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.
18 Date range search support
20 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
21 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
22 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
23 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
24 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
27 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
28 =========================
33 Maildir tag synchronization
35 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
36 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
37 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
38 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
39 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
40 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
43 Command-Line Interface
44 ----------------------
46 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
47 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
48 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
49 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
50 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
56 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
58 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
60 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
61 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
62 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
64 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
66 It is now possible to embed newlines in
67 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
70 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
72 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
73 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
74 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
75 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
76 inside the result or message.
78 Search now uses the JSON format internally
80 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
81 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
83 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
84 user-specified formatting
86 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
87 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
88 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
89 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
90 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
92 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
93 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
95 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
96 ===========================
101 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
102 compilation error for this contrib package.
104 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
105 ===========================
110 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
112 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
113 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
114 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
115 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
117 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
118 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
121 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
122 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
123 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
124 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
127 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
129 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
132 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
133 =========================
135 Command-Line Interface
136 ----------------------
140 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
141 for a reply message and full information about the original message
142 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
143 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
145 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
146 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
147 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
148 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
152 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
153 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
155 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
156 tag in your query, for example:
158 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
160 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
161 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
163 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
164 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
166 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
168 Raw show format changes
170 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
171 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
172 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
173 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
174 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
175 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
176 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
177 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
179 Listing configuration items
181 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
187 Changes to tagging interface
189 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
190 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
191 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
192 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
193 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
194 for more information.
196 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
197 may need to update in custom configurations.
199 Reply improvement using the JSON format
201 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
202 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
203 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
204 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
207 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
208 -----------------------------
210 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
211 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
212 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
213 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
214 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
215 contrib/ from now on.
220 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
221 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
223 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
224 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
226 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
227 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
228 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
230 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
231 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
233 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
234 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
235 returning the new database object or directory object.
242 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
243 compatible with go 1.
245 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
246 =========================
248 Command-Line Interface
249 ----------------------
253 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
254 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
255 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
256 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
258 Mail store folder/file ignore
260 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
261 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
262 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
264 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
265 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
267 Unified help and manual pages
269 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
270 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
273 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
275 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
276 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
284 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
285 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
286 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
287 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
289 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
291 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
292 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
294 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
297 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
298 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
299 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
301 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
303 should be changed to:
305 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
307 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
309 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
310 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
312 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
314 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
315 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
316 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
317 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
318 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
319 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
323 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
324 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
325 of Mailing List Archives.
327 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
329 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
330 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
333 Show view archiving key binding changes
335 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
336 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
337 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
338 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
339 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
342 Support text/calendar MIME type
344 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
347 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
349 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
350 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
351 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
352 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
354 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
356 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
357 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
358 messages blue by default in the search view.
362 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
363 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
370 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
373 Python bindings changes
374 -----------------------
376 Python 3.2 compatibility
378 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
380 Added missing unicode conversions
382 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
383 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
384 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
389 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
391 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
392 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
393 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
394 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
395 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
397 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
398 ===========================
403 Fix error handling in python bindings
405 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
406 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
407 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
408 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
410 Quote MML tags in replies
412 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
413 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
414 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
415 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
416 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
417 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
418 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
419 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
421 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
422 =========================
424 Command-Line Interface
425 ----------------------
429 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
430 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
431 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
432 importing new messages into the database.
434 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
436 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
437 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
438 sometimes. This is now fixed.
443 Automatic tag query optimization
445 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
446 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
447 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
449 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
451 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
452 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
453 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
458 Reduction of memory leaks
460 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
461 and fixed in this release.
468 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
469 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
470 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
473 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
475 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
476 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
477 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
480 Improvements in saved search management
482 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
483 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
484 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
486 Hooks for notmuch-hello
488 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
489 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
490 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
492 New face for crypto parts headers
494 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
495 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
496 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
499 Use space as default thousands separator
501 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
502 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
503 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
505 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
508 New function notmuch-show-advance
510 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
511 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
512 be bound to SPC with:
514 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
516 Various performance improvements
521 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
522 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
525 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
526 ===========================
531 Fix crash in python bindings
533 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
534 for some, but not all users.
