1 Notmuch 0.19~rc2 (2014-11-09)
2 =============================
7 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
9 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
10 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
11 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
12 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
13 script callers should still check the return value.
15 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
17 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
18 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
19 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
20 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
21 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
22 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
23 and returning success even if indexing fails).
25 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
27 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
28 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
29 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
31 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
33 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
34 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
35 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
36 have at least `N` files associated with them.
38 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
40 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
41 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
42 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
43 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
44 count of duplicate addresses.
49 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
51 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
52 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
53 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
56 Expanded default saved search settings
58 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
59 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
61 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
63 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
64 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
65 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
67 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
69 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
70 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
71 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
72 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
73 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
74 the variable for details.
79 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
81 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
82 Representing these independently of the database version number will
83 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
84 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
86 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
88 Previously, library users were required to call
89 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
90 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
91 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
92 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
93 too out of date for that API.
95 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
97 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
98 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
99 atomic section will be aborted.
101 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
102 notmuch_database_destroy
104 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
106 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
107 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
108 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
109 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
110 messages into the same thread.
115 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
116 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
117 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
118 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
119 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
120 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
125 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
126 from the config file. Use something like:
130 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
131 "footer": "</body></html>",
140 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
145 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
146 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
147 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
149 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
150 ===========================
155 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
157 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
159 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
161 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
162 structure for signatures changed slightly.
164 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
166 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
169 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
170 ===========================
172 This is a bug fix and portability release.
177 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
179 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
181 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
183 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
185 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
191 Use --quick when starting emacs
193 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
195 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
197 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
199 Command-Line Interface
200 ----------------------
202 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
203 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
208 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
210 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
211 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
213 Fix for phrase indexing
215 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
216 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
217 will affect only newly indexed messages.
222 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
224 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
225 unintentionally removed.
227 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
228 =========================
233 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
234 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
235 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
236 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
237 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
238 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
239 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
240 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
241 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
247 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
249 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
250 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
251 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
252 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
253 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
254 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
255 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
256 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
258 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
260 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
261 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
262 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
263 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
266 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
268 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
269 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
270 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
271 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
272 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
273 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
274 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
279 Notmuch database upgrade
281 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
282 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
283 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
284 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
285 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
286 released version of Notmuch before now.
288 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
290 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
291 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
292 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
293 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
295 Message header parsing changes
297 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
298 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
299 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
300 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
301 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
302 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
304 Command-Line Interface
305 ----------------------
307 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
309 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
311 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
313 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
315 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
317 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
318 user does not want it.
320 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
322 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
323 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
324 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
325 support formatted output.
327 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
329 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
330 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
331 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
339 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
340 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
341 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
342 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
343 `~/.emacs` with these.
345 Changed format for saved searches
347 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
348 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
349 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
350 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
353 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
354 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
355 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
356 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
358 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
359 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
360 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
362 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
363 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
364 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
365 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
366 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
368 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
370 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
371 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
372 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
374 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
376 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
377 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
378 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
379 message had been unread).
381 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
382 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
383 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
384 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
386 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
387 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
388 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
390 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
391 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
392 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
393 to tags already present.
397 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
398 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
399 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
400 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
401 these differ from each other.
402 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
404 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
406 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
407 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
408 for these Emacs versions.
410 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
412 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
413 newlines before calling notmuch count.
415 Bug fixes for sender identities
417 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
418 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
419 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
421 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
423 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
424 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
425 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
426 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
428 Reply pushes mark before signature
430 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
431 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
432 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
434 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
436 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
437 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
443 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
444 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
446 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
447 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
448 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
449 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
451 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
452 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
453 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
454 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
455 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
457 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
459 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
460 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
462 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
463 =========================
465 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
466 ---------------------------------------
468 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
469 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
470 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
471 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
472 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
473 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
474 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
478 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
479 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
481 Command-Line Interface
482 ----------------------
484 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
486 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
487 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
488 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
489 print for each message.
