1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
22 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
23 notmuch_database_destroy
28 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
29 from the config file. Use something like:
33 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
34 "footer": "</body></html>",
43 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
45 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
46 ===========================
48 This is a bug fix and portability release.
53 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
55 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
57 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
59 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
61 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
67 Use --quick when starting emacs
69 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
71 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
73 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
75 Command-Line Interface
76 ----------------------
78 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
79 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
84 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
86 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
87 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
89 Fix for phrase indexing
91 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
92 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
93 will affect only newly indexed messages.
98 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
100 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
101 unintentionally removed.
103 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
104 =========================
109 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
110 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
111 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
112 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
113 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
114 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
115 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
116 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
117 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
123 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
125 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
126 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
127 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
128 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
129 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
130 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
131 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
132 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
134 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
136 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
137 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
138 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
139 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
142 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
144 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
145 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
146 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
147 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
148 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
149 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
150 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
155 Notmuch database upgrade
157 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
158 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
159 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
160 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
161 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
162 released version of Notmuch before now.
164 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
166 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
167 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
168 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
169 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
171 Message header parsing changes
173 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
174 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
175 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
176 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
177 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
178 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
180 Command-Line Interface
181 ----------------------
183 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
185 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
187 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
189 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
191 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
193 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
194 user does not want it.
196 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
198 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
199 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
200 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
201 support formatted output.
203 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
205 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
206 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
207 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
215 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
216 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
217 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
218 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
219 `~/.emacs` with these.
221 Changed format for saved searches
223 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
224 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
225 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
226 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
229 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
230 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
231 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
232 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
234 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
235 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
236 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
238 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
239 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
240 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
241 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
242 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
244 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
246 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
247 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
248 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
250 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
252 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
253 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
254 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
255 message had been unread).
257 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
258 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
259 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
260 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
262 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
263 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
264 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
266 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
267 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
268 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
269 to tags already present.
273 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
274 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
275 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
276 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
277 these differ from each other.
278 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
280 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
282 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
283 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
284 for these Emacs versions.
286 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
288 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
289 newlines before calling notmuch count.
291 Bug fixes for sender identities
293 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
294 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
295 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
297 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
299 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
300 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
301 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
302 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
304 Reply pushes mark before signature
306 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
307 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
308 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
310 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
312 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
313 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
319 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
320 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
322 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
323 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
324 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
325 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
327 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
328 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
329 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
330 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
331 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
333 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
335 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
336 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
338 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
339 =========================
341 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
342 ---------------------------------------
344 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
345 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
346 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
347 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
348 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
349 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
350 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
354 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
355 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
357 Command-Line Interface
358 ----------------------
360 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
362 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
363 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
364 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
365 print for each message.
367 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
368 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
369 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
370 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
372 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
374 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
375 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
376 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
378 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
380 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
381 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
382 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
383 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
385 `notmuch compact` command
387 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
388 functionality through a more convenient interface than
389 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
390 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
391 move the compacted database into place.
396 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
398 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
399 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
400 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
401 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
402 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
403 and multiple threads.
407 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
409 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
410 search, show and tree mode itself)
412 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
415 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
416 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
418 Customising `notmuch-tree`
420 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
421 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
422 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
423 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
424 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
425 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
426 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
428 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
430 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
431 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
432 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
433 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
434 thread when the search was performed.
436 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
438 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
439 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
440 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
442 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
444 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
445 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
448 Built-in help improvements
450 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
451 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
452 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
454 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
456 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
457 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
458 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
460 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
462 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
463 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
465 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
467 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
468 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
469 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
470 to move some of them to the common keymap.
472 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
474 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
475 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
476 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
477 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
479 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
481 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
482 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
483 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
485 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
487 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
488 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
489 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
491 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
493 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
494 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
495 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
496 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
497 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
499 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
501 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
502 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
503 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
504 the body part of the message.
509 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
510 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
511 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
513 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
514 =========================
516 Command-Line Interface
517 ----------------------
519 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
521 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
522 folder and notmuch index.
524 `notmuch count --batch` option
526 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
527 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
529 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
531 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
532 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
533 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
536 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
538 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
539 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
540 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
541 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
542 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
545 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
547 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
548 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
550 Top level option to specify configuration file
552 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
553 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
555 Bash command-line completion
557 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
558 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
559 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
560 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
561 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
562 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
563 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
564 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
565 bash-completion package.
567 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
572 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
574 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
575 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
576 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
577 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
578 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
579 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
580 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
581 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
583 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
585 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
586 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
587 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
589 Key bindings for next/previous thread
591 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
592 previous thread in the search results.