536 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
537 ===========================
542 Fix `--help` argument
544 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
545 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
546 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
548 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
549 =========================
551 New build and testing features
552 ------------------------------
554 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
555 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
556 prerequisites is improved.
558 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
560 New command-line features
561 -------------------------
563 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
565 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
566 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
569 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
571 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
572 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
573 favour of using stdout.
575 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
577 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
578 limit the number of results shown.
580 Add `notmuch count --output` option
582 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
583 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
586 New emacs UI features
587 ---------------------
589 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
591 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
592 starting with "tag:".
594 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
596 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
597 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
599 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
601 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
603 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
605 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
606 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
611 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
613 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
615 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
616 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
617 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
618 requires a database rebuild:
620 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
621 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
623 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
625 New collection of add-on tools
626 ------------------------------
628 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
629 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
630 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
633 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
635 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
636 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
637 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
639 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
640 ========================
642 New, general features
643 ---------------------
645 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
647 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
648 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
649 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
650 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
651 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
658 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
659 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
661 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
665 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
666 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
667 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
670 Python bindings changes
671 -----------------------
673 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
675 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
676 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
677 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
678 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
679 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
680 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
682 Ruby bindings changes
683 ---------------------
685 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
686 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
687 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
688 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
693 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
695 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
696 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
698 Reply formatting cleanup
699 ------------------------
701 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
702 MIME parts are being suppressed.
704 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
705 ========================
707 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
709 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
710 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
711 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
712 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
715 Improved Build system portability
717 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
718 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
719 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
721 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
723 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
725 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
727 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
728 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
729 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
731 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
732 ========================
734 Vim interface improvements
735 --------------------------
737 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
739 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
740 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
741 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
742 * fix from list reformatting in search view
743 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
745 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
747 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
748 * fix compose temp file name
750 Python Bindings changes
751 -----------------------
753 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
755 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
756 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
758 Build-System improvements
759 -------------------------
761 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
763 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
766 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
767 ==========================
772 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
774 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
775 people running gcc 4.4.5.
777 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
778 =======================
780 New, general features
781 ---------------------
783 Folder-based searching
785 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
786 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
787 storage). The syntax is as follows:
791 For example, one might use things such as:
797 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
798 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
800 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
801 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
802 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
803 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
805 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
806 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
807 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
810 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
811 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
813 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
817 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
818 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
819 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
821 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
823 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
824 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
826 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
827 notmuch will receive these tags.
829 New command-line features
830 -------------------------
832 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
834 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
835 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
837 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
839 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
840 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
841 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
843 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
845 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
846 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
847 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
848 which parts a signature part applies).
850 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
852 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
853 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
854 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
855 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
856 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
859 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
861 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
862 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
863 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
864 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
865 by translating it internally to the new call.
867 Performance improvements
868 ------------------------
870 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
872 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
873 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
874 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
876 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
877 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
879 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
881 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
882 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
883 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
885 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
886 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
887 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
888 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
890 Faster initial indexing
892 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
893 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
894 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
896 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
898 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
899 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
900 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
901 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
903 New emacs-interface features
904 ----------------------------
906 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
908 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
909 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
910 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
911 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
912 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
913 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
915 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
917 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
918 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
919 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
920 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
922 User-selectable From address
924 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
925 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
926 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
927 will prompt for the from address to use.
929 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
930 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
931 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
933 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
934 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
935 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
938 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
940 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
941 its parent, the subject is not shown.
943 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
945 When a message contains a line looking something like:
947 ----- Original Message -----
949 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
950 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
951 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
952 citations work much like conventional citations.