491 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
492 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
493 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
494 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
496 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
498 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
499 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
500 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
502 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
504 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
505 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
506 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
507 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
509 `notmuch compact` command
511 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
512 functionality through a more convenient interface than
513 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
514 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
515 move the compacted database into place.
520 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
522 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
523 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
524 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
525 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
526 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
527 and multiple threads.
531 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
533 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
534 search, show and tree mode itself)
536 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
539 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
540 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
542 Customising `notmuch-tree`
544 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
545 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
546 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
547 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
548 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
549 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
550 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
552 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
554 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
555 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
556 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
557 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
558 thread when the search was performed.
560 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
562 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
563 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
564 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
566 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
568 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
569 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
572 Built-in help improvements
574 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
575 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
576 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
578 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
580 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
581 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
582 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
584 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
586 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
587 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
589 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
591 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
592 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
593 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
594 to move some of them to the common keymap.
596 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
598 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
599 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
600 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
601 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
603 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
605 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
606 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
607 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
609 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
611 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
612 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
613 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
615 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
617 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
618 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
619 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
620 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
621 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
623 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
625 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
626 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
627 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
628 the body part of the message.
633 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
634 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
635 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
637 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
638 =========================
640 Command-Line Interface
641 ----------------------
643 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
645 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
646 folder and notmuch index.
648 `notmuch count --batch` option
650 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
651 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
653 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
655 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
656 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
657 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
660 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
662 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
663 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
664 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
665 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
666 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
669 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
671 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
672 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
674 Top level option to specify configuration file
676 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
677 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
679 Bash command-line completion
681 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
682 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
683 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
684 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
685 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
686 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
687 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
688 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
689 bash-completion package.
691 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
696 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
698 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
699 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
700 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
701 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
702 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
703 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
704 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
705 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
707 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
709 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
710 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
711 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
713 Key bindings for next/previous thread
715 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
716 previous thread in the search results.
718 Better handling of errors in search buffers
720 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
721 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
723 Faster search and show
725 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
726 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
727 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
728 threads should show faster.
732 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
733 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
734 in question was now removed from this release.
739 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
740 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
745 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
747 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
748 ===========================
753 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
755 Internal test framework changes
756 -------------------------------
758 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
761 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
762 ===========================
764 Internal test framework changes
765 -------------------------------
767 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
768 build failures in non-interactive environments.
770 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
771 =========================
776 Date range search support
778 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
779 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
780 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
781 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
782 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
785 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
787 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
788 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
789 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
790 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
791 but may be removed in a future release.
793 Command-Line Interface
794 ----------------------
796 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
798 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
799 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
801 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
803 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
804 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
805 officially deprecated.
807 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
809 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
810 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
811 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
813 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
815 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
816 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
819 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
820 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
823 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
825 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
826 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
827 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
829 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
831 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
832 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
833 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
835 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
837 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
838 output separated by null characters rather than newline
839 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
840 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
845 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
847 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
848 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
849 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
850 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
852 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
854 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
855 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
856 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
857 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
858 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
859 the behavior of this, see
860 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
861 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
863 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
864 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
865 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
867 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
869 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
870 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
873 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
875 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
876 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
877 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
878 simply displayed in place of the message.
880 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
882 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
883 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
885 Improved text/calendar content handling
887 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
888 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
889 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
890 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
892 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
894 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
895 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
896 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
897 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
899 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
901 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
902 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
903 for HTML email containing images.
905 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
907 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
909 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
911 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
914 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
916 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
917 the point where it was.
919 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
921 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
922 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
923 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
924 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
925 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
927 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
929 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
930 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
931 thread instead of the message id.
933 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
934 -----------------------------
936 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
937 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
938 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
939 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
940 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
941 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
942 further details and installation.
947 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
949 Internal test framework changes
950 -------------------------------
952 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
954 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
955 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
956 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
957 can result in buggy behavior.