594 Better handling of errors in search buffers
596 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
597 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
599 Faster search and show
601 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
602 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
603 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
604 threads should show faster.
608 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
609 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
610 in question was now removed from this release.
615 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
616 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
621 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
623 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
624 ===========================
629 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
631 Internal test framework changes
632 -------------------------------
634 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
637 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
638 ===========================
640 Internal test framework changes
641 -------------------------------
643 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
644 build failures in non-interactive environments.
646 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
647 =========================
652 Date range search support
654 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
655 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
656 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
657 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
658 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
661 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
663 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
664 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
665 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
666 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
667 but may be removed in a future release.
669 Command-Line Interface
670 ----------------------
672 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
674 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
675 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
677 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
679 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
680 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
681 officially deprecated.
683 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
685 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
686 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
687 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
689 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
691 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
692 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
695 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
696 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
699 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
701 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
702 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
703 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
705 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
707 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
708 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
709 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
711 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
713 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
714 output separated by null characters rather than newline
715 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
716 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
721 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
723 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
724 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
725 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
726 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
728 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
730 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
731 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
732 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
733 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
734 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
735 the behavior of this, see
736 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
737 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
739 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
740 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
741 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
743 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
745 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
746 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
749 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
751 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
752 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
753 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
754 simply displayed in place of the message.
756 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
758 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
759 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
761 Improved text/calendar content handling
763 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
764 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
765 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
766 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
768 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
770 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
771 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
772 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
773 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
775 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
777 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
778 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
779 for HTML email containing images.
781 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
783 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
785 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
787 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
790 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
792 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
793 the point where it was.
795 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
797 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
798 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
799 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
800 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
801 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
803 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
805 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
806 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
807 thread instead of the message id.
809 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
810 -----------------------------
812 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
813 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
814 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
815 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
816 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
817 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
818 further details and installation.
823 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
825 Internal test framework changes
826 -------------------------------
828 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
830 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
831 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
832 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
833 can result in buggy behavior.
835 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
836 =========================
841 Maildir tag synchronization
843 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
844 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
845 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
846 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
847 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
848 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
851 Command-Line Interface
852 ----------------------
854 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
855 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
856 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
857 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
858 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
864 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
866 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
868 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
869 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
870 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
872 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
874 It is now possible to embed newlines in
875 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
878 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
880 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
881 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
882 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
883 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
884 inside the result or message.
886 Search now uses the JSON format internally
888 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
889 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
891 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
892 user-specified formatting
894 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
895 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
896 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
897 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
898 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
900 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
901 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
903 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
904 ===========================
909 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
910 compilation error for this contrib package.
912 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
913 ===========================
918 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
920 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
921 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
922 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
923 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
925 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
926 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
929 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
930 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
931 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
932 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
935 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
937 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
940 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
941 =========================
943 Command-Line Interface
944 ----------------------
948 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
949 for a reply message and full information about the original message
950 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
951 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
953 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
954 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
955 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
956 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
960 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
961 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
963 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
964 tag in your query, for example:
966 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
968 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
969 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
971 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
972 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
974 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
976 Raw show format changes
978 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
979 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
980 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
981 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
982 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
983 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
984 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
985 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
987 Listing configuration items
989 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
995 Changes to tagging interface
997 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
998 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
999 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1000 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1001 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1002 for more information.
1004 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1005 may need to update in custom configurations.
1007 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1009 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1010 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1011 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1012 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1015 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1016 -----------------------------
1018 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1019 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1020 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1021 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1022 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1023 contrib/ from now on.
1028 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1029 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1031 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1032 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1034 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1035 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1036 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1038 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1039 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1041 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1042 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1043 returning the new database object or directory object.
1050 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1051 compatible with go 1.
1053 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1054 =========================
1056 Command-Line Interface
1057 ----------------------
1061 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1062 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1063 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1064 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1066 Mail store folder/file ignore
1068 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1069 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1070 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1072 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1073 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1075 Unified help and manual pages
1077 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1078 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1081 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1083 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1084 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1092 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1093 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1094 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1095 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1097 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1099 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1100 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1102 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1105 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1106 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1107 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1109 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1111 should be changed to:
1113 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1115 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1117 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1118 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1120 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1122 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1123 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1124 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1125 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1126 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1127 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1131 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1132 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1133 of Mailing List Archives.