954 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
956 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
957 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
958 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
959 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
960 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
962 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
963 Notmuch After Tag Hook
965 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
967 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
968 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
969 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
971 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
973 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
974 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
975 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
976 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
977 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
979 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
981 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
984 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
986 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
988 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
990 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
993 Vim interface improvements
994 --------------------------
996 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
998 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
999 * Implementing archive in show view
1000 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1001 * Add delete commands
1004 Bindings improvements
1005 ---------------------
1007 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1009 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1010 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1012 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1014 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1018 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1019 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1020 `list(Messages)` works now
1021 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1023 These allow, for example:
1025 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1027 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1029 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1035 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1037 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1040 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1042 New build-system features
1043 -------------------------
1045 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1047 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1048 the configure script from some other directory:
1055 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1057 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1058 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1059 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1060 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1061 manual invocation of configure.
1063 New test-suite feature
1064 ----------------------
1066 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1068 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1069 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1070 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1071 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1072 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1075 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1077 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1078 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1079 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1080 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1081 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1082 are updated to take advantage of this.
1084 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1086 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1087 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1088 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1089 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1095 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1097 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1098 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1099 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1101 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1103 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1105 to:user@elsewhere.com
1107 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1109 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1111 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1113 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1114 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1115 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1118 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1119 from the Received headers in some cases
1121 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1122 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1124 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1126 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1128 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1130 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1131 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1132 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1134 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1135 -------------------------
1137 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1139 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1140 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1141 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1143 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1145 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1146 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1147 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1150 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1152 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1153 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1154 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1155 fixed to avoid this bug.
1157 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1159 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1160 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1162 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1163 ========================
1165 New, general features
1166 ---------------------
1168 Maildir-flag synchronization
1170 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1171 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1180 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1182 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1183 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1184 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1185 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1187 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1188 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1189 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1190 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1193 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1195 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1196 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1197 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1199 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1200 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1202 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1203 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1205 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1206 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1207 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1209 New library features
1210 --------------------
1212 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1214 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1215 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1216 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1217 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1219 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1220 message with the new function:
1222 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1224 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1225 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1226 over all available filenames for a given message.
1228 New command-line features
1229 -------------------------
1231 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1233 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1234 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1235 access to the mail store itself.
1237 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1238 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1239 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1240 name of a script containing:
1242 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1244 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1245 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1251 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1253 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1255 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1257 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1258 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1259 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1260 now produces nothing).
1262 Emacs interface improvements
1263 ----------------------------
1265 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1267 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1269 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1271 Display current thread subject in a header line
1273 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1275 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1277 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1278 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1279 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1280 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1281 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1282 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1283 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1285 Vim interface improvements
1286 --------------------------
1288 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1290 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1291 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1297 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1299 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1300 ========================
1302 New command-line features
1303 -------------------------
1305 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1307 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1308 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1309 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1311 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1312 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1313 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1314 scripts. For example:
1316 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1317 <operations-on> "$file"
1320 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1322 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1323 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1324 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1325 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1326 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1327 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1329 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1331 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1332 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1333 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1334 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1336 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1338 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1339 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1340 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1341 default rather than Bcc.
1343 New library features
1344 --------------------
1346 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1348 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1349 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1354 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1356 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1357 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1358 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1359 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1360 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1361 notmuch customize interface.
1363 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1365 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1366 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1367 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1368 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1370 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1372 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1373 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1374 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1375 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1377 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1379 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1380 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1381 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1382 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1383 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1384 notmuch customize interface.
1386 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1388 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1389 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1390 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1391 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1392 notmuch customize interface.
1394 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1396 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1397 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1398 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1399 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1402 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1404 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1405 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1406 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1409 New build-system features
1410 -------------------------
1412 Various portability fixes have been applied
1414 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1415 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1416 more portable than ever before.
1418 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1420 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1421 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1422 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1424 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1425 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1426 automatically run ldconfig.
1428 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1429 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1430 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1432 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1433 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1434 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1435 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1437 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1439 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1440 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1441 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1442 used in the resulting Makefile.
1444 New test-suite features
1445 -----------------------
1447 New modularization of test suite
1449 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1450 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1451 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1452 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1453 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1454 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1455 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1456 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1458 New testing of emacs interface
1460 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1461 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1462 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1463 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1464 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1465 database via the FCC setting.
