358 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
359 and multiple threads.
363 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
365 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
366 search, show and tree mode itself)
368 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
371 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
372 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
374 Customising `notmuch-tree`
376 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
377 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
378 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
379 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
380 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
381 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
382 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
384 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
386 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
387 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
388 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
389 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
390 thread when the search was performed.
392 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
394 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
395 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
396 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
398 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
400 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
401 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
404 Built-in help improvements
406 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
407 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
408 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
410 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
412 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
413 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
414 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
416 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
418 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
419 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
421 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
423 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
424 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
425 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
426 to move some of them to the common keymap.
428 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
430 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
431 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
432 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
433 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
435 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
437 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
438 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
439 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
441 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
443 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
444 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
445 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
447 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
449 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
450 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
451 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
452 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
453 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
455 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
457 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
458 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
459 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
460 the body part of the message.
465 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
466 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
467 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
469 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
470 =========================
472 Command-Line Interface
473 ----------------------
475 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
477 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
478 folder and notmuch index.
480 `notmuch count --batch` option
482 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
483 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
485 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
487 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
488 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
489 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
492 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
494 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
495 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
496 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
497 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
498 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
501 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
503 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
504 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
506 Top level option to specify configuration file
508 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
509 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
511 Bash command-line completion
513 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
514 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
515 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
516 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
517 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
518 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
519 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
520 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
521 bash-completion package.
523 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
528 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
530 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
531 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
532 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
533 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
534 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
535 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
536 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
537 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
539 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
541 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
542 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
543 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
545 Key bindings for next/previous thread
547 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
548 previous thread in the search results.
550 Better handling of errors in search buffers
552 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
553 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
555 Faster search and show
557 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
558 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
559 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
560 threads should show faster.
564 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
565 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
566 in question was now removed from this release.
571 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
572 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
577 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
579 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
580 ===========================
585 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
587 Internal test framework changes
588 -------------------------------
590 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
593 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
594 ===========================
596 Internal test framework changes
597 -------------------------------
599 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
600 build failures in non-interactive environments.
602 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
603 =========================
608 Date range search support
610 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
611 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
612 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
613 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
614 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
617 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
619 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
620 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
621 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
622 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
623 but may be removed in a future release.
625 Command-Line Interface
626 ----------------------
628 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
630 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
631 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
633 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
635 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
636 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
637 officially deprecated.
639 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
641 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
642 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
643 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
645 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
647 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
648 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
651 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
652 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
655 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
657 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
658 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
659 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
661 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
663 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
664 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
665 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
667 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
669 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
670 output separated by null characters rather than newline
671 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
672 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
677 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
679 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
680 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
681 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
682 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
684 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
686 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
687 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
688 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
689 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
690 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
691 the behavior of this, see
692 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
693 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
695 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
696 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
697 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
699 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
701 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
702 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
705 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
707 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
708 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
709 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
710 simply displayed in place of the message.
712 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
714 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
715 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
717 Improved text/calendar content handling
719 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
720 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
721 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
722 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
724 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
726 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
727 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
728 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
729 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
731 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
733 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
734 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
735 for HTML email containing images.
737 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
739 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
741 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
743 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
746 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
748 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
749 the point where it was.
751 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
753 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
754 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
755 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
756 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
757 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
759 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
761 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
762 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
763 thread instead of the message id.
765 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
766 -----------------------------
768 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
769 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
770 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
771 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
772 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
773 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
774 further details and installation.
779 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
781 Internal test framework changes
782 -------------------------------
784 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
786 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
787 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
788 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
789 can result in buggy behavior.
791 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
792 =========================
797 Maildir tag synchronization
799 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
800 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
801 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
802 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
803 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
804 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
807 Command-Line Interface
808 ----------------------
810 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
811 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
812 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
813 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
814 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
820 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
822 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
824 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
825 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
826 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
828 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
830 It is now possible to embed newlines in
831 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
834 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
836 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
837 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
838 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
839 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
840 inside the result or message.
842 Search now uses the JSON format internally
844 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
845 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
847 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
848 user-specified formatting
850 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
851 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
852 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
853 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
854 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
856 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
857 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
859 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
860 ===========================
865 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
866 compilation error for this contrib package.
868 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
869 ===========================
874 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
876 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
877 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
878 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
879 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
881 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
882 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
885 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
886 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
887 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
888 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
891 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
893 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
896 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
897 =========================
899 Command-Line Interface
900 ----------------------
904 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
905 for a reply message and full information about the original message
906 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
907 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
909 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
910 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
911 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
912 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
916 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
917 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
919 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
920 tag in your query, for example:
922 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
924 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
925 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
927 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
928 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
930 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
932 Raw show format changes
934 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
935 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
936 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
937 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
938 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
939 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
940 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
941 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
943 Listing configuration items
945 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
951 Changes to tagging interface
953 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
954 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
955 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
956 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
957 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
958 for more information.
960 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
961 may need to update in custom configurations.
963 Reply improvement using the JSON format
965 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
966 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
967 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
968 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
971 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
972 -----------------------------
974 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
975 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
976 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
977 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
978 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
979 contrib/ from now on.
984 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
985 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
987 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
988 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
990 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
991 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
992 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
994 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
995 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
997 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
998 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
999 returning the new database object or directory object.
1006 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1007 compatible with go 1.
1009 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1010 =========================
1012 Command-Line Interface
1013 ----------------------
1017 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1018 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1019 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1020 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1022 Mail store folder/file ignore
1024 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1025 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1026 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1028 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1029 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1031 Unified help and manual pages
1033 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1034 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1037 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1039 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1040 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1048 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1049 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1050 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1051 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1053 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1055 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1056 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1058 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1061 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1062 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1063 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1065 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1067 should be changed to:
1069 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1071 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1073 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1074 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1076 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1078 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1079 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1080 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1081 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1082 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1083 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1087 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1088 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1089 of Mailing List Archives.
1091 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1093 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1094 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1097 Show view archiving key binding changes
1099 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1100 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1101 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1102 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1103 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1106 Support text/calendar MIME type
1108 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1111 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1113 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1114 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1115 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1116 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1118 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1120 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1121 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1122 messages blue by default in the search view.
1126 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1127 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1134 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1137 Python bindings changes
1138 -----------------------
1140 Python 3.2 compatibility
1142 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1144 Added missing unicode conversions
1146 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1147 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1148 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1153 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1155 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1156 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1157 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1158 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1159 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1161 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1162 ===========================
1167 Fix error handling in python bindings
1169 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1170 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1171 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1172 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1174 Quote MML tags in replies
1176 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1177 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1178 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1179 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1180 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1181 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1182 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1183 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1185 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1186 =========================
1188 Command-Line Interface
1189 ----------------------
1193 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1194 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1195 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1196 importing new messages into the database.
1198 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1200 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1201 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1202 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1207 Automatic tag query optimization
1209 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1210 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1211 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1213 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1215 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1216 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1217 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1222 Reduction of memory leaks
1224 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1225 and fixed in this release.
1232 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1233 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1234 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1237 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1239 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1240 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1241 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1244 Improvements in saved search management
1246 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1247 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1248 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1250 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1252 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1253 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1254 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1256 New face for crypto parts headers
1258 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1259 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1260 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1263 Use space as default thousands separator
1265 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1266 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1267 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1269 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1270 buttonized id: links
1272 New function notmuch-show-advance
1274 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1275 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1276 be bound to SPC with:
1278 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1280 Various performance improvements
1285 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1286 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1289 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1290 ===========================
1295 Fix crash in python bindings
1297 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1298 for some, but not all users.
1300 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1301 ===========================
1306 Fix `--help` argument
1308 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1309 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1310 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1312 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1313 =========================
1315 New build and testing features
1316 ------------------------------
1318 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1319 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1320 prerequisites is improved.
1322 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1324 New command-line features
1325 -------------------------
1327 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1329 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1330 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1333 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1335 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1336 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1337 favour of using stdout.
1339 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1341 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1342 limit the number of results shown.
1344 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1346 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1347 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1350 New emacs UI features
1351 ---------------------
1353 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1355 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1356 starting with "tag:".
1358 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1360 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1361 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1363 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1365 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1367 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1369 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1370 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1375 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1377 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1379 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1380 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1381 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1382 requires a database rebuild:
1384 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1385 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1387 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1389 New collection of add-on tools
1390 ------------------------------
1392 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1393 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1394 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1397 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1399 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1400 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1401 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1403 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1404 ========================
1406 New, general features
1407 ---------------------
1409 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1411 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1412 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1413 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1414 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1415 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1422 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1423 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1425 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1429 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1430 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1431 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1434 Python bindings changes
1435 -----------------------
1437 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1439 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1440 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1441 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1442 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1443 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1444 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1446 Ruby bindings changes
1447 ---------------------
1449 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1450 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1451 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1452 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1457 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1459 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1460 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1462 Reply formatting cleanup
1463 ------------------------
1465 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1466 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1468 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1469 ========================
1471 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1473 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1474 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1475 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1476 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1479 Improved Build system portability
1481 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1482 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1483 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1485 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1487 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1489 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1491 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1492 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1493 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1495 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1496 ========================
1498 Vim interface improvements
1499 --------------------------
1501 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1503 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1504 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1505 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1506 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1507 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1509 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1511 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1512 * fix compose temp file name
1514 Python Bindings changes
1515 -----------------------
1517 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1519 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1520 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1522 Build-System improvements
1523 -------------------------
1525 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1527 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1530 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1531 ==========================
1536 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1538 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1539 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1541 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1542 =======================
1544 New, general features
1545 ---------------------
1547 Folder-based searching
1549 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1550 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1551 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1555 For example, one might use things such as:
1561 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1562 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1564 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1565 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1566 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1567 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1569 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1570 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1571 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1574 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1575 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1577 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1579 Support for PGP/MIME
1581 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1582 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1583 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1585 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1587 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1588 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1590 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1591 notmuch will receive these tags.
1593 New command-line features
1594 -------------------------
1596 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1598 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1599 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1601 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1603 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1604 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1605 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1607 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1609 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1610 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1611 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1612 which parts a signature part applies).
1614 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1616 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1617 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1618 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1619 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1620 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1623 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1625 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1626 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1627 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1628 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1629 by translating it internally to the new call.
1631 Performance improvements
1632 ------------------------
1634 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1636 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1637 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1638 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1640 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1641 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1643 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1645 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1646 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1647 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1649 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1650 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1651 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1652 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1654 Faster initial indexing
1656 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1657 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1658 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1660 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1662 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1663 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1664 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1665 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1667 New emacs-interface features
1668 ----------------------------
1670 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1672 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1673 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1674 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1675 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1676 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1677 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1679 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1681 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1682 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1683 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1684 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1686 User-selectable From address
1688 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1689 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1690 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1691 will prompt for the from address to use.
1693 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1694 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1695 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1697 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1698 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1699 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1702 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1704 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1705 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1707 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1709 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1711 ----- Original Message -----
1713 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1714 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1715 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1716 citations work much like conventional citations.
1718 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1720 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1721 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1722 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1723 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1724 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1726 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1727 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1729 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1731 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1732 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1733 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1735 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1737 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1738 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1739 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1740 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1741 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1743 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1745 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1748 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1750 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1752 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1754 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1757 Vim interface improvements
1758 --------------------------
1760 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1762 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1763 * Implementing archive in show view
1764 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1765 * Add delete commands
1768 Bindings improvements
1769 ---------------------
1771 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1773 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1774 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1776 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1778 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1782 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1783 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1784 `list(Messages)` works now
1785 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1787 These allow, for example:
1789 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1791 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1793 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1799 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1801 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1804 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1806 New build-system features
1807 -------------------------
1809 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1811 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1812 the configure script from some other directory:
1819 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1821 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1822 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1823 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1824 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1825 manual invocation of configure.
1827 New test-suite feature
1828 ----------------------
1830 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1832 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1833 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1834 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1835 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1836 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1839 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1841 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1842 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1843 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1844 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1845 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1846 are updated to take advantage of this.
1848 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1850 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1851 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1852 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1853 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1859 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1861 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1862 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1863 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1865 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1867 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1869 to:user@elsewhere.com
1871 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1873 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1875 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1877 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1878 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1879 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1882 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1883 from the Received headers in some cases
1885 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1886 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1888 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1890 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1892 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1894 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1895 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1896 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1898 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1899 -------------------------
1901 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1903 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1904 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1905 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1907 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1909 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1910 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1911 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1914 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1916 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1917 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1918 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1919 fixed to avoid this bug.
1921 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1923 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1924 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1926 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1927 ========================
1929 New, general features
1930 ---------------------
1932 Maildir-flag synchronization
1934 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1935 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1944 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1946 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1947 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1948 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1949 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1951 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1952 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1953 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1954 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1957 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1959 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1960 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1961 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1963 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1964 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1966 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1967 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1969 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1970 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1971 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1973 New library features
1974 --------------------
1976 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1978 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1979 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1980 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1981 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1983 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1984 message with the new function:
1986 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1988 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1989 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1990 over all available filenames for a given message.
1992 New command-line features
1993 -------------------------
1995 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1997 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1998 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1999 access to the mail store itself.
2001 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2002 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2003 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2004 name of a script containing:
2006 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2008 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2009 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2015 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2017 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2019 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2021 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2022 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2023 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2024 now produces nothing).
2026 Emacs interface improvements
2027 ----------------------------
2029 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2031 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2033 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2035 Display current thread subject in a header line
2037 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2039 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2041 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2042 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2043 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2044 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2045 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2046 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2047 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2049 Vim interface improvements
2050 --------------------------
2052 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2054 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2055 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2061 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2063 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2064 ========================
2066 New command-line features
2067 -------------------------
2069 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2071 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2072 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2073 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2075 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2076 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2077 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2078 scripts. For example:
2080 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2081 <operations-on> "$file"
2084 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2086 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2087 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2088 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2089 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2090 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2091 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2093 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2095 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2096 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2097 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2098 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2100 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2102 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2103 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2104 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2105 default rather than Bcc.
2107 New library features
2108 --------------------
2110 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2112 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2113 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2118 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2120 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2121 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2122 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2123 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2124 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2125 notmuch customize interface.
2127 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2129 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2130 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2131 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2132 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2134 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2136 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2137 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2138 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2139 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2141 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2143 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2144 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2145 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2146 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2147 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2148 notmuch customize interface.
2150 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2152 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2153 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2154 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2155 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2156 notmuch customize interface.
2158 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2160 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2161 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2162 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2163 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2166 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2168 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2169 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2170 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2173 New build-system features
2174 -------------------------
2176 Various portability fixes have been applied
2178 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2179 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2180 more portable than ever before.
2182 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2184 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2185 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2186 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2188 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2189 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2190 automatically run ldconfig.
2192 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2193 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2194 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2196 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2197 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2198 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2199 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2201 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2203 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2204 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2205 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2206 used in the resulting Makefile.
2208 New test-suite features
2209 -----------------------
2211 New modularization of test suite
2213 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2214 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2215 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2216 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2217 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2218 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2219 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2220 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2222 New testing of emacs interface
2224 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2225 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2226 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2227 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2228 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2229 database via the FCC setting.
2234 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2236 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2237 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2238 persistent error of the form:
2240 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2242 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2243 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2245 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2247 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2248 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2249 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2251 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2253 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2254 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2255 parsing the notmuch results).
2257 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2259 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2262 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2263 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2264 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2269 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2271 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2272 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2273 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2274 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2275 the emacs interface.
2277 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2279 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2280 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2281 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2283 Python-binding fixes
2284 --------------------
2286 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2288 Debian-specific fixes
2289 ---------------------
2291 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2293 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2294 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2295 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2298 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2299 ==========================
2304 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2306 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2307 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2308 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2309 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2311 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2313 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2314 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2315 want notmuch to crash.
2320 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2322 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2323 directory does not exist
2328 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2330 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2331 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2333 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2334 ========================
2336 New command-line features
2337 -------------------------
2339 User-configurable tags for new messages
2341 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2342 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2343 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2344 to specify this value.
2346 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2348 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2349 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2350 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2352 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2354 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2355 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2357 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2359 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2360 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2361 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2362 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2363 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2366 Indication of author names that match a search
2368 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2369 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2370 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2371 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2372 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2373 messages in the thread are listed first.
2375 New: Python bindings
2376 --------------------
2378 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2379 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2380 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2381 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2383 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2384 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2385 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2388 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2389 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2390 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2392 Emacs interface improvements
2393 ----------------------------
2395 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2397 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2398 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2399 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2400 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2401 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2402 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2403 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2404 but without any of the disadvantages).
2406 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2407 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2408 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2411 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2412 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2413 instead running something like:
2415 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2417 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2418 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2419 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2422 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2424 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2425 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2426 tweaked by the user.
2428 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2429 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2430 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2433 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2434 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2435 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2438 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2440 This support currently relies on an external program,
2441 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2442 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2443 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2444 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2445 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2448 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2449 notmuch) is available via:
2451 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2453 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2454 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2455 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2457 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2459 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2460 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2461 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2462 making this automatic in a future release.
2464 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2466 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2467 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2468 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2469 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2470 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2471 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2474 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2476 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2477 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2478 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2480 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2482 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2483 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2484 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2486 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2487 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2488 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2489 other representation.
2491 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2492 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2495 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2497 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2498 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2499 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2501 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2502 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2503 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2505 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2507 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2508 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2509 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2510 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2511 to display the search result.
2513 More flexible handling of header visibility
2515 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2516 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2517 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2518 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2519 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2520 with the 'h' keybinding.
2522 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2523 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2524 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2526 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2528 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2530 Customizable formatting of search results
2532 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2533 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2534 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2536 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2538 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2540 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2545 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2547 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2548 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2549 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2550 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2556 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2558 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2559 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2561 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2563 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2564 accept are now all accepted.
2569 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2571 Better display of output from failed tests
2573 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2574 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2576 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2577 ========================
2579 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2580 detailed release notes this time!
2582 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2583 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2585 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2586 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2587 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2588 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2595 Better guessing of From: header
2597 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2598 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2599 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2600 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2601 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2604 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2606 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2607 guaranteed to match all messages.
2609 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2611 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2612 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2613 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2614 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2615 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2618 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2621 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2622 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2623 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2624 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2629 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2631 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2632 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2633 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2634 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2636 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2638 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2640 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2641 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2642 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2644 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2646 Previously, the user might see:
2648 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2652 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2654 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2655 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2656 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2657 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2659 Emacs client features
2660 ---------------------
2662 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2664 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2665 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2666 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2667 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2668 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2670 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2673 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2674 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2675 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2676 search with the '*' binding.
2678 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2680 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2681 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2684 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2686 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2687 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2688 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2690 Build-system features
2691 ---------------------
2693 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2695 Add support to configure for many standard options
2697 We include actual support for:
2699 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2701 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2703 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2704 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2706 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2707 separate "make install-emacs"
2709 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2711 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2712 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2713 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2715 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2718 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2719 ========================
2721 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2723 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2724 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2726 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2727 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2728 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2729 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2730 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2731 tags from messages in a thread.
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