959 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
960 =========================
965 Maildir tag synchronization
967 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
968 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
969 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
970 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
971 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
972 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
975 Command-Line Interface
976 ----------------------
978 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
979 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
980 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
981 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
982 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
988 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
990 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
992 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
993 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
994 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
996 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
998 It is now possible to embed newlines in
999 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1000 span multiple lines.
1002 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1004 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1005 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1006 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1007 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1008 inside the result or message.
1010 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1012 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1013 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1015 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1016 user-specified formatting
1018 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1019 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1020 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1021 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1022 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1024 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1025 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1027 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1028 ===========================
1033 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1034 compilation error for this contrib package.
1036 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1037 ===========================
1042 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1044 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1045 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1046 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1047 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1049 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1050 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1053 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1054 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1055 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1056 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1059 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1061 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1064 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1065 =========================
1067 Command-Line Interface
1068 ----------------------
1072 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1073 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1074 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1075 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1077 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1078 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1079 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1080 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1084 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1085 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1087 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1088 tag in your query, for example:
1090 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1092 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1093 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1095 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1096 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1098 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1100 Raw show format changes
1102 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1103 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1104 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1105 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1106 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1107 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1108 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1109 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1111 Listing configuration items
1113 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1119 Changes to tagging interface
1121 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1122 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1123 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1124 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1125 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1126 for more information.
1128 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1129 may need to update in custom configurations.
1131 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1133 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1134 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1135 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1136 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1139 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1140 -----------------------------
1142 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1143 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1144 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1145 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1146 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1147 contrib/ from now on.
1152 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1153 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1155 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1156 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1158 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1159 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1160 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1162 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1163 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1165 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1166 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1167 returning the new database object or directory object.
1174 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1175 compatible with go 1.
1177 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1178 =========================
1180 Command-Line Interface
1181 ----------------------
1185 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1186 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1187 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1188 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1190 Mail store folder/file ignore
1192 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1193 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1194 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1196 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1197 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1199 Unified help and manual pages
1201 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1202 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1205 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1207 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1208 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1216 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1217 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1218 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1219 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1221 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1223 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1224 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1226 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1229 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1230 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1231 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1233 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1235 should be changed to:
1237 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1239 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1241 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1242 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1244 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1246 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1247 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1248 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1249 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1250 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1251 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1255 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1256 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1257 of Mailing List Archives.
1259 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1261 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1262 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1265 Show view archiving key binding changes
1267 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1268 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1269 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1270 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1271 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1274 Support text/calendar MIME type
1276 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1279 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1281 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1282 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1283 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1284 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1286 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1288 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1289 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1290 messages blue by default in the search view.
1294 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1295 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1302 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1305 Python bindings changes
1306 -----------------------
1308 Python 3.2 compatibility
1310 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1312 Added missing unicode conversions
1314 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1315 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1316 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1321 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1323 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1324 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1325 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1326 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1327 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1329 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1330 ===========================
1335 Fix error handling in python bindings
1337 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1338 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1339 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1340 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1342 Quote MML tags in replies
1344 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1345 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1346 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1347 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1348 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1349 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1350 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1351 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1353 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1354 =========================
1356 Command-Line Interface
1357 ----------------------
1361 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1362 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1363 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1364 importing new messages into the database.
1366 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1368 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1369 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1370 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1375 Automatic tag query optimization
1377 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1378 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1379 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1381 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1383 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1384 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1385 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1390 Reduction of memory leaks
1392 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1393 and fixed in this release.
1400 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1401 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1402 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1405 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1407 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1408 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1409 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1412 Improvements in saved search management
1414 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1415 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1416 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1418 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1420 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1421 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1422 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1424 New face for crypto parts headers
1426 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1427 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1428 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1431 Use space as default thousands separator
1433 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1434 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1435 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1437 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1438 buttonized id: links
1440 New function notmuch-show-advance
1442 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1443 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1444 be bound to SPC with:
1446 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1448 Various performance improvements
1453 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1454 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1457 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1458 ===========================
1463 Fix crash in python bindings
1465 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1466 for some, but not all users.