1470 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1472 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1473 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1474 persistent error of the form:
1476 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1478 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1479 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1481 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1483 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1484 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1485 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1487 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1489 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1490 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1491 parsing the notmuch results).
1493 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1495 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1498 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1499 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1500 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1505 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1507 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1508 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1509 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1510 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1511 the emacs interface.
1513 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1515 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1516 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1517 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1519 Python-binding fixes
1520 --------------------
1522 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1524 Debian-specific fixes
1525 ---------------------
1527 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1529 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1530 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1531 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1534 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1535 ==========================
1540 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1542 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1543 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1544 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1545 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1547 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1549 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1550 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1551 want notmuch to crash.
1556 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1558 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1559 directory does not exist
1564 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1566 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1567 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1569 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1570 ========================
1572 New command-line features
1573 -------------------------
1575 User-configurable tags for new messages
1577 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1578 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1579 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1580 to specify this value.
1582 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1584 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1585 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1586 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1588 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1590 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1591 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1593 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1595 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1596 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1597 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1598 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1599 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1602 Indication of author names that match a search
1604 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1605 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1606 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1607 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1608 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1609 messages in the thread are listed first.
1611 New: Python bindings
1612 --------------------
1614 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1615 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1616 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1617 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1619 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1620 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1621 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1624 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1625 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1626 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1628 Emacs interface improvements
1629 ----------------------------
1631 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1633 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1634 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1635 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1636 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1637 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1638 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1639 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1640 but without any of the disadvantages).
1642 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1643 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1644 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1647 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1648 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1649 instead running something like:
1651 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1653 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1654 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1655 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1658 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1660 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1661 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1662 tweaked by the user.
1664 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1665 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1666 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1669 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1670 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1671 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1674 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1676 This support currently relies on an external program,
1677 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1678 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1679 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1680 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1681 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1684 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1685 notmuch) is available via:
1687 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1689 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1690 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1691 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1693 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1695 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1696 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1697 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1698 making this automatic in a future release.
1700 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1702 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1703 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1704 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1705 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1706 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1707 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1710 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1712 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1713 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1714 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1716 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1718 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1719 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1720 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1722 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1723 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1724 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1725 other representation.
1727 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1728 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1731 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1733 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1734 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1735 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1737 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1738 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1739 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1741 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1743 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1744 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1745 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1746 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1747 to display the search result.
1749 More flexible handling of header visibility
1751 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1752 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1753 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1754 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1755 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1756 with the 'h' keybinding.
1758 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1759 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1760 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1762 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1764 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1766 Customizable formatting of search results
1768 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1769 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1770 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1772 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1774 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1776 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1781 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1783 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1784 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1785 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1786 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1792 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1794 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1795 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1797 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1799 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1800 accept are now all accepted.
1805 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1807 Better display of output from failed tests
1809 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1810 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1812 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1813 ========================
1815 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1816 detailed release notes this time!
1818 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1819 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1821 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1822 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1823 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1824 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1831 Better guessing of From: header
1833 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1834 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1835 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1836 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1837 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1840 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1842 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1843 guaranteed to match all messages.
1845 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1847 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1848 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1849 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1850 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1851 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1854 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1857 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1858 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1859 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1860 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1865 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1867 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1868 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1869 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1870 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1872 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1874 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1876 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1877 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1878 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1880 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1882 Previously, the user might see:
1884 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1888 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1890 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1891 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1892 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1893 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1895 Emacs client features
1896 ---------------------
1898 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1900 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1901 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1902 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1903 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1904 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1906 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1909 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1910 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1911 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1912 search with the '*' binding.
1914 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1916 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1917 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1920 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1922 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1923 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1924 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1926 Build-system features
1927 ---------------------
1929 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1931 Add support to configure for many standard options
1933 We include actual support for:
1935 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1937 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1939 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1940 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1942 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1943 separate "make install-emacs"
1945 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1947 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1948 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1949 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1951 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1954 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1955 ========================
1957 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1959 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1960 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1962 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1963 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1964 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1965 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1966 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1967 tags from messages in a thread.
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