1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
9 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
10 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
11 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
12 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
13 but may be removed in a future release.
15 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
16 =========================
21 Maildir tag synchronization
23 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
24 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
25 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
26 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
27 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
28 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
31 Command-Line Interface
32 ----------------------
34 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
35 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
36 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
37 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
38 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
44 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
46 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
48 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
49 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
50 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
52 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
54 It is now possible to embed newlines in
55 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
58 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
60 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
61 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
62 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
63 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
64 inside the result or message.
66 Search now uses the JSON format internally
68 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
69 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
71 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
72 user-specified formatting
74 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
75 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
76 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
77 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
78 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
80 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
81 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
83 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
84 ===========================
89 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
90 compilation error for this contrib package.
92 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
93 ===========================
98 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
100 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
101 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
102 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
103 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
105 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
106 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
109 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
110 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
111 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
112 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
115 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
117 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
120 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
121 =========================
123 Command-Line Interface
124 ----------------------
128 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
129 for a reply message and full information about the original message
130 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
131 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
133 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
134 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
135 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
136 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
140 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
141 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
143 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
144 tag in your query, for example:
146 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
148 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
149 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
151 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
152 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
154 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
156 Raw show format changes
158 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
159 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
160 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
161 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
162 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
163 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
164 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
165 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
167 Listing configuration items
169 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
175 Changes to tagging interface
177 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
178 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
179 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
180 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
181 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
182 for more information.
184 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
185 may need to update in custom configurations.
187 Reply improvement using the JSON format
189 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
190 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
191 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
192 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
195 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
196 -----------------------------
198 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
199 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
200 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
201 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
202 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
203 contrib/ from now on.
208 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
209 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
211 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
212 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
214 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
215 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
216 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
218 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
219 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
221 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
222 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
223 returning the new database object or directory object.
230 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
231 compatible with go 1.
233 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
234 =========================
236 Command-Line Interface
237 ----------------------
241 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
242 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
243 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
244 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
246 Mail store folder/file ignore
248 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
249 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
250 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
252 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
253 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
255 Unified help and manual pages
257 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
258 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
261 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
263 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
264 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
272 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
273 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
274 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
275 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
277 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
279 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
280 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
282 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
285 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
286 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
287 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
289 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
291 should be changed to:
293 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
295 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
297 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
298 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
300 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
302 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
303 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
304 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
305 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
306 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
307 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
311 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
312 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
313 of Mailing List Archives.
315 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
317 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
318 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
321 Show view archiving key binding changes
323 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
324 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
325 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
326 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
327 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
330 Support text/calendar MIME type
332 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
335 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
337 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
338 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
339 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
340 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
342 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
344 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
345 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
346 messages blue by default in the search view.
350 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
351 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
358 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
361 Python bindings changes
362 -----------------------
364 Python 3.2 compatibility
366 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
368 Added missing unicode conversions
370 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
371 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
372 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
377 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
379 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
380 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
381 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
382 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
383 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
385 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
386 ===========================
391 Fix error handling in python bindings
393 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
394 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
395 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
396 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
398 Quote MML tags in replies
400 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
401 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
402 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
403 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
404 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
405 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
406 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
407 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
409 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
410 =========================
412 Command-Line Interface
413 ----------------------
417 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
418 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
419 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
420 importing new messages into the database.
422 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
424 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
425 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
426 sometimes. This is now fixed.
431 Automatic tag query optimization
433 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
434 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
435 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
437 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
439 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
440 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
441 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
446 Reduction of memory leaks
448 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
449 and fixed in this release.
456 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
457 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
458 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
461 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
463 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
464 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
465 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
468 Improvements in saved search management
470 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
471 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
472 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
474 Hooks for notmuch-hello
476 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
477 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
478 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
480 New face for crypto parts headers
482 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
483 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
484 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
487 Use space as default thousands separator
489 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
490 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
491 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
493 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
496 New function notmuch-show-advance
498 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
499 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
500 be bound to SPC with:
502 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
504 Various performance improvements
509 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
510 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
513 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
514 ===========================
519 Fix crash in python bindings
521 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
522 for some, but not all users.