1468 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1469 ===========================
1474 Fix `--help` argument
1476 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1477 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1478 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1480 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1481 =========================
1483 New build and testing features
1484 ------------------------------
1486 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1487 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1488 prerequisites is improved.
1490 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1492 New command-line features
1493 -------------------------
1495 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1497 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1498 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1501 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1503 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1504 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1505 favour of using stdout.
1507 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1509 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1510 limit the number of results shown.
1512 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1514 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1515 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1518 New emacs UI features
1519 ---------------------
1521 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1523 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1524 starting with "tag:".
1526 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1528 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1529 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1531 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1533 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1535 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1537 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1538 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1543 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1545 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1547 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1548 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1549 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1550 requires a database rebuild:
1552 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1553 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1555 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1557 New collection of add-on tools
1558 ------------------------------
1560 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1561 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1562 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1565 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1567 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1568 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1569 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1571 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1572 ========================
1574 New, general features
1575 ---------------------
1577 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1579 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1580 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1581 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1582 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1583 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1590 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1591 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1593 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1597 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1598 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1599 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1602 Python bindings changes
1603 -----------------------
1605 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1607 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1608 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1609 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1610 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1611 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1612 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1614 Ruby bindings changes
1615 ---------------------
1617 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1618 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1619 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1620 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1625 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1627 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1628 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1630 Reply formatting cleanup
1631 ------------------------
1633 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1634 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1636 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1637 ========================
1639 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1641 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1642 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1643 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1644 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1647 Improved Build system portability
1649 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1650 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1651 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1653 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1655 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1657 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1659 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1660 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1661 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1663 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1664 ========================
1666 Vim interface improvements
1667 --------------------------
1669 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1671 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1672 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1673 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1674 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1675 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1677 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1679 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1680 * fix compose temp file name
1682 Python Bindings changes
1683 -----------------------
1685 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1687 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1688 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1690 Build-System improvements
1691 -------------------------
1693 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1695 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1698 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1699 ==========================
1704 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1706 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1707 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1709 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1710 =======================
1712 New, general features
1713 ---------------------
1715 Folder-based searching
1717 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1718 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1719 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1723 For example, one might use things such as:
1729 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1730 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1732 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1733 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1734 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1735 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1737 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1738 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1739 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1742 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1743 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1745 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1747 Support for PGP/MIME
1749 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1750 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1751 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1753 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1755 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1756 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1758 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1759 notmuch will receive these tags.
1761 New command-line features
1762 -------------------------
1764 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1766 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1767 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1769 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1771 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1772 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1773 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1775 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1777 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1778 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1779 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1780 which parts a signature part applies).
1782 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1784 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1785 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1786 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1787 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1788 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1791 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1793 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1794 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1795 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1796 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1797 by translating it internally to the new call.
1799 Performance improvements
1800 ------------------------
1802 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1804 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1805 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1806 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1808 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1809 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1811 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1813 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1814 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1815 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1817 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1818 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1819 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1820 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1822 Faster initial indexing
1824 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1825 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1826 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1828 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1830 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1831 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1832 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1833 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1835 New emacs-interface features
1836 ----------------------------
1838 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1840 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1841 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1842 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1843 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1844 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1845 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1847 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1849 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1850 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1851 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1852 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1854 User-selectable From address
1856 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1857 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1858 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1859 will prompt for the from address to use.
1861 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1862 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1863 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1865 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1866 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1867 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1870 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1872 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1873 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1875 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1877 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1879 ----- Original Message -----
1881 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1882 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1883 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1884 citations work much like conventional citations.
1886 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1888 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1889 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1890 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1891 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1892 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1894 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1895 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1897 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1899 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1900 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1901 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1903 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1905 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1906 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1907 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1908 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1909 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1911 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1913 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1916 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1918 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1920 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1922 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1925 Vim interface improvements
1926 --------------------------
1928 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1930 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1931 * Implementing archive in show view
1932 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1933 * Add delete commands
1936 Bindings improvements
1937 ---------------------
1939 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1941 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1942 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1944 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1946 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1950 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1951 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1952 `list(Messages)` works now
1953 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1955 These allow, for example:
1957 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1959 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1961 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1967 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1969 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1972 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1974 New build-system features
1975 -------------------------
1977 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1979 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1980 the configure script from some other directory:
1987 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1989 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1990 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1991 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1992 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1993 manual invocation of configure.
1995 New test-suite feature
1996 ----------------------
1998 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2000 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2001 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2002 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2003 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2004 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2007 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2009 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2010 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2011 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2012 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2013 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2014 are updated to take advantage of this.
2016 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2018 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2019 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2020 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2021 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2027 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2029 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2030 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2031 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2033 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2035 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2037 to:user@elsewhere.com
2039 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2041 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2043 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2045 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2046 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2047 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2050 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2051 from the Received headers in some cases
2053 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2054 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2056 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2058 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2060 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2062 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2063 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2064 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2066 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2067 -------------------------
2069 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2071 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2072 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2073 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2075 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2077 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2078 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2079 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2082 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2084 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2085 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2086 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2087 fixed to avoid this bug.
2089 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2091 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2092 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2094 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2095 ========================
2097 New, general features
2098 ---------------------
2100 Maildir-flag synchronization
2102 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2103 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2112 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2114 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2115 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2116 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2117 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2119 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2120 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2121 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2122 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2125 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2127 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2128 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2129 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2131 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2132 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2134 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2135 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2137 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2138 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2139 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2141 New library features
2142 --------------------
2144 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2146 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2147 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2148 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2149 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2151 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2152 message with the new function:
2154 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2156 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2157 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2158 over all available filenames for a given message.
2160 New command-line features
2161 -------------------------
2163 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2165 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2166 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2167 access to the mail store itself.
2169 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2170 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2171 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2172 name of a script containing:
2174 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2176 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2177 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2183 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2185 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2187 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2189 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2190 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2191 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2192 now produces nothing).
2194 Emacs interface improvements
2195 ----------------------------
2197 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2199 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2201 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2203 Display current thread subject in a header line
2205 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2207 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2209 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2210 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2211 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2212 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2213 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2214 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2215 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2217 Vim interface improvements
2218 --------------------------
2220 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2222 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2223 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2229 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2231 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2232 ========================
2234 New command-line features
2235 -------------------------
2237 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2239 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2240 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2241 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2243 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2244 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2245 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2246 scripts. For example:
2248 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2249 <operations-on> "$file"
2252 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2254 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2255 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2256 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2257 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2258 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2259 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2261 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2263 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2264 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2265 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2266 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2268 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2270 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2271 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2272 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2273 default rather than Bcc.
2275 New library features
2276 --------------------
2278 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2280 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2281 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2286 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2288 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2289 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2290 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2291 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2292 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2293 notmuch customize interface.
2295 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2297 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2298 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2299 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2300 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2302 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2304 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2305 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2306 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2307 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2309 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2311 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2312 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2313 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2314 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2315 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2316 notmuch customize interface.
2318 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2320 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2321 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2322 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2323 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2324 notmuch customize interface.
2326 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2328 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2329 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2330 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2331 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2334 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2336 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2337 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2338 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2341 New build-system features
2342 -------------------------
2344 Various portability fixes have been applied
2346 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2347 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2348 more portable than ever before.
2350 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2352 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2353 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2354 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2356 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2357 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2358 automatically run ldconfig.
2360 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2361 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2362 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2364 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2365 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2366 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2367 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2369 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2371 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2372 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2373 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2374 used in the resulting Makefile.
2376 New test-suite features
2377 -----------------------
2379 New modularization of test suite
2381 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2382 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2383 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2384 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2385 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2386 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2387 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2388 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2390 New testing of emacs interface
2392 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2393 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2394 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2395 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2396 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2397 database via the FCC setting.
2402 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2404 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2405 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2406 persistent error of the form:
2408 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2410 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2411 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2413 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2415 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2416 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2417 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2419 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2421 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2422 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2423 parsing the notmuch results).
2425 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2427 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2430 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2431 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2432 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2437 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2439 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2440 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2441 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2442 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2443 the emacs interface.
2445 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2447 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2448 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2449 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2451 Python-binding fixes
2452 --------------------
2454 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2456 Debian-specific fixes
2457 ---------------------
2459 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2461 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2462 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2463 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2466 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2467 ==========================
2472 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2474 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2475 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2476 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2477 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2479 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2481 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2482 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2483 want notmuch to crash.
2488 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2490 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2491 directory does not exist
2496 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2498 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2499 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2501 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2502 ========================
2504 New command-line features
2505 -------------------------
2507 User-configurable tags for new messages
2509 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2510 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2511 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2512 to specify this value.
2514 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2516 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2517 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2518 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2520 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2522 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2523 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2525 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2527 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2528 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2529 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2530 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2531 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2534 Indication of author names that match a search
2536 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2537 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2538 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2539 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2540 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2541 messages in the thread are listed first.
2543 New: Python bindings
2544 --------------------
2546 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2547 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2548 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2549 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2551 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2552 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2553 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2556 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2557 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2558 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2560 Emacs interface improvements
2561 ----------------------------
2563 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2565 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2566 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2567 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2568 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2569 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2570 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2571 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2572 but without any of the disadvantages).
2574 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2575 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2576 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2579 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2580 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2581 instead running something like:
2583 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2585 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2586 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2587 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2590 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2592 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2593 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2594 tweaked by the user.
2596 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2597 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2598 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2601 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2602 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2603 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2606 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2608 This support currently relies on an external program,
2609 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2610 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2611 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2612 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2613 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2616 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2617 notmuch) is available via:
2619 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2621 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2622 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2623 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2625 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2627 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2628 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2629 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2630 making this automatic in a future release.
2632 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2634 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2635 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2636 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2637 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2638 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2639 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2642 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2644 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2645 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2646 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2648 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2650 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2651 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2652 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2654 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2655 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2656 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2657 other representation.
2659 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2660 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2663 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2665 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2666 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2667 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2669 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2670 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2671 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2673 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2675 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2676 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2677 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2678 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2679 to display the search result.
2681 More flexible handling of header visibility
2683 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2684 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2685 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2686 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2687 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2688 with the 'h' keybinding.
2690 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2691 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2692 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2694 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2696 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2698 Customizable formatting of search results
2700 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2701 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2702 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2704 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2706 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2708 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2713 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2715 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2716 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2717 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2718 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2724 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2726 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2727 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2729 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2731 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2732 accept are now all accepted.
2737 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2739 Better display of output from failed tests
2741 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2742 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2744 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2745 ========================
2747 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2748 detailed release notes this time!
2750 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2751 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2753 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2754 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2755 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2756 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2763 Better guessing of From: header
2765 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2766 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2767 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2768 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2769 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2772 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2774 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2775 guaranteed to match all messages.
2777 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2779 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2780 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2781 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2782 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2783 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2786 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2789 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2790 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2791 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2792 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2797 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2799 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2800 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2801 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2802 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2804 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2806 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2808 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2809 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2810 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2812 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2814 Previously, the user might see:
2816 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2820 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2822 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2823 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2824 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2825 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2827 Emacs client features
2828 ---------------------
2830 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2832 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2833 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2834 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2835 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2836 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2838 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2841 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2842 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2843 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2844 search with the '*' binding.
2846 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2848 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2849 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2852 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2854 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2855 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2856 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2858 Build-system features
2859 ---------------------
2861 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2863 Add support to configure for many standard options
2865 We include actual support for:
2867 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2869 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2871 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2872 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2874 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2875 separate "make install-emacs"
2877 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2879 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2880 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2881 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2883 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2886 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2887 ========================
2889 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2891 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2892 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2894 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2895 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2896 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2897 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2898 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2899 tags from messages in a thread.
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