1135 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1137 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1138 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1141 Show view archiving key binding changes
1143 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1144 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1145 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1146 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1147 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1150 Support text/calendar MIME type
1152 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1155 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1157 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1158 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1159 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1160 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1162 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1164 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1165 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1166 messages blue by default in the search view.
1170 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1171 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1178 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1181 Python bindings changes
1182 -----------------------
1184 Python 3.2 compatibility
1186 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1188 Added missing unicode conversions
1190 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1191 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1192 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1197 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1199 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1200 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1201 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1202 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1203 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1205 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1206 ===========================
1211 Fix error handling in python bindings
1213 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1214 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1215 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1216 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1218 Quote MML tags in replies
1220 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1221 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1222 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1223 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1224 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1225 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1226 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1227 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1229 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1230 =========================
1232 Command-Line Interface
1233 ----------------------
1237 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1238 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1239 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1240 importing new messages into the database.
1242 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1244 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1245 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1246 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1251 Automatic tag query optimization
1253 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1254 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1255 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1257 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1259 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1260 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1261 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1266 Reduction of memory leaks
1268 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1269 and fixed in this release.
1276 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1277 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1278 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1281 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1283 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1284 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1285 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1288 Improvements in saved search management
1290 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1291 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1292 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1294 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1296 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1297 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1298 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1300 New face for crypto parts headers
1302 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1303 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1304 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1307 Use space as default thousands separator
1309 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1310 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1311 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1313 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1314 buttonized id: links
1316 New function notmuch-show-advance
1318 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1319 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1320 be bound to SPC with:
1322 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1324 Various performance improvements
1329 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1330 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1333 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1334 ===========================
1339 Fix crash in python bindings
1341 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1342 for some, but not all users.
1344 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1345 ===========================
1350 Fix `--help` argument
1352 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1353 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1354 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1356 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1357 =========================
1359 New build and testing features
1360 ------------------------------
1362 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1363 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1364 prerequisites is improved.
1366 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1368 New command-line features
1369 -------------------------
1371 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1373 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1374 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1377 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1379 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1380 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1381 favour of using stdout.
1383 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1385 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1386 limit the number of results shown.
1388 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1390 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1391 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1394 New emacs UI features
1395 ---------------------
1397 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1399 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1400 starting with "tag:".
1402 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1404 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1405 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1407 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1409 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1411 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1413 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1414 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1419 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1421 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1423 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1424 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1425 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1426 requires a database rebuild:
1428 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1429 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1431 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1433 New collection of add-on tools
1434 ------------------------------
1436 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1437 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1438 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1441 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1443 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1444 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1445 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1447 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1448 ========================
1450 New, general features
1451 ---------------------
1453 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1455 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1456 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1457 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1458 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1459 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1466 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1467 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1469 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1473 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1474 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1475 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1478 Python bindings changes
1479 -----------------------
1481 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1483 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1484 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1485 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1486 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1487 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1488 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1490 Ruby bindings changes
1491 ---------------------
1493 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1494 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1495 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1496 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1501 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1503 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1504 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1506 Reply formatting cleanup
1507 ------------------------
1509 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1510 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1512 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1513 ========================
1515 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1517 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1518 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1519 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1520 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1523 Improved Build system portability
1525 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1526 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1527 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1529 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1531 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1533 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1535 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1536 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1537 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1539 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1540 ========================
1542 Vim interface improvements
1543 --------------------------
1545 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1547 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1548 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1549 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1550 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1551 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1553 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1555 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1556 * fix compose temp file name
1558 Python Bindings changes
1559 -----------------------
1561 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1563 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1564 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1566 Build-System improvements
1567 -------------------------
1569 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1571 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1574 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1575 ==========================
1580 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1582 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1583 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1585 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1586 =======================
1588 New, general features
1589 ---------------------
1591 Folder-based searching
1593 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1594 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1595 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1599 For example, one might use things such as:
1605 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1606 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1608 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1609 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1610 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1611 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1613 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1614 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1615 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1618 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1619 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1621 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1623 Support for PGP/MIME
1625 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1626 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1627 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1629 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1631 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1632 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1634 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1635 notmuch will receive these tags.
1637 New command-line features
1638 -------------------------
1640 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1642 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1643 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1645 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1647 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1648 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1649 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1651 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1653 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1654 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1655 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1656 which parts a signature part applies).
1658 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1660 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1661 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1662 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1663 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1664 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1667 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1669 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1670 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1671 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1672 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1673 by translating it internally to the new call.
1675 Performance improvements
1676 ------------------------
1678 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1680 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1681 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1682 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1684 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1685 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1687 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1689 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1690 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1691 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1693 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1694 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1695 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1696 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1698 Faster initial indexing
1700 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1701 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1702 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1704 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1706 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1707 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1708 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1709 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1711 New emacs-interface features
1712 ----------------------------
1714 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1716 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1717 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1718 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1719 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1720 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1721 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1723 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1725 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1726 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1727 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1728 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1730 User-selectable From address
1732 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1733 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1734 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1735 will prompt for the from address to use.
1737 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1738 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1739 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1741 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1742 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1743 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1746 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1748 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1749 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1751 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1753 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1755 ----- Original Message -----
1757 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1758 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1759 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1760 citations work much like conventional citations.
1762 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1764 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1765 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1766 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1767 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1768 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1770 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1771 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1773 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1775 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1776 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1777 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1779 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1781 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1782 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1783 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1784 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1785 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1787 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1789 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1792 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1794 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1796 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1798 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1801 Vim interface improvements
1802 --------------------------
1804 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1806 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1807 * Implementing archive in show view
1808 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1809 * Add delete commands
1812 Bindings improvements
1813 ---------------------
1815 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1817 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1818 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1820 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1822 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1826 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1827 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1828 `list(Messages)` works now
1829 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1831 These allow, for example:
1833 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1835 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1837 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1843 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1845 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1848 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1850 New build-system features
1851 -------------------------
1853 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1855 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1856 the configure script from some other directory:
1863 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1865 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1866 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1867 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1868 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1869 manual invocation of configure.
1871 New test-suite feature
1872 ----------------------
1874 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1876 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1877 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1878 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1879 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1880 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1883 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1885 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1886 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1887 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1888 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1889 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1890 are updated to take advantage of this.
1892 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1894 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1895 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1896 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1897 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1903 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1905 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1906 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1907 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1909 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1911 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1913 to:user@elsewhere.com
1915 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1917 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1919 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1921 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1922 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1923 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1926 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1927 from the Received headers in some cases
1929 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1930 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1932 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1934 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1936 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1938 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1939 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1940 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1942 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1943 -------------------------
1945 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1947 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1948 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1949 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1951 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1953 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1954 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1955 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1958 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1960 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1961 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1962 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1963 fixed to avoid this bug.
1965 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1967 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1968 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1970 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1971 ========================
1973 New, general features
1974 ---------------------
1976 Maildir-flag synchronization
1978 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1979 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1988 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1990 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1991 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1992 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1993 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1995 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1996 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1997 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1998 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2001 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2003 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2004 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2005 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2007 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2008 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2010 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2011 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2013 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2014 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2015 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2017 New library features
2018 --------------------
2020 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2022 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2023 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2024 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2025 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2027 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2028 message with the new function:
2030 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2032 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2033 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2034 over all available filenames for a given message.
2036 New command-line features
2037 -------------------------
2039 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2041 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2042 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2043 access to the mail store itself.
2045 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2046 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2047 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2048 name of a script containing:
2050 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2052 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2053 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2059 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2061 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2063 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2065 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2066 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2067 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2068 now produces nothing).
2070 Emacs interface improvements
2071 ----------------------------
2073 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2075 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2077 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2079 Display current thread subject in a header line
2081 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2083 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2085 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2086 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2087 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2088 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2089 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2090 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2091 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2093 Vim interface improvements
2094 --------------------------
2096 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2098 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2099 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2105 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2107 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2108 ========================
2110 New command-line features
2111 -------------------------
2113 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2115 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2116 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2117 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2119 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2120 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2121 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2122 scripts. For example:
2124 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2125 <operations-on> "$file"
2128 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2130 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2131 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2132 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2133 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2134 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2135 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2137 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2139 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2140 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2141 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2142 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2144 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2146 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2147 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2148 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2149 default rather than Bcc.
2151 New library features
2152 --------------------
2154 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2156 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2157 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2162 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2164 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2165 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2166 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2167 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2168 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2169 notmuch customize interface.
2171 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2173 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2174 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2175 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2176 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2178 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2180 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2181 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2182 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2183 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2185 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2187 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2188 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2189 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2190 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2191 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2192 notmuch customize interface.
2194 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2196 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2197 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2198 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2199 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2200 notmuch customize interface.
2202 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2204 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2205 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2206 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2207 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2210 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2212 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2213 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2214 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2217 New build-system features
2218 -------------------------
2220 Various portability fixes have been applied
2222 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2223 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2224 more portable than ever before.
2226 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2228 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2229 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2230 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2232 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2233 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2234 automatically run ldconfig.
2236 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2237 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2238 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2240 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2241 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2242 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2243 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2245 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2247 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2248 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2249 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2250 used in the resulting Makefile.
2252 New test-suite features
2253 -----------------------
2255 New modularization of test suite
2257 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2258 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2259 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2260 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2261 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2262 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2263 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2264 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2266 New testing of emacs interface
2268 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2269 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2270 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2271 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2272 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2273 database via the FCC setting.
2278 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2280 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2281 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2282 persistent error of the form:
2284 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2286 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2287 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2289 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2291 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2292 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2293 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2295 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2297 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2298 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2299 parsing the notmuch results).
2301 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2303 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2306 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2307 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2308 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2313 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2315 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2316 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2317 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2318 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2319 the emacs interface.
2321 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2323 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2324 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2325 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2327 Python-binding fixes
2328 --------------------
2330 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2332 Debian-specific fixes
2333 ---------------------
2335 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2337 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2338 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2339 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2342 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2343 ==========================
2348 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2350 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2351 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2352 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2353 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2355 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2357 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2358 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2359 want notmuch to crash.
2364 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2366 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2367 directory does not exist
2372 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2374 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2375 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2377 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2378 ========================
2380 New command-line features
2381 -------------------------
2383 User-configurable tags for new messages
2385 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2386 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2387 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2388 to specify this value.
2390 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2392 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2393 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2394 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2396 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2398 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2399 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2401 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2403 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2404 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2405 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2406 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2407 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2410 Indication of author names that match a search
2412 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2413 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2414 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2415 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2416 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2417 messages in the thread are listed first.
2419 New: Python bindings
2420 --------------------
2422 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2423 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2424 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2425 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2427 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2428 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2429 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2432 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2433 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2434 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2436 Emacs interface improvements
2437 ----------------------------
2439 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2441 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2442 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2443 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2444 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2445 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2446 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2447 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2448 but without any of the disadvantages).
2450 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2451 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2452 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2455 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2456 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2457 instead running something like:
2459 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2461 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2462 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2463 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2466 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2468 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2469 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2470 tweaked by the user.
2472 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2473 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2474 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2477 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2478 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2479 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2482 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2484 This support currently relies on an external program,
2485 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2486 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2487 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2488 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2489 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2492 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2493 notmuch) is available via:
2495 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2497 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2498 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2499 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2501 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2503 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2504 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2505 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2506 making this automatic in a future release.
2508 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2510 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2511 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2512 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2513 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2514 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2515 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2518 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2520 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2521 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2522 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2524 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2526 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2527 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2528 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2530 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2531 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2532 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2533 other representation.
2535 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2536 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2539 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2541 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2542 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2543 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2545 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2546 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2547 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2549 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2551 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2552 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2553 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2554 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2555 to display the search result.
2557 More flexible handling of header visibility
2559 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2560 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2561 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2562 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2563 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2564 with the 'h' keybinding.
2566 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2567 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2568 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2570 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2572 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2574 Customizable formatting of search results
2576 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2577 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2578 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2580 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2582 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2584 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2589 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2591 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2592 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2593 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2594 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2600 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2602 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2603 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2605 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2607 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2608 accept are now all accepted.
2613 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2615 Better display of output from failed tests
2617 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2618 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2620 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2621 ========================
2623 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2624 detailed release notes this time!
2626 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2627 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2629 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2630 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2631 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2632 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2639 Better guessing of From: header
2641 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2642 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2643 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2644 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2645 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2648 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2650 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2651 guaranteed to match all messages.
2653 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2655 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2656 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2657 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2658 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2659 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2662 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2665 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2666 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2667 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2668 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2673 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2675 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2676 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2677 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2678 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2680 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2682 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2684 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2685 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2686 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2688 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2690 Previously, the user might see:
2692 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2696 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2698 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2699 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2700 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2701 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2703 Emacs client features
2704 ---------------------
2706 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2708 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2709 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2710 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2711 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2712 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2714 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2717 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2718 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2719 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2720 search with the '*' binding.
2722 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2724 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2725 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2728 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2730 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2731 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2732 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2734 Build-system features
2735 ---------------------
2737 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2739 Add support to configure for many standard options
2741 We include actual support for:
2743 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2745 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2747 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2748 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2750 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2751 separate "make install-emacs"
2753 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2755 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2756 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2757 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2759 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2762 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2763 ========================
2765 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2767 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2768 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2770 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2771 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2772 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2773 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2774 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2775 tags from messages in a thread.
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