524 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
525 ===========================
530 Fix `--help` argument
532 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
533 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
534 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
536 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
537 =========================
539 New build and testing features
540 ------------------------------
542 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
543 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
544 prerequisites is improved.
546 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
548 New command-line features
549 -------------------------
551 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
553 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
554 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
557 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
559 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
560 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
561 favour of using stdout.
563 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
565 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
566 limit the number of results shown.
568 Add `notmuch count --output` option
570 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
571 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
574 New emacs UI features
575 ---------------------
577 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
579 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
580 starting with "tag:".
582 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
584 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
585 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
587 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
589 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
591 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
593 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
594 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
599 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
601 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
603 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
604 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
605 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
606 requires a database rebuild:
608 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
609 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
611 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
613 New collection of add-on tools
614 ------------------------------
616 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
617 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
618 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
621 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
623 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
624 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
625 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
627 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
628 ========================
630 New, general features
631 ---------------------
633 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
635 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
636 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
637 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
638 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
639 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
646 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
647 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
649 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
653 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
654 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
655 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
658 Python bindings changes
659 -----------------------
661 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
663 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
664 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
665 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
666 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
667 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
668 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
670 Ruby bindings changes
671 ---------------------
673 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
674 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
675 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
676 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
681 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
683 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
684 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
686 Reply formatting cleanup
687 ------------------------
689 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
690 MIME parts are being suppressed.
692 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
693 ========================
695 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
697 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
698 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
699 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
700 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
703 Improved Build system portability
705 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
706 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
707 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
709 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
711 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
713 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
715 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
716 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
717 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
719 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
720 ========================
722 Vim interface improvements
723 --------------------------
725 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
727 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
728 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
729 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
730 * fix from list reformatting in search view
731 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
733 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
735 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
736 * fix compose temp file name
738 Python Bindings changes
739 -----------------------
741 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
743 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
744 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
746 Build-System improvements
747 -------------------------
749 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
751 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
754 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
755 ==========================
760 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
762 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
763 people running gcc 4.4.5.
765 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
766 =======================
768 New, general features
769 ---------------------
771 Folder-based searching
773 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
774 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
775 storage). The syntax is as follows:
779 For example, one might use things such as:
785 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
786 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
788 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
789 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
790 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
791 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
793 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
794 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
795 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
798 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
799 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
801 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
805 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
806 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
807 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
809 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
811 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
812 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
814 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
815 notmuch will receive these tags.
817 New command-line features
818 -------------------------
820 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
822 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
823 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
825 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
827 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
828 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
829 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
831 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
833 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
834 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
835 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
836 which parts a signature part applies).
838 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
840 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
841 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
842 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
843 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
844 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
847 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
849 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
850 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
851 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
852 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
853 by translating it internally to the new call.
855 Performance improvements
856 ------------------------
858 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
860 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
861 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
862 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
864 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
865 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
867 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
869 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
870 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
871 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
873 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
874 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
875 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
876 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
878 Faster initial indexing
880 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
881 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
882 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
884 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
886 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
887 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
888 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
889 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
891 New emacs-interface features
892 ----------------------------
894 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
896 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
897 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
898 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
899 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
900 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
901 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
903 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
905 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
906 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
907 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
908 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
910 User-selectable From address
912 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
913 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
914 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
915 will prompt for the from address to use.
917 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
918 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
919 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
921 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
922 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
923 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
926 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
928 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
929 its parent, the subject is not shown.
931 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
933 When a message contains a line looking something like:
935 ----- Original Message -----
937 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
938 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
939 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
940 citations work much like conventional citations.
942 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
944 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
945 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
946 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
947 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
948 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
950 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
951 Notmuch After Tag Hook
953 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
955 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
956 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
957 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
959 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
961 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
962 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
963 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
964 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
965 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
967 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
969 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
972 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
974 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
976 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
978 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
981 Vim interface improvements
982 --------------------------
984 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
986 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
987 * Implementing archive in show view
988 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
989 * Add delete commands
992 Bindings improvements
993 ---------------------
995 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
997 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
998 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1000 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1002 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1006 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1007 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1008 `list(Messages)` works now
1009 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1011 These allow, for example:
1013 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1015 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1017 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1023 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1025 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1028 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1030 New build-system features
1031 -------------------------
1033 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1035 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1036 the configure script from some other directory:
1043 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1045 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1046 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1047 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1048 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1049 manual invocation of configure.
1051 New test-suite feature
1052 ----------------------
1054 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1056 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1057 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1058 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1059 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1060 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1063 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1065 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1066 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1067 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1068 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1069 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1070 are updated to take advantage of this.
1072 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1074 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1075 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1076 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1077 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1083 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1085 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1086 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1087 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1089 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1091 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1093 to:user@elsewhere.com
1095 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1097 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1099 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1101 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1102 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1103 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1106 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1107 from the Received headers in some cases
1109 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1110 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1112 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1114 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1116 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1118 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1119 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1120 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1122 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1123 -------------------------
1125 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1127 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1128 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1129 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1131 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1133 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1134 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1135 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1138 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1140 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1141 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1142 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1143 fixed to avoid this bug.
1145 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1147 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1148 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1150 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1151 ========================
1153 New, general features
1154 ---------------------
1156 Maildir-flag synchronization
1158 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1159 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1168 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1170 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1171 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1172 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1173 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1175 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1176 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1177 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1178 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1181 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1183 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1184 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1185 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1187 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1188 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1190 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1191 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1193 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1194 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1195 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1197 New library features
1198 --------------------
1200 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1202 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1203 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1204 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1205 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1207 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1208 message with the new function:
1210 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1212 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1213 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1214 over all available filenames for a given message.
1216 New command-line features
1217 -------------------------
1219 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1221 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1222 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1223 access to the mail store itself.
1225 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1226 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1227 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1228 name of a script containing:
1230 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1232 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1233 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1239 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1241 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1243 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1245 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1246 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1247 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1248 now produces nothing).
1250 Emacs interface improvements
1251 ----------------------------
1253 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1255 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1257 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1259 Display current thread subject in a header line
1261 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1263 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1265 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1266 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1267 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1268 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1269 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1270 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1271 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1273 Vim interface improvements
1274 --------------------------
1276 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1278 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1279 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1285 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1287 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1288 ========================
1290 New command-line features
1291 -------------------------
1293 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1295 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1296 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1297 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1299 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1300 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1301 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1302 scripts. For example:
1304 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1305 <operations-on> "$file"
1308 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1310 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1311 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1312 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1313 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1314 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1315 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1317 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1319 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1320 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1321 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1322 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1324 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1326 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1327 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1328 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1329 default rather than Bcc.
1331 New library features
1332 --------------------
1334 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1336 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1337 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1342 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1344 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1345 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1346 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1347 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1348 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1349 notmuch customize interface.
1351 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1353 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1354 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1355 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1356 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1358 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1360 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1361 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1362 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1363 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1365 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1367 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1368 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1369 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1370 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1371 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1372 notmuch customize interface.
1374 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1376 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1377 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1378 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1379 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1380 notmuch customize interface.
1382 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1384 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1385 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1386 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1387 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1390 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1392 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1393 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1394 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1397 New build-system features
1398 -------------------------
1400 Various portability fixes have been applied
1402 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1403 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1404 more portable than ever before.
1406 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1408 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1409 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1410 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1412 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1413 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1414 automatically run ldconfig.
1416 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1417 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1418 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1420 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1421 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1422 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1423 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1425 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1427 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1428 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1429 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1430 used in the resulting Makefile.
1432 New test-suite features
1433 -----------------------
1435 New modularization of test suite
1437 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1438 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1439 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1440 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1441 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1442 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1443 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1444 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1446 New testing of emacs interface
1448 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1449 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1450 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1451 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1452 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1453 database via the FCC setting.
1458 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1460 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1461 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1462 persistent error of the form:
1464 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1466 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1467 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1469 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1471 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1472 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1473 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1475 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1477 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1478 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1479 parsing the notmuch results).
1481 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1483 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1486 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1487 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1488 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1493 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1495 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1496 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1497 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1498 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1499 the emacs interface.
1501 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1503 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1504 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1505 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1507 Python-binding fixes
1508 --------------------
1510 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1512 Debian-specific fixes
1513 ---------------------
1515 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1517 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1518 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1519 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1522 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1523 ==========================
1528 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1530 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1531 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1532 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1533 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1535 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1537 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1538 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1539 want notmuch to crash.
1544 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1546 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1547 directory does not exist
1552 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1554 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1555 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1557 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1558 ========================
1560 New command-line features
1561 -------------------------
1563 User-configurable tags for new messages
1565 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1566 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1567 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1568 to specify this value.
1570 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1572 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1573 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1574 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1576 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1578 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1579 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1581 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1583 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1584 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1585 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1586 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1587 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1590 Indication of author names that match a search
1592 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1593 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1594 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1595 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1596 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1597 messages in the thread are listed first.
1599 New: Python bindings
1600 --------------------
1602 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1603 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1604 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1605 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1607 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1608 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1609 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1612 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1613 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1614 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1616 Emacs interface improvements
1617 ----------------------------
1619 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1621 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1622 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1623 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1624 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1625 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1626 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1627 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1628 but without any of the disadvantages).
1630 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1631 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1632 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1635 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1636 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1637 instead running something like:
1639 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1641 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1642 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1643 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1646 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1648 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1649 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1650 tweaked by the user.
1652 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1653 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1654 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1657 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1658 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1659 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1662 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1664 This support currently relies on an external program,
1665 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1666 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1667 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1668 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1669 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1672 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1673 notmuch) is available via:
1675 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1677 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1678 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1679 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1681 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1683 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1684 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1685 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1686 making this automatic in a future release.
1688 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1690 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1691 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1692 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1693 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1694 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1695 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1698 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1700 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1701 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1702 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1704 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1706 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1707 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1708 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1710 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1711 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1712 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1713 other representation.
1715 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1716 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1719 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1721 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1722 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1723 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1725 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1726 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1727 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1729 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1731 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1732 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1733 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1734 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1735 to display the search result.
1737 More flexible handling of header visibility
1739 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1740 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1741 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1742 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1743 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1744 with the 'h' keybinding.
1746 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1747 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1748 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1750 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1752 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1754 Customizable formatting of search results
1756 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1757 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1758 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1760 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1762 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1764 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1769 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1771 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1772 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1773 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1774 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1780 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1782 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1783 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1785 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1787 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1788 accept are now all accepted.
1793 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1795 Better display of output from failed tests
1797 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1798 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1800 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1801 ========================
1803 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1804 detailed release notes this time!
1806 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1807 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1809 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1810 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1811 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1812 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1819 Better guessing of From: header
1821 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1822 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1823 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1824 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1825 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1828 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1830 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1831 guaranteed to match all messages.
1833 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1835 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1836 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1837 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1838 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1839 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1842 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1845 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1846 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1847 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1848 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1853 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1855 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1856 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1857 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1858 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1860 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1862 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1864 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1865 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1866 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1868 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1870 Previously, the user might see:
1872 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1876 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1878 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1879 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1880 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1881 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1883 Emacs client features
1884 ---------------------
1886 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1888 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1889 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1890 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1891 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1892 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1894 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1897 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1898 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1899 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1900 search with the '*' binding.
1902 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1904 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1905 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1908 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1910 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1911 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1912 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1914 Build-system features
1915 ---------------------
1917 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1919 Add support to configure for many standard options
1921 We include actual support for:
1923 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1925 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1927 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1928 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1930 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1931 separate "make install-emacs"
1933 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1935 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1936 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1937 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1939 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1942 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1943 ========================
1945 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1947 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1948 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1950 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1951 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1952 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1953 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1954 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1955 tags from messages in a thread